Prayer for the Week of June 12, 2022
Heart of Love grant us all the beauty bestowed to those who are tender-hearted, who are kind past easy and compassionate past bravery. Let us all be so beautiful. Heart of Love grant us all the beauty bestowed to those who speak truth, especially to power, who persist when they’re unpopular, or threatened, or met with unkindness. Help us all be so beautiful. Heart of Love grant us all the beauty bestowed on those who make ends stretch towards each other even when there’s no way in hell they’re going to meet, and that there’s still effortful enoughness offered day after day to the children, the elders, the neighbors, the lovers, one’s self. Help us all be so beautiful and help those who are stretching that exhausting stretch. Heart of Love grant us all the beauty of those who are told repeatedly that they are lovable, but not like that, they have worth and dignity but only like this, just wedge one’s self in, suck it up, breathe more shallowly, move less, move more, feel this, feel that, eat this, eat that, refrain from eating for all that’s holy, the beauty of all those told repeatedly they are not enough when you know, Heart of Love, they are and we are. Move us to taking apart the assumptions and systems that insist there’s a best or right way to be beautiful and help us institute communities where all can be perceived with the beauty they are. Heart of Love may we appreciate beauty beyond conventions, beyond unjust laws, beyond our limitations that wound, and help us nourish, affirm, and care for each other, beautiful. This is a prayer for everyone beautiful, and that includes you. Amen.
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