"Our Slender Moment"--A Prayer for December 18, 2020
On the days, O God,
when we think our efforts to love are meaningless
against the vast, inky sea of meanness all around,
call to our minds the witness of Mary,
and how the mending of the entire universe hung
for one slender moment
on the “Yes” of a girl
too young to drive a car,
without her needing to know all of what that answer meant.
We have a hunch that this new day
will bring the choice to do some small thing
as a “Yes” to your way of love, too.
And before we give up
or decide it is all futile,
before we shrug it off
in apathy or despair,
grant us the wisdom and courage
to borrow her words in our slender moment:
“Here am I, the servant of the Lord. Let it be.”
Let this day be our next Yes to your way.
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