Hurricane Prayers
Hurricane Prayers for Harvey
Between Harvey and Irma is the perfect time for Hurricane Prayers. So little time, just two weeks. And between Irma and Harvey is the perfect space for Hurricane Prayers. So little space, in the scheme of the Universe. No matter how many prayers we’ve said since Harvey first became a threat, since Harvey came ashore with record-breaking damages, another prayer won’t hurt.
Let’s rephrase that, another prayer will only help.
My circuit of praying began when Harvey was beginning to threaten from just inside the Gulf of Mexico. Then I prayed that it would weaken, become nothing more than a heavy rainstorm. As it neared landfall and even picked up strength and danger, I prayed that it would follow the most favorable (read, least destructive) path. We learned of the destruction of Rockport and Port Aransas, TX (where we’d spent four days three weeks before), and I prayed for quick return to normalcy for people in those two towns. Then it turned and paid Houston and Beaumont unwelcome visits with several days of incessant rain, and I prayed that the rain would end and the water would subside as fast as Divine Order ordered.
Hurricane Prayers for Irma
And now we’re between Harvey and Irma. At this moment, pummeling Puerto Rico and threatening the southern tip of Florida.
So now’s the time and we’re in the space to pray for what has happened, to pray for what may be ahead. Hurricane Prayers. And, yes, they are prayers for the hurricanes.
Like so many, many others I prayed ‘against’ Hurricane Harvey and it may seem it was to no avail. I don’t see it that way. That house pictured above with water to the roof is my brother’s, just outside of Beaumont. He called as I began to write this. They’d gotten into the house yesterday; all the water had drained away. His first words were, “We were crying last week; we’re happy this week. Life is a wonderful thing!” The water hadn’t gotten to their second floor. Although they’d not moved everything upstairs before they left by boat, a great deal was saved. They’d prayed and felt their prayers were answered.
So now I’m praying for the recovery, the replenishing of homes and lives of everyone who experienced loss because of Harvey. I claim that’s a prayer for Harvey, for returning to our wonderful life despite the destruction.
Now, too, I’m praying for the power of Irma and the path of Irma. Like before, I’m praying for it to expend its energy, for it to take the least harmful path, for it to spin and blow itself into just heavy rain and gusting wind.
Hurricane Prayers
Powerful Creator of Nature,
the damage of Hurricane Harvey remains
and will for a long time being removed from our sight.
We welcome the chance to affirm our certainty
that it will be removed, that life as we knew and loved it
will return with even greater peace and joy.
We thank you that no matter how much we lost, how much
we suffered, it was no more.
Maker of Winds, we charge our prayers with energy and intensity
and faith as we proclaim that Irma spend herself
perhaps in record time.
If it be your Divine Order, she may take the path of least destruction,
blow winds that do the minimum of damage,
drop rain that runs quickly, harmlessly into the oceans.
Pilot of All That Happens and All That Is,
we praise your power and the beauty of its expression
even while we affirm that we view its strength
and not feel its hostility.
So it is. And so we thank you, God.
Love and blessings,
6 September 2017
In: Affirmation, Happiness, Home, Inner Peace, Life, Peace, Prayer, Strength · Tagged with: Divine Spirit, Energy, Faith, Joy, Peace, Strength
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