Call and Response for Health Anxiety

Prayer for the Waiting

Lord, we are waiting on both the small and consequential
When we walk forward into the night woods
Hand on the cold bark of the trees
Let us sense a soft light, the next right step

This is the way to discernment, walk in it

The imaginary partition of the fellowship hall
When we’re lonely in a group of people
Protect us from self-othering
Let us love in the benefit of the doubt

This is the way to community, walk in it

When we turn in on ourselves

And want to fix instead of sit with affliction

Our hearts and minds want to be made new
Like pieces of crayon melted into tin molds

This is the way to healing, walk in it

In the blinding force of culture
That conspires against us as much as ourselves
Grant us sweet rest in your Holy Spirit

Your voice refreshing us when we turn right, left

This is the way, walk in it