Sunday, May 10, 2015

Tefillat HaDerekh

Dear G!d,

Please get me there safe and help me with the transition.

Help me set my work aside and be present when it's time to be present, and help me relax my mind so that it can make space for each thing, even when it feels like there are too many things.

Help my body let go of its clenchedness and fatigue and help me find the energy to get more energy.

Help me to let go of commitments that don't deserve to be at the center, so that they make way for the work that's mine to do.

Help me ask for help and help me accept it when it's offered.

Help me to have the courage to walk into the dragon's mouth which is full of the flames of poetry and love and hope for redemption, personal, communal, and global.

Help me rest whenever I can and need to.

Help me to remember that it is You who opens up the path of least resistance, and that Your hands are human hands and human hands are Your hands.

Help me surrender to Your plans and let go of my own effort.

Help me let go of trying to return to You so that I can be free to walk towards You, fly towards You, fall towards You, swim towards You, learn towards You, love towards You, write towards You and voyage towards You.

Amennnnnnnnnn.