Every day a prayer - one long continuous speaking to God, like the Eucharist prayer. Strange thought, because we think of prayer almost exclusively as supplication - "please give me something or do something for me." But prayer as communication with God - as sending back up to him our response to Creation, which he made us for, and made for us to have tangible knowledge of His love - resonates with me, or perhaps strikes me, like a mallet on crystal bells.
At every moment, God shows His love, the love that gives all, completely open-hearted and handed, with complete awareness of our flaws. "Lord I am not worthy" yet once I have awareness of my flaws, He is there, ready to heal and elevate me.
My daughter told me how the Japanese have a technique for mending broken pottery using gold to join the peices together, because even a broken vessel has beauty. That seems the best image for us broken humans and our relationship with our Creator - He can make perfect even the most shattered, using our flaws to make us even more lovely than we started.
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