To Locate the Light

Prayer of the week

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

-John 1:5

Darkness, Lord, haunts me
in the form of worry
in the form of forgetfulness
in the form of grief.

Each darkness is a shadow
of its holy origin—
the substance beneath the void—
I distort Trust into worry,
Knowing into forgetfulness,
Love into grief.
I sometimes bathe in these shadows,
unconscious of the light I have misused
to cast them.

Help me today, Lord,
to locate the light in each person,
in each circumstance,
in each moment,
and in myself—
to transmute worry into Trust,
forgetfulness into Knowing,
grief into Love.

Amen.

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