Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Prayer of the Week


As a deer longs for flowing streams,
so longs my soul for You,
O Beloved.
My soul thirsts for the Beloved,
for the Living Water.

When may I come and behold
your face?

– Excerpted from Psalm 41
as translated by Nan C. Merrill
in Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness


See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
"More Lovely Than the Dawn": God as Divine Lover
"Then I Shall Leap Into Love . . ."
Prayer of the Week – April 4, 2011
Prayer of the Week – December 9, 2010
The Glimpse of His Face at Morning
The Soul Within the Soul
In the Garden of Spirituality – Hazrat Inayat Khan
Quote of the Day – November 16, 2011

Image: Michael J. Bayly.


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