breath into me...

the courage to make something new...
thank you for all the i forget gifts,
not rights.
forgive me for all the grievances
i remember too well.
save me from the self-pity,
the self seeking,
the fat-heartedness
which is true poverty.
guide me, if i'm willing,
(drive me if i'm not),
into the hard ways of sacrifice
which are just and loving.
make me wide-eyed for beauty,
and for my neighbor's need and goodness;
wide willed for peace-making,
and for confronting power
with the call to compassion;
wide-hearted for love
and for the unloved,
who are the hardest to touch
and need it the most.
dull the envy in me
which criticizes and complains life
into a thousand ugly bits.
keep me honest and tender enough to heal,
tough enough to be healed of my hypocrisies.
match my appetite for priviledge
with the stomach for commitment.
teach me the great cost of paying attention
that, naked to the dazzle of your back as you pass,
i may know i am always on holy ground.
breath into me the restlessness and courage
to make something new,
something saving,
and something true
that i may understand what it is to rejoice.

just a short prayer in a quiet tuesday evening for everyone out in the blogger world. nighty-
night...Godbless...and adios :P'.