Prayer #95: Magi Formula
Prayer #95: Magi Formula
The three wandering kings did not travel across a continent out of a sense of duty or obligation.
They did not leave their kingdoms because they liked stargazing.
They did not bring gifts to make a baby love them.
They sacrificed, and they risked, and they gave, because the reality of love incarnate compelled them.
That love is no less compelling or vital today. Yet I have no gold that befits royalty. I have no frankincense to waft to heaven. I have no myrrh to protect You in death. I have only me.
So please accept my one epiphany -- that I know and accept that You, my God, want nothing but me.
Let this truth direct my hesitant steps in hostile lands. Help me latch onto even a speck of light when I reach my darkest hours. May I return tenfold the gifts You've granted me -- not to make You love me, but to honor that You already love me.
Westward leading, still proceeding ...
Amen.