Pastor’s Prayer: Holding Stories
The story of love gone sadly wrong
and the cruelty of the wounded;
the story of misguided innocence
and wrong roads eagerly taken;
the story of bitterness carefully hoarded
and an accountbook full of tears;
the story of pain uncomforted
and loneliness at the sticking place;
the story of grief unrequited
and the collapse of unrealized dreams;
the story of sanity stormed at the gate
and the sharp stab of personal betrayal.
Congregational life in all its sadness….