Well God,
It seems like you blessed me by seeing to it that I was out of town for what promised to have been some clear displays of intolerance.
I thank you for that.
I so want to focus
on the beauty and joy around me
and although I know
the darker and unpleasant sides of life are around me
I do so much better emotionally and psychologically
when I can stick my head in the mountains as it were
and carry on just loving the beauty of the days you have made….
Yet somehow
I don’t think that beauty is all you would have me focus on …
with that I ask you
to help me find the best ways to be a force for good
in doing your work with the unpleasantness that surrounds us.
Ways that don’t compromise
my fragile well being that I struggle to maintain.
Amen.