Wingless Flight. Wordless Sound.
O My Father, I have moments of deep unrest -- moments when I know not what to ask by reason of the very excess of my wants.
I have in these hours no words for Thee, no conscious prayers for Thee.
My cry seems purely worldly; I want only the wings of a dove that I may flee away.
Yet all the time Thou has accepted my unrest as a prayer.
Thou has interpreted its cry for a dove's wings as a cry for Thee, Thou has received the nameless longings of my heart as the intercessions of Thy Spirit.
They are not yet the intercessions of my spirit; I know not what to ask.
But Thou knowest what I ask, O my God. Thou knowest the name of that need which lies beneath my speechless groan.
Thou knowest that, because I am made in Thine image, I can find rest only in what gives rest to Thee; therefore Thou hast counted my unrest unto me for righteousness, and has called my groaning Thy Spirit's prayer. Amen.
Rev. George Matheson (1842-1906)
(Picture acknowledgment: wings_of_WHAT_IF_by_messa)
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