Spoken Word - PEACE

If you can set aside a moment to listen to Sharon Irving’s recording of this spoken word that would be a gift you give yourself. Let the power of this prayer sink in.

Peace
Sharon Irving

You Lord are my channel of comfort

In boiling darkness

In frozen rain

When I am wired, rattled, pressured

Empty and too tense to find my way

Squeezed in on both sides

Ripped at the seams

Your hands, unafraid, reach down into the sludge of my humanity and I am made new

The promise of your presence peels from heaven

You are there

Infinitely aware,

When it's 3am

eye lids heavy

Dreading the dawn

Held perfect in your arms

You are here

Infinitely aware

Exposing to expel the the deception, the bought lies, mis steps and missed opportunities - that were really your grace keeping me covered, I was safe

With me, in and through the everyday

In the cool of morning

Late at night

Confused and crouched under the covers

Your steadfast love hovers over

Indeed you have called my essence fourth, complacency no more

And as you pour out your fragrant oil

I offer my filthy rags of righteousness, placing them on the floor, before you

I am renewed

So I conclude this must be Truth

Manifested

I am rested in your grip, forsaking the cup of my agenda, for I drink from it

My feet always slip

Daily I run to thee, sometimes I fall, sometimes I leap

But daily I breath, exhaling the debris

Finally a desperation that goes beyond mere meditation on what I should say or do, no

This desperation lingers in the air we breath

This desperation cannot be packaged or nicely wrapped fit inside your pockets, no

This desperation reaches the one whose thoughts are not our thoughts and whose ways are not our ways

See I sought the Lord, and he answered me

My tears, counts every one of them

When I drip down to nothing, You make something, saying over and over again

I am with you and all around you. I always behold you Face to Face. Not one of your thoughts escapes my notice

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and you shall hear my voice