Dearly Beloved,
Grace and peace to you.
Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness
to be tempted by the devil.
He fasted forty days and forty nights,
and afterwards he was famished.
The tempter came and said to him,
“If you are the Son of God, command these stones
to become loaves of bread.”
But he answered, “It is written,
‘One does not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
—Matthew 4. 1-4
God, I confess
I want to turn these stones to bread.
I want to turn this prayer into piety,
this day, this life, into something else.
I want the power to make something
what it is not.
I will let the stone be a stone
and this moment be what it is,
and hunger hunger.
I let go of the illusion
of power to unmake what is
into what I wish.
Without judgment or willfulness
I will let each stone be its stone,
and most: myself what I am,
for only thus, not as I wish or fear,
but truly, do I know you as you are,
loving beyond my desire or imagination.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
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