Prayer for Refuge with Ourselves

A Prayer for Refuge with Ourselves

 

Beloved, when we are anxious, frightened, weary, angry, confused, and alienated from our sense of being whole, of belonging, or of being enough, may we pause and breathe, creating spaciousness with you. May we create spaciousness that can be a refuge, a place to turn and return again that is happy at heart, that offers us the reassurance that we are already whole, just as we are, in all our complexities, illnesses, disabilities, differences, and variabilities. Beloved, may we put down the messages of the world that tell us we are not and can never be whole, or enough, or truly belong. May we sit and settle into the comfort and truth that we belong because here we are. We are enough even as we practice becoming more skillful, enough in our complex and varied ways of being. We are whole, even when we feel fragmented, whole even when we are most aware of loss, whole even when we are displaced from the world and life we loved and knew, whole because wholeness encompasses all these experiences and more. Wholeness is not synonymous with an absence of pain or difficulty or grief or failure or variability. Wholeness includes all of those experiences and more. We are more than the sum of our parts and the sum of our hurts, the sum of our pleasures and the sum of our questions. Beloved, may we breathe and return to this sense of wholeness, including all that is, and the assurance that we yet belong, are enough, and yes, are whole, and home in this wholeness. Amen.