REFLECTIONS, POEMS & PRAYERS
A Coronavirus Prayer
Every time I hear the word ventilator
I will weep with you,
Weary from sorrow,
Heart strained by love
A Coronavirus Prayer
-Written while praying for Ellen who is hospitalized in New York City with COVID-19, and reflecting on John 11
Looking at the world through eyes of compassion
Heart open wide to embrace what is broken
Seeing the beauty, tragedy, hope
Your beloved one is sick
Eyes welling up with tears
streaming down
growing puffy and red
How many days with the fever?
Chest tight, dry cough, struggle to breathe?
Weak, oxygen low
It’s time to admit
To the hospital
To the fear
To the loneliness
To the helplessness
To the desperate need for you
Yes, you wept
Wept with your friends
“See how you love her”
“See how you love him”
Every time I hear the word ventilator
I will weep with you
Weary from sorrow
Heart strained by love
This will be my prayer
Sharing your heart
Tender compassion
© Dale Gish 2020. All Rights Reserved.
This prayer was inspired by the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. If you are interested in praying the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius with me starting in September, please contact me.
Rogier van der Weyden -Descent From The Cross