A Prayer to Replace the Darkness

Mother, Father, God, I invite You and I invoke You into my heart
so that it may carry only love.
Mother, Father, God, I invite You and I invoke You into my mind
so that it may carry only peace.
Mother, Father, God, I invite You and I invoke You into my soul
so that it may carry only light.

Dear God, until today I have carried  in my heart
the heavy burdens of self-judgement and self-reproach.
Dear God, until today I have carried in my mind
the heavy burdens of chaos and turmoil.
Dear God, until today I have carried in my soul
pockets of darkness where I felt certain of my inferiority,
pockets of darkness where I felt I must remain hidden and silent,
pockets of darkness where I felt the absence of love.

Dear Mother, Father, God, I invite You into the places within my heart
that have long doubted the presence of Your love for me.
May Your loving compassion support and assure my heart today.
Dear Mother, Father, God, I invite You into the places within my mind
that have long carried shame, guilt, and fear.
May Your loving grace teach me to view myself as Your beloved and holy child.
Dear Mother, Father, God, I invite You into the places within my soul
that have long wished to feel Your embrace but could only bear witness to the pain.
May Your loving light seep into all the dark pockets of my soul that have longed for dawn yet felt only the chill of the night.

Dear God, please fill my heart, mind, and soul with Your infinite loving grace.
Dear God, please replace the darkness with Your infinite healing light.
Dear God, please replace the nightmares that roam through my mind with Your infinite peace.
Thank You, God. Thank You, God. Thank You, God.
Let this be so. And so it is. Amen.

#MeToo Prayer

    Today I am sharing a prayer I wrote in honor of the #metoo movement on the morning of October 23rd.     As a survivor myself, there is a certain kind of grief that fills my chest whenever a news-story mentions r*pe/sexual assault; I grieve for all my fellow survivors. So this morning when I woke with this weight on my heart, I came up with a prayer.

Dear Mother, Father, God, please fill this grief with love, light, grace, & peace. Dear Mother, Father, God, please fill this grief with love, light, grace , & peace until it overflows to all those who share this grief & shame with me. Dear Mother, Father, God, please comfort us with Your loving assurance, please embrace us with tenderness. Dear Mother, Father, God, please erase our fears, please erase our shame & guilt. Fill us instead with Your strength, Your power, Your infinite healing light. As we grieve & mourn our perceived powerlessness & loss of innocence, please dear God, fill our heavy hearts with Your love, light, grace, & peace. Remind us that our traumas can't separate us from Your love. Remind us that we are still perfect, whole, & complete. Remind us that nothing we experience is proof of having been abandoned by You. Fill our hearts, dear God. Fill our heavy hearts, dear God, with peace that surpasses all understanding. Asé. Aho. Amen. Let this be. And so it is.