Invocation
O God, hear this prayer I cast
into what I hope are not
the empty shadows
of my own naked need.
Teach me to reach out to you
as you are: beyond all my comfortable concepts,
beyond the frontiers
of my vision and capacity.
To enter into silence to seek you,
despite my fear of finding nothing but my own heartbeat.
To stand in midair,
and somehow not fear falling.
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1989