One’s simple prayer for two.
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Tears can’t help but fall now and Lord God, I pray, grant me fortitude to weather this melancholy deep within.
Lord God, I can only watch as they …my two fleeting companions… carefully, gradually leave my well beaten path to walk their own ways, to blaze their own trails, in pursuit of their individual destinies.
No words seem to come, as I desperately utter a prayer for each. No words, absolutely no phrases nor utterances at all. Merely thoughts, merely memories, and merely waning smiles remain. I can sense their exuberance, their joy, their passion for new things yet to come, and I can only respond by crouching in my feeble nest of bittersweet endings, and hopeful beginnings.
I am overly joyful for them, indeed unspeakably exultant for both, knowing they are far more equipped now, hoping they are far more ahead now, in the race for the prize which is none other than excellence and grounded, proper attitude, in every thing they do, in every small or great thing they may ever choose to pursue….with the clear knowledge that the only valuable reward is not worldly gain but the realization of the fullest potential of their worth.
I’d like to say I did my best Lord, that I run the mile for them, but then again, I can only pause and say I am not really sure now if I did run the much needed EXTRA mile for them. I know only time will tell, but I am confident Oh Lord, that only you will dwell, on such a prayer as simple as “run with them now, run with them for me from now oh Lord, for I can no longer run the race for… and with them.”
And as I keep to my bended knees tonight, may I just thank you for the blessing and the privilege of having been granted such obliging and supportive companions, albeit momentary, as I struggle and keep to my own race… to perfect my purposes… to carry out your desires and your intentions for me, each and every day, right here where you have so graciously planted me. Amen.
