Came across this fine prayer while visiting some other theo-bloggers (HT to http://shadowsofdivinethings.blogspot.com/).
Was taken with the honest acknowledgement of human weakness alongside the confident sense that we are made in God’s image, and in Christ, redeemable.
KIRKIN O’ THE TARTANS
In the morning light, O God,
May I glimpse again your image deep within me,
The threads of eternal glory
Woven into the fabric of every man and woman.
Again may I catch sight of the mystery
of the human soul,
Fashioned in your likeness,
Deeper than knowing,
More enduring than time.
And in glimpsing these threads of light
Amidst the weakness and distortions of my life,
Let me be recalled
To the strength and beauty deep in my soul.
Let me be recalled
To the strength and beauty of your image in every living soul.
J. Philip Newell, Celtic Benediction
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