Prayer by Kyle Oliver for prayr.cc (CC BY 2.0)
Image: “Barnacles 5” by Thomas Quine via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
A prayer for letting go of the workday
O God, the day you unfolded before me
has left me with many questions.
I am a dish that needs to soak before scouring,
a muscle clenched and reclenched—
frozen but not stilled.
The questions I carry may be holy,
may be yours and mine together,
may unlock a mission or a universe.
But not tonight.
Let the working of these simpler hours,
and of your grace within me,
loosen their hold on my attention,
and restore their purchase on my imagination.
Amen.
Curator’s note: Shout-out to Kate McKey-Dunar, currently engaged in a year-long hospital chaplain residency. You too can commission a (Creative Commons) (P)rayer by joining on Patreon.
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João Voz E Violão by João Gilberto
Dunno why quiet guitar music sung in Brazilian Portuguese is my music for letting go of the workday, but so it is.