Gather Me to Be With You
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Holy Spirit, gather me now to be with you as you are with me.

Soothe my tiredness;
¡@Quiet my fretfulness;
¡@¡@Curb my aimlessness;
¡@¡@¡@Relieve my compulsiveness;
Let me be easy for a moment.

Holy Spirit, release me
¡@¡@¡@from the fears and guilts which grip me so tightly;
¡@¡@¡@from the expectations and opinions which I so tightly grip,
that I may be open
¡@¡@¡@to receiving what you give,
¡@¡@¡@to risking something genuinely new,
¡@¡@¡@to learning something refreshingly different.

Holy Spirit, gather me to be with you as you are with me.

Forgive me
¡@for claiming so much for myself
¡@¡@that I leave no room for gratitude;
¡@for confusing exercises in self-importance
¡@¡@with acceptance of self-worth;
¡@for complaining so much of my burdens
¡@¡@that I become a burden;
¡@for competing against others so insidiously
¡@¡@that I stifle celebrating them
¡@¡@¡@and receiving your blessing through their gifts.

Holy Spirit, gather me to be with you as you are with me.

Keep in touch with myself,

¡@with my needs,
my anxieties,
my angers,
my pains,
my corruptions,

that I may claim them as my own
rather than blame them on someone else.
¡@

Holy Spirit, deepen my wounds into wisdom;
shape my weaknesses into compassion;
gentle my envy into enjoyment,
my fear into trust,
my guilt into honesty,
my accusing fingers into tickling ones.

Holy Spirit, gather me to be with you as you are with me.

 

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