a prayer for imagination.

Father, if i may say so,

if it makes any difference to You,

i don't want to care too much about my life,

about where i go,

or about what i do.

i want to be content to trust You,

to trust that i am following You,

to trust that You are leading me.

i want to be content to live a quiet life,

or a busy one if You lead me to it.

but Father, i don't want to end up

flowing down that main stream,

or any one of its seemingly infinite tributaries.

i don't want to take that straight, wide path.

i want to flow down the River of Life,

rapid as it may be, rocky as it may be,

full of "dangers" as it may be.

and i want to take the long, narrow, winding path

that leads to Righteousness and Everlasting Life.

Father, as i continue through this season of life,

on this particular stretch of path,

i ask for strength.

i ask that, in the empty moments,

in the menial hours,

in the darkness,

i might have not only peace,

not only patience and faith,

but that i might have divine energy,

courage and endurance,

humility and boldness,

and prophetic imagination.

[Thy Kingdom come,

Thy will be done,

on earth as it is in Heaven.]

O God, grant that wherever i might be,

and whatever i might do,

that i might live as Your child,

as a member of the mystical body of Christ,

as a citizen of the kingdom of heaven.

grant that i might be

an instrument of Your peace,

of Your grace and mercy,

of Your love,

and of the Spirit of the Hope of Redemption.