Today's sketch prayer is inspired once more by Emily M. D. Scott's new book For All Who Hunger. Its beautiful stories tell of giving birth to St. Lydia's church in Brooklyn, and the powerful practices of church over dinner.

"In a city of glimmering lights and cracked sidewalks, every soul, whoever they may be, in an unguarded moment when their children are sleeping in bed, or when they hear the subway rumble deep underground, or when they catch sight of the skyline pink and flushed at twilight, will allow the brusque manner or affected laugh to slip away from their shielded hearts and remember, as if in a dream, that there is something they are searching for that they have not yet found.

They know that the rope has frayed and snapped, and that they, just like me, are in their own small wooden boats, lost on the sea.

I couldn’t bear to feel like we were drifting away from each other, carried apart on the deep. So I set tables, hoping we could all find our way home."

Emily M. D. Scott

And my sketchprayer in response

Thank you, God
For holy voices
Calling again and again
Helping us all
To find our way home.
Amen

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