Lamentations 3:25–26 (NRSV)

The Lord is good to those who wait for him,

to the soul that seeks him.

It is good that one should wait quietly

for the salvation of the Lord.

I will wait with hope through the night.

John O’Donohue, from To Bless the Space Between Us

“This is the time to be slow,

Lie low to the wall

Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let

The wire brush of doubt

Scrape from your heart

All sense of yourself and your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,

Time will come good;

And you will find your feet

Again on fresh pastures of promise,

Where the air will be kind

And blushed with beginning.”

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Psalm 5:1–3 (NRSV)

Give ear to my words, O Lord;

give heed to my sighing.

Listen to the sound of my cry,

my King and my God,

for to you I pray.

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice;

in the morning I plead my case to you, and watch.

God hears what I cannot say.

Barbara Brown Taylor

“Prayer is not a production;

it is not something you perform or complete.

It is the practice of attending.

Sometimes to the stillness.

Sometimes to your own breath.

Sometimes to the ache that will not speak.

And always—to the presence of God,

who listens even when you forget to speak.”

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Romans 8:38–39 (NRSV)

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life,

nor angels, nor rulers,

nor things present, nor things to come,

nor powers, nor height, nor depth,

nor anything else in all creation,

will be able to separate us from the love of God

in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Even this is not beyond redemption.

Julian of Norwich

“All shall be well,

and all shall be well,

and all manner of things shall be well.

He said not:

‘Thou shalt not be tempted,

thou shalt not be travailed,

thou shalt not be afflicted.’

But he said: ‘Thou shalt not be overcome.’”

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