Receive my love, O Beloved, You who
hear my voice and my supplication.
You incline Your ear to me, and
I call upon You with trust
both day and night.
When the snares of fear encompass me,
when the pangs of loneliness
envelope me,
I suffer distress and anguish.
Then I call upon You, my Rock,
You come to my aid,
Your strength upholds me.
Psalm 116:1-4 (Nan C. Merrill, Psalms for praying)
As said earlier in this series, we are all connected and belong to one another. Because of this connection, even if we aren’t feeling it ourselves in the moment, there are those who are, and so we can come together to express our fear, loneliness, distress, and anguish and call out to Our Beloved to come to our aid.
Let’s take these words of the Psalm from me to us and turn it into our prayer for today.
Receive our love, O Beloved, You who
hear our voices and our supplications.
You incline Your heart to us, and
We call upon You with trust
both day and night.
When the snares of fear encompass us,
when the pangs of loneliness
envelop us,
we suffer distress and anguish.
Then we call upon You, our Rock,
You come to our aid.
Your strength upholds us.