A Prayer for our Humanity

by Rev. Dr. Amy Chilton on 02/29/24

As you encounter your own humanity this week, may you make space for God to work in God’s own time.

Blessings,

Pastor Amy

it is time for me

to see the flaws

of myself

and stop

being alarmed

 

it is time for me

to halt my drive

for perfection

and to accept

my blemishes

 

it is time for me

to receive

slowly evolving growth

the kind that comes

in God’s own good time

and pays no heed

to my panicky pushing

 

it is time for me

to embrace

my humanness

to love

my incompleteness

 

it is time for me

to cherish

the unwanted

to welcome

the unknown

to treasure

the unfulfilled

 

if I wait to be

perfect

before I love myself

I will always be

unsatisfied

and ungrateful

 

if I wait until

all the flaws, chips,

and cracks disappear

I will be the cup

that stands on the shelf

and is never used.^[1]