A LIVING PRAYER NEVER NEEDS TO BE SPOKEN OR PRAYED
SO MUCH AS EXPERIENCED AND SHARED
. . .Some transcend and do both
at the same time
like Rick,
my friend/colleague’s
honest scribbled prayer:

Rick proves that it doesn’t matter how you long you’ve been a hospice nurse so much as HOW and THAT you are a person of Caring; Rick’s prayer shows how it encapsulates anybody who is any kind of a caregiver in any capacity. He did for us what sometimes we can’t do for ourselves or others; he made sure that we could experience what our hearts shout and our mouths can’t begin to whisper and he put words to them. 
Can it actually be that simple:
KINDNESS/COMPASSION PERSONIFIED
It requires mostly just showing up. . .
We usually muck it up by calling
THE SHOWING UP
different things like
PRESENCE
or
SHARING SPACE
or
TONGLEN
— sadly just by labeling it,
naming it,
we incapacitate it;
we kind of negate it
because all of those things mean much more
than the words they try to define. . .
In fact, words can’t define them at all
but our actions do.  . .
There is no special training required,
certificates earned,
licenses obtained~~
nor neither is there any special equipment
tools
procedures
or how-to’s~~
just a willingness to be with another person
maybe when no one else can
or maybe even wants. . .
When you bring that kind of
WANT-TO
to Another,
you bring them much more than
prescriptions
injections
procedures
therapies
interventions
or plans of care. . .
Literally, by sharing your breath
by sharing your heartbeat
to One’s who no longer have the strength
or the ability to use their own,
you give what can’t be received
any other way
or by any other ways. . .
Self to Selves. . .
is more than some catchy call to action
at it’s very least
and way past it’s utmost best
BEING WITH ANOTHER
is a holy, hallowed act
that’s a religion unto itself
that never needs Words
Creeds
special holy days
Fasts
or a bowed head
with lightly shut eyes. . .
It only beckons
not merely
for open-eyed prayers
but a LIVING ONE. . .
Y O U R S
And here’s the secret:
WE ALL POSSESS IT
we just don’t always choose to
utilize
SHARE
i t
BEING
s h a r i n g
A Living Prayer makes all the difference in this world
and the one that is ever unfolding before all of us
in a blink of the eye quickness

A LIVING PRAYER NEVER NEEDS TO BE SPOKEN OR PRAYED
SO MUCH AS EXPERIENCED AND SHARED
SEE
BE
FREE
THAT in you;
in me
I PRAY. . .
A M E N