Holy Sophia, Mother Wisdom, through you I pray at this holy time of Epiphany, remembering the story of the learned ones from the East who came to visit the Christ child.
I pray for the kind of wisdom that is deep happiness, so that I may remain joyfully boggled by the shocking beauty of the natural world that surrounds me. I pray to remain blissfully awestruck with fascination at the people I encounter every day. I pray that my feelings of frustration will be moderated by deep gratitude that I am alive to feel anything at all.
I pray for the wisdom of attentiveness, so that I can be awake to the ways that I can show kindness to others. I pray for the wisdom of imagination, so that I can transcend the confines of problems in order to discover solutions, so that I can perceive beauty even in places where it seems absent.
I pray for the wisdom of humility, to know my small place in the grand order of things. I pray for an acute awareness of my constant state of ignorance, so that I will be eager always to learn more. I pray for the wisdom of humor, so that I can enjoy the comedy of my own errors.
I pray that your divine wisdom will be revealed to others, as well. I pray that the leaders of this country will be motivated by compassion and genuine curiosity, rather than by fear and predetermined ideology. I pray that the people of this world will act on the wisdom of solidarity, aware that we have so very much more in common than the few things that keep us apart. I pray most fervently for the wisdom of forgiveness, so that the future will not be determined by grudges from the past.
Dear Mother Wisdom, make each neural pathway in my brain, each subtle structure of my mind, each layer of my consciousness, into a channel through which your creative and reconciling energy can flow. Amen!