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Prayer inside the Wire

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Oh

God

We need you

As the song says

(sings)

Every day we need

You

Your presence matters

In the morning

All the hours

We are fortified

Knowing there’s something

More

Than us

And the world

And the hope we want

To have

In the universe

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Grant us

An audience through prayer

Much better communicating in

Heaven

We suppose

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But we reach out

As best we can

Here and now

And again there’s something

That responds

More words than our own

Sometimes the timing

Miraculocity

In change

The water parting

Unseasonably

Exactly when we need

Land to cross over

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Toward a promise

Provision

On the other side

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And then we’re there

On the other side of prayer

Build an altar

For remembrance

Pocket and snap the urgency

Of interest

Free now

For beholding

Many possibilities

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And rest

For being heard

Before we rise

And go

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We thank you

You are God

Not to make things splendid for us

All the time

But to give us

Moments

For our hopes

And fears

(all the years)

And for our chances

Before and after

Stretched out through the day

And in the night

(barring night shift

who will have the day)

Still

And still

For thoughts

Praying down

The day

The day to come

And now

The now in which we pray

And as it happens

Or is given

To the hearers

Whichever

Apparatus

Opened

And the rest

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God and the angels

Listening

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C L Couch

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Photo by Austrian National Library on Unsplash

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“I Need Thee Every Hour”

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“O Little Town of Bethlehem”

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