From Hart to Hearts
Ten Years Later: A Prayer for 9/11
after remarks by Randy Becker
This day is like any other day,
except that it isn’t.
The sun rises, people wake,
water boils,
there’s coffee and tea,
porridge and toast,
a full cooked breakfast perhaps.
We look out on the day and wonder what might
come of it.
This day is like any other day,
except that it isn’t.
Ten years ago,
the buzz of a huge city
was brought to a crashing halt.
Planes and smoke and terror,
the mad attempt to save
this one or that one,
anyone who could be saved.
Glass and steel shattering,
lives disintegrating,
as it fell into twisted
horrific history.
This day is like any other day,
except for the terrible
memories,
the cancers that linger,
the grief that will
never
end for some.
And this day is like any other:
we wake, and hope for the best,
we wake, and say a little prayer:
May all be well.
May the grieving find comfort.
May the afflicted feel care,
be healed in whatever way healing can come.
May those filled with anger find peace,
may the violent find peace,
may we all find peace.
This day is like any other,
and our prayers are still
as they are everyday,
as we seek to open in compassion for all beings,
as we hold a vision of peace and comfort and love
for the world, so weary, so weary.
It’s just today, like any other day, except that it isn’t quite,
we remember a little more,
and pray a little harder,
‘never again, we pray, never again.’
So may it be.
~ Rev Linda Hart