This week, let’s continue with our theme of doing something a little bit different.
We’ll return to our normal format next week, but today I thought I would share another favorite poet with you.
David Adam writes blessings and poems and prayers in the Celtic style, and his book Tides and Seasons is a welcome companion with beautifully-written verses to see you through all kinds of situations. Like John O’Donoghue, whom I’ve referenced before, Adam knows how to tap into the sweet simplicity of faith in the everyday.
I think it’s pretty clear that we’re all a little raw. There are so many reasons to be: global, national, local, and personal. But prayers like this one can help us to remember that God is in, around, and before us. And we can lean on Him no matter what may come, knowing that the tide will turn. All we have to do is wait.
Until the Tide Turns by David Adam Lord, I wait for the tide to turn Until the distant becomes close, Until the far off becomes near, Until the outside is within, Until the ebb flows. Lord, I wait for the tide to turn Until weakness is made strong, Until blindness turns to sight, Until the fractured is made whole, Until the ebb flows. Lord, I wait until the tide turns Until the ordinary becomes strange, Until the empty is Presence-full, Until the two become one. Until the ebb flows.
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