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nugget of nourishment
Hear this prayer by Kate Bowler titled, "Love, love, love."
Lord, the shadowed world
is full of troubles.
So give me the good,
inconvenient work of love.
Link my life to others
so that their worries become my own.
Give me errands I don't want
which ease the burdens of others.
Divert me from the plans I've made
to zip from A to B
when you have better ideas.
Put my hands to work
with a less-grumbling heart
and let their dreams drift into my own.
You've given me tools to use
and ideas to fashion
that will bring me neither recognition,
nor money, nor praise.
You've made love such a sneaky thing.
The more we love as you do,
the less we are keeping track of it at all.
Amen.
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