Friday, May 4, 2012

A Prayer for Friday, May 4, 2012

Touch

Effective, helpful, and appropriate touching is a very important art, given that a well-timed and well-intentioned touch can have healing power and that a badly-timed and badly-intentioned touch can have hurting power; so please give us the ability to touch artistically, O God.

Bless us with the art of touching someone when they are hurting so that your love, grace, and compassion can be communicated to them through us.

Bless us with the art of not touching someone when our hearts are not really in it, when they need something else from us, or when we are motivated by a desire to feel good about ourselves rather than by a desire to help them feel better.

Bless us with the art of accepting the helping touch of someone else who reaches out to us in love—an art which for some of us is harder to develop than the art of offering our touch to someone else. Then, help us to pass the touch we have received on to someone else...

Amen.

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