Awake

Lord, let me be awake to your constant guidance, hearing the way you murmur to me night and day, the way you sing to me through all songs, the way you speak to me through all voices.

Lord, let me be awake to your signs, seeing your wonders, your signals, your messaging. From all the billboards and screens and devices of all the lands, you speak to me. You speak to me.

Lord, let me be awake to your healing grace, alive to your light of sheer love and oneness, your universal kindness and compassion. In all smiles, in all generosity, in all helpfulness and hopefulness, you share yourself with me.

Lord, let me awaken to your invitation: Help me see what load I might lighten for another, what help might be shared through me, what gladness might pour forth thanks to what you accomplish effortlessly and gracefully through me, despite my own awkward elbows and knees. Lord, thank you for those elbows and knees; and thank you for letting them not bump anyone along the way, including even me.

Lord, let me be alert to your blessings, which are showering down upon me always. Let me adore your abundance everywhere: in material blessings, yes, and in uncountable needles of pine trees, tousled hairs of a sleeping baby, and wrinkles of laughter around an elder’s eyes. Let me be open to your grace. Let me receive and absorb your shining gifts, that they might be shared through me.

Lord, let me be your prayer in motion, attuned to your dancing light on water, to your waves of laughter, to your outrageous good humor, even in hospital waiting rooms, even in mail we don’t want to receive. Let me shine as your life, consciously greeting your life in all beings, reminding myself and all: it’s all ok, it’s all sacred, it’s all beautiful, even when it’s not beautiful, even when it’s not ok, even when it’s not apparently very sacred at all.

Lord, let me be awake always to your grace, so that even when I sleep, I sleep as your awakeness resting in me, rejuvenating me to rise again and shine in another new day.

With my whole heart, with wholeheartedness itself, Amen.