A Prayer for All Saints (yesterday) and the day after (that’s today) -

Persistent God,

the words of Daniel’s vision -

  the four beasts are the four kings

  but the holy ones will receive and posses the kingdom -

ring with troubled relevance for today -

  who are these holy ones,

  and what is the kingdom they will receive?

Thank you for the elders and saints who have touched our lives.

We believe in your kingdom vision

of peace for the poor and health for the hungry.

Though our sins be as scarlet

may we find the strength to write this vision

even on the tablets of our hearts and lives.

Wait a minute – you are coming to stay at our house tonight?

Yikes!

Bonus haiku for today -

   Do to others as…,

   Do not unto others as…,

        Do for others as…...