Sandro Botticelli – Adoratia magilor
We are a broken, divided family
of lonely individuals,
each alone;
truly, we are not a family.
Communication with each other
seems impossible,
and love vanishes into the void.
Yet both are what we desperately need.
We all need
and want each other,
but we’re too proud to admit it,
or to confess
that we’re each to blame
for our separation,
loneliness and pain.
We add brick upon brick
to the wall that divides
and isolates us.
You alone are our hope,
O God of our salvation.
Your love breaks down
walls that isolate and divide us
Your love heals, forgives,
and makes us whole again.
Restore us, O God of our salvation.
Reconcile us,
that we may be a family,
and live.
Amen.
(A prayer of Vienna Cobb Anderson)
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