Children’s Story
Elder’s Prayer
Sometimes It Just Seems to Be Too Much
Sometimes, Lord, it just seems to be too much:
too much violence, too much fear;
too much of demands and problems;
too much of broken dreams and broken lives;
too much of war and slums, illness and dying;
too much of greed and squishy fatness and the sounds of people devouring each other and the earth;
too much of stale routines and quarrels, unpaid bills and dead ends
too much of words lobbed in to explode and leaving shredded hearts and lacerated souls;………
too much Lord, too much!
Or is it too little,
Too little of compassion,
Too little of courage, or daring
Of persistence, of sacrifice;
Too little of music and laughter and celebrations?
O God,
Make of me some nourishment for these starved times,
Some food for my brothers and sisters who are hungry for gladness and hope,
That, being bread for them,
I may also be fed and be full.
Amen
From Guerrillas of Grace by Ted Loder
Shared by Kathy Hamrick