A BLESSED EPIPHANY - a prayer

 

THE MAGI

 

A PRAYER FOR EPIPHANY

 

Jesus,

We offer you the gold of our desire to love,

    even though our hearts are often cold;

We offer you the incense of our longing to prayer,

    although our spirits can be luke-warm;

We offer you the myrrh of our frustrations and troubles,

    even when self-pity and bitterness creep in.

 

Receive and make good our gifts

out of your great love for us,

and grant that we, like the wise men,

may find some knelling-space at Bethlehem.

 

(from A.A. in THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND PRAYERS, compiled by Ashley Ashwin)