The More I Know

“Just when we think we know what’s going on, or that we know all about some subject, we discover how wrong we are.  Humility is the grace that reminds us we know nothing at all, or not quite enough, or we just aren’t as right as we thought we were. The one truth we can count on is the more we know the less we know.”   ~Caroline Myss

These days I find myself praying and sending love and light to everyone in our divided country.  Yesterday as I held my hands open, this prayer came flooding through me. I see that the change I seek for our world always begins in me. 

Maybe you will see a piece of yourself in this as well. 

Oh Love, 

Quiet me down and gather me up as the memories flow through me of things I’ve gotten wrong, of things I thought I knew, of certainty that had me drawing lines and making declarations that today feel wrong but yesterday felt true. 

Oh, Grace, enfold me into you, that I may receive the comfort of hope that my mistakes and broken ties are not too great to keep me from you. May Love evaporate and dissolve the matter I’ve put into this world that has disrupted other souls or harmed another by the idea that I knew best.

Shame has wrung me out and left me lifeless on the ground, telling me the ways I have missed the mark.  It has accused me of the mistakes I’ve made by my lack of understanding, when I thought I knew so much.

Humility, may I abide in you, make my home in you always, never straying from your arms. Hold me tight, never let me go so I can always remember who I am. With you, I can continue learning more and seeking greater understanding so that I may travel this life of mine with more wisdom.

Forgiveness, breathe life back into me and hold me up so I may take another step. I remove my shoes and step onto the sacred ground that is this life.  And now I see every other soul as a fellow sojourner, full of dignity, and worthy of my curiosity and respect. 

Clarity, please help me remember all of this that is being shown to me now that I may stay near to you in all of my endeavors. Stay near that I may see.

Selah. May it be so.