"Inscribe Your Ways"--A Prayer for December 3, 2020
Now we see it, God—
that it was a lifetime of listening
to the stories of the ancestors
and the dreams of the prophets
that led Mary to say her “Yes”
when you called to her.
It was the ancient songs of Hannah and Miriam
which she had heard a thousand times since childhood
that inspired her own anthem of praise
for your revolutionary table-turning reign.
The dramatic decisions were long in coming,
the groundwork laid as your word shaped her,
steeping in her teenage mind like tea,
shaping her like the slow erosion of a river on the canyon.
Inscribe your ways on these stony hearts, too, O God,
so that those stories and dreams and songs will form us, too,
into people who say “Yes” to your upside-down ways.
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