A Weekly Centering Prayer for These Turbulent Times — For the Gift of Expansive Joy #LetUsPray let us pray — holy one, through the smoke and haze of global turmoil seeing, believing, and embracing joy is often difficult the weight of suffering around us is overwhelming and constricts our ability to believe in another way we feel shame, remorse, and heartache when we see abundance all around us for laughter, while others weep for plenty, while others scrape by for safety, while others run for cover for life, while others face death and for hope, while others despair yet, you remind us over and over again to rejoice in each day that you have made to see joy in hope and patience and that joy comes in the morning let us not hide and hoard the joys of life let our view of you not be narrowed by our despair and let us not turn inward while others reach out under the brilliance and beauty of your joy, give us the wisdom to navigate the complexities of life give us the courage to explore...