Three Prayers

    Source and Center

Source and Center, Goal and Way

Friend and Lover, hear us pray

Keep our minds and bodies still

Let your Holy Spirit fill

The sacred silent empty place

Where we meet you face to face

         Grief's Gift

Thank you God for love I've lost

For love is worth the pain it cost

For giving me this heart to feel

The gift of grief that you reveal

          Baptism

To you, O God, my face I turn

Out in this desert stark and hot

I pray that I might here discern

Who I am from whom I'm not

And when you make my mission clear

Lead me to the river wide

And while your Spirit hovers near

Cleanse me from my spite and pride