“Have mercy upon them all, O Lord. Save them, the unhappy and the tormented. Guide them onto the path that is right for each one of them, according to Your wisdom. You are love. You will bring joy and happiness to all.”
...trudging into the distance in the bleeding stinking mad shadow of Jesus...the Lord out of dust had created him, had made him blood and nerve and mind, had made him to bleed and weep and think, and set him in a world of loss and fire... --Flannery O'Connor
1.01.2018
Alyosha's Prayer
At the end of a hard day when Alyosha, the main protagonist in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, has had to deal with the insanity and brokenness of his family and the world, he goes to bed one night offering up a simple and beautiful prayer. A prayer of grace for a confused, anxious and broken world:
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