# @breyeschow on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CjIhSH6tLck
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18917038-breyeschow-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-09-30T13:49:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bruce Reyes-Chow (@breyeschow) — https://gondola.cc/breyeschow

## Caption

I am not sharing every Weekly Word*, but here is one inspired by the first verse of Psalm 37.

This prayer is a call to, not only avoid giving energy, focus, and even admiration to those who are sowing wickedness and evil in the world, but to trust in God along the way. This is a common refrain throughout scripture, that we leave final judgment to God. Sure, it might feel satisfying to play God. I for one, feel a deep relief knowing that ultimate judgment is not my responsibility to adjudicate. Being a kind, empathetic, and faithful person in the world is difficult enough without giving residence in my spirit to hate wickedness, and evil.

With a call to assess where our energy is directed, here is a prayer. 

WICKEDNESS

Do not make an energy offering to purveyors of wickedness
The land of your soul is not for the settling of evil
The soil of your mind is not for the planting of ambivalence
The field of your heart is not for the harvesting of hate

Instead, trust the Goodness that embodies hope
Let love acknowledge the dignity of all
Let empathy weave healing throughout the world
And let righteous anger hold injustice at bay

This we pray.
Amen. 

*Published each Wednesday morning on Patreon and made public on Friday morning, each Weekly Word is a prayer, poem, or musing inspired by current events of the world, the Sunday lectionary passages for Christian worship, and/or random ideas that the Spirit whispers in my ear :-)

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bruce Reyes-Chow | @breyeschow | https://gondola.cc/breyeschow | Writer/Author |

## Tags

prayer, weeklyword, brcweeklyword

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