"Listen, stand up in prayer during the night for you are a candle and at night a candle stands and burns."  Rumi

    I pray to be a candle burning brightly for you.
   I pray to stand like a candle with an eternal light.
   I pray to not stand in darkness.
   I pray to call in the light for me and for you.

  Out there in the distance I see you somewhere burning brightly.

  Amen.

"At last you have departed and gone to the Unseen
what marvelous route did you take from this world." Rumi


  I want to know the world of the soul
  I want to see it, taste it, touch it.
  It's no good just imagining it.
  I pray to know you are all right.
  I pray to know there's nothing to fear for you.
  I pray for you to be like a golden star
   living eternally in a soul sky.

   Amen.

I pray for continued guidance to a land where worries fade and joy has a new name.

Amen.

Peace be with you.... and with me.

  Sometimes I didn't say or do the right thing.
  Sometimes I was selfish, thinking only of what I wanted to do.
  Sometimes I was careless, sloppy in word and deed.
  Sometimes I was angry and fear took over.
  Sometimes I went away too long.
  Sometimes I didn't appreciate what I had.
  Sometimes I watched you work while I stood by.
  Sometimes I was afraid to talk to you.
  Sometimes I didn't say what I meant.
  Sometimes I brushed you off at times I feel now it was important to have responded.
  I don't know why I did all these things.
  And nothing I do or say now will change them.
  Forgive me. For everything.
  Forgive me, for my weakness and my selfishness.
  Forgive me for my inadequacies.
  Forgive me for my imperfection.
  Forgive me for my lack of courage.
  Forgive me for all my flaws and missteps.
  I loved you through it all.
  I love you still.
  I pray for you each morning with all that I know how to pray with.
  I pray to a God I can't see or know.
  I pray to a Source I don't understand.
  I pray that whoever took you from me
  Keeps you safe and peaceful.

   Haiku/ September 26, 2010 East River

     Strong rays of light come
     A lifting of the dark clouds
     Temporary sun.

"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love.
 where there is despair, hope, where there is darkness, light, where there is sadness, joy.
 O Divine Master, grant that I may not seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love, for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life."  St Francis of Assisi

  Your favorite prayer, now mine too.
   I recite it by heart. I say it for you.
   I love you and live for your eternal life,
   and for my eternal life.
  I pray each day for you.  You are in the heart of my heart.
          Amen.

   Somewhere over the rainbow

  "Love has thousands of names, millions of faces.  It will give you everything and ask for only one thing in return - that it may come and wear your face, that you will let it use your name." Daphne Rose Kingma

     I pray to take the love you gave me, give to me, and see it in everyone and in everything.
     I pray to bless everyone with your love for me and my love for you.
     I pray to walk in love, to be love.
     I pray to not let sadness carry me away, far from love, but to only bring me closer.

     I pray for your soul. 
     wherever it is over the rainbow....


    Amen

Morning Glory2

I don't know what to pray for
I want you back
that's not going to happen.
I pray for your spirit, everyday.
maybe spirits don't need our prayers
I don't know.
I speak to the Divine and ask that you are taken care of...
in whatever ways souls need care.
We cared for you with our love
and you knew it.
and appreciated it.
You were our love.
You are our love.

For myself:
 I pray just to live,
 to not waste this life you gave me.

Peace be with you
and also with me....

Amen.