The Art of Gentle Revolution

The week’s “Prayer of the Week” is taken from Michael Leunig’s 1990 collection, A Common Prayer.

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God help us to change.
To change ourselves and to change our world.
To know the need for it. To deal with the pain of it.
To feel the joy of it. To undertake the journey
without understanding the destination.
The art of gentle revolution.

Amen.

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
"To Enhance Our Delight" by W.L. Wallace
"A Pentecost Prayer" by Brigid Mary Meehan
A Prayer for International Day Against Homophobia
Prayer of the Week (May 10, 2010)
Prayer of the Week (May 4, 2010)
"A Prayer for Others" by Terry Oakley
Prayer of the 2010 Synod of the Baptized
"A Morning Prayer" by Albert Nolan, OP
Karl Rahner on the Need for Prayer
"A Springtime Prayer" by Joyce Rupp
Letting Them Sit By Me
"For the Traveler" by John O’Donohue
"It Happens All the Time in Heaven" by Hafiz

Image: Michael Bayly.