An Awakening Prayer

An Awakening Prayer

For too long we've been asleep in the light.
For too long we have sought shelter in control
Hiding, Sleepwalking,
We stumble, over you
Slumbering through life.
For too long we've been blind while seeing
Deaf while hearing.

Awaken us. Awaken us,
O You who love us.
You who are ever with us
May we find ourselves in you
within us.

Wake us, May we see
without and within
in a thousand different ways.
In the stars at night
In the songs of life
In the winds and trees
In the flowers at our feet

Shinning through the fabric of all creation
May we see the eternal behind its temporal forms

Awaken us, O Christ
into the grand mystery
of your presence
Within us, awakening in you.

Open the eyes of our heart
to see eternity
Open our ears to hear
your quickening voice.

Give us a heart of wisdom
that we might cross the threshold
into the full unfolding of your living presence
that we might know ourselves in you
that we might dance together in the winds of heaven
on earth.

~ Bob Holmes #comeintothequiet