Offerings

 May the strength of God pilot us

May the wisdom of God instruct us, 

May the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us;

        Be always ours this day and for evermore.  

St Patrick    

Whatever I have beholden

to beauty,
taken into the curves
of attention as offering,

may it be like a child
leaping from the lap of joy
into the sheets of light
strung through our hanging hours;

may it be like the work-worn
hands of women
opening the pins of rest
from the lines of darkness;

may it be like our old hearts
speaking a broken language of hope
in the country
of despair;

may it be like hands
joining
down the long pews
of peace;

may it be a song flung
into the incorrigible,
 huddled wood
of our loneliness;

may it be love
billowing through the folds
of one another,
into the gift of you, Lord.