Want

You who effortlessly create without loss to Yourself-why is it that there is want and poverty, sickness and pain, poverty and want and starvation? It is like dying of starvation in a well-stocked kitchen or a fruitful garden. Why is it that you withhold that which you could so easily supply? What is it, You Giver of every good and perfect gift that you are giving us in our trouble and sorrow? What in loss and inequity and heart-wrenching visions of deep suffering is it that you want us to know, to experience, to share? For You only wound to heal. Teach me, teach us, to see You even in this dark time, when there seems no light at the end of the tunnel; when the foundations of what we thought we knew to be true are being shaken. Oh, let us see Your Hand at work. 1 31 09