O Infinite Father, you maintain collectively all issues by your phrase.
You’re creator of all of the dwelling and uphold them in your hand.
By your very breath you maintain;
You carry humanity.
It’s a holy and heavy activity you will have granted me—
to take care of and lift your littlest and most susceptible ones,
my youngsters.
My coronary heart is burdened and my thoughts overwhelmed.
Once I have a look at the world I discover no peace.
There may be battle and famine and illness
Risks and accidents
Lots of upon 1000’s upon thousands and thousands
of potentials to hurt to my youngsters.
Every lurking within the shadows like a lion
ready to pounce and devour.
My ideas are reeling
in an try
to anticipate
and avert
every
risk.
Once I have a look at myself I discover solely despair.
I do know the darkness inside that seeks to eat.
I look to my very own power to carry my youngsters’s lives
to take care of their each want
to bear their each burden
I see the weak spot of my very own thoughts, coronary heart, and physique.
My soul can’t carry what’s requested of me and what’s wanted by them.
Once I have a look at them I see such neediness.
They’re absolutely dependent the second they arrive into this world.
With no mom to nourish or nurture
With no mom to hold and maintain
With no mom to relaxation upon and discover consolation in
My spirit can’t bear this weight.
However o my gracious Father, let me look to you!
Let me, your very youngster, relaxation in you as my Father simply as my youngsters relaxation in me
Let me discover my nourishment from the knowledge of your phrases
Let me discover consolation in your bosom the place you maintain me
Let me know dependence on you, the sustainer of my life and my youngsters’s lives—
the burden of life is rarely mine to bear.
My fear and the ache of my coronary heart
My anxious ideas and failing physique
My pains and greedy
won’t ever add even a single day to my youngster’s life—
their life has at all times been absolutely in your mild hand.
The world and its horrors are ever current
however by no means mine to hold and ship.
Could I belief that you simply work to result in each goodness
on this planet
in my life
in my youngsters’s lives.
As I have a look at you, my Father, will you prepare my thoughts
to seek out its peace in you
to seek out its power in you
to seek out its hope in you.
First printed in Calla Press’ printed spring journal.
Copyright © 2024 Christina Snyder.