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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

A prayer to untie the knots.


Dear Readers,
I received this from my cousin via email and thought I must share. What better way to share than via my blog.
Hmmmm.... blogger has made some changes and I guess temporarily (I hope) it is not possible to expand a photograph easily and read the words. So here they are:

THE KNOTS PRAYER

Dear God: Please untie the knots
that are in my mind, my heart and in my life;
Remove the have-nots,
the can-nots and the do-nots,
that I have in my mind.

Erase the will-nots,
may-nots,
might-nots, that may find
A home in my heart.

Release me from the could-nots,
would-nots
and should-nots, that obstruct my life.

And most of all,
DEAR GOD,
I ask that you remove from my mind,
my heart and my life, all of the 'am-nots',
that I have allowed to hold me back
especially the thought
that I am not good enough.
AMEN.

(Author known to God)

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Now isn't this truly beautiful? Have a nice week.
Best,
Lubna

5 comments:

Annie said...

Lubna, This is lovely, thank you for sharing. xoxo

Mary Lascelles said...

A great reminder about the "nots", Lubna! TY! ~Mary

ZIA - ZED CONCEPT said...

Hi Lubna - that is a very good post.
Thanks for sharing . May all the author's knots disappear.

Zia

Dilip said...

Hi Lubna,

That's a beautiful prayer. A great reminder to most of us to devote some time for prayer everyday. And to keep us connected to the Supreme Being.

The best way to untie all the knots in our mind!

Thanks for sharing!

Amy said...

What a great reminder (wait a minute, is there an echo in here? :) ... but it's true! It's a prayer I could use to pray more often.