Day 083x: Sleeping the usual unusual … (July 06, 2019)
As usual, I was once again offered a soft bed upon which to lay my head. And as usual*, I chose instead to find a more humble & solitudinous place to rest the same …
*Far more often I chose to do so to keep from inflicting my fellow pilgrims with my occasional bouts of raucous snoring, and yet on this night it simply seemed to be the properly humble thing to do.
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, you know better than myself that I am steadily growing older, and as such have indeed accumulated a handful of wisdoms in my days. As such, please keep me from becoming too talkative about them, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something unsolicited on every subject about which I might know a thing or two … And please release me from the idea that I must somehow – unless asked – repair other people’s problems or straighten out their affairs … And please grant me the patience to caringly listen to the complaints of others, while simultaneously sealing my own lips regarding my own aches and pains … Please give me more humility and less self-assurance regarding my own memory. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I might indeed be wrong … Please help me to remain gentle in all dealings with others, especially those who seem to least want or merit the same … And please let me discover others’ merits where I had not expected them, and talents in those whom I had not thought to possess any. And finally, Lord, give me the grace to remember my love for all this planet’s sentient beings, and grant me the strength to ever act accordingly … Amen.” ~ anonymous
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