Prayer to Winter God

God of Hidden face

I have been so angry

at your coldness.

I want to welcome you home.

But you won’t come.

We used to be friends.

That was when you came to me

in just the right amounts.

But now, you are too much for me.

It will take a warmer heart than mine

to hear a snow-covered gospel.

But oh, God of thawing moments,

when I allow you

to melt my frozen life

I reconsider.

My vision returns

and I know that if I am your friend

only when you come in the right amounts

then I am no friend at all.

Winter God

God of hidden face you are not always spring

but your unconditional love

has touched my thawing heart

and made it warm again.

I am not always present to you

in the right amounts either.

Yet never have I returned

to you,

and found you

not there.

O God of unconditional love

it is an iced-in message

you are asking me to listen for

You are not always spring.

Written by:  Macrina Wiederkehr

A Prayer from "Thoughts in Solitude" by Thomas Merton

"My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always, though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone."