You are my shepherd.
Not my fears. Not my desires.
Not the machinations of my ego.
Not my group and its partisans,
my nation, my party, my church.
You alone lead me in your path:
not the path of being right,
but the path of loving.
Help me to discern your leading.
Grant me the humble attentiveness
to see you loving, and to join you loving,
to love and to forsake all other ways.
Grant me the courage to follow,
even through the darkest valley.
I follow you, like a lamb;
and following me
come goodness and mercy.
Breath prayer: Shepherd me … in love
—May 1, 2017