Safety, predictability, and uneventful calm are not the same as peace.
Wake us! Shake us!
Don't let us sleep too long.
Raise us! Restore us!
If once is not enough, touch us a second time.

 

Photo of the Grubb family graveyard, Arden, Delaware; image copyright 2009; prayer, 2012 by Danny N. Schweers. Prayer based on Mark 8:25; inspired by Keith Miller's 1968 book "A Second Touch"; and by "Wake Me, Shake Me," a song arranged by Al Kooper on the Blues Project "Projections" album of 1966.

 

 

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