Teach us how to weep while we wait, and how to hope while we weep

Walter Brueggemann

No wonder the prophet weeps yet —
We begin again but not innocent...
And we feebly watch for you and wait.
Teach us how to weep while we wait,
and how to hope while we weep,
and how to care while we hope.

~ from "Teach Us How To Weep" in AWED TO HEAVEN, ROOTED IN EARTH: PRAYERS OF WALTER BRUEGGEMANN

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God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

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~ Rainer Maria Rilke, "Let Everything Happen" in RILKE'S BOOK OF HOURS: LOVE POEMS TO GOD