Just A Simple Little Prayer

Dear God,

Are you there? I just want to talk to you for a moment. I only need a few minutes of your time, I know you're busy. You see, there's a lot of fear down here. People's souls are being trapped within their own minds under a bed of rusty, old nails that point in every which way. Where there isn't a nail, there is a mine. You escape the nails only to step on a mine which shatters your hopes and sets a flame to your dreams. It took years for those dreams to be built and only seconds for them to be engulfed in a red and orange sea of flames. It's like a war zone and we're all left in a million little pieces. People are scared, God. The fear in people's eyes sends a searing pain through my heart, almost like I can feel every emotion they have held hostage for all these years. I cry tears of acid rain that burn my flesh. Hot on my skin, trickles of a sticky red substance bleed in crooked lines painting a river along a snowy path. This prayer is for anyone who is sad.

Make their pain disappear. Set their disillusions on fire and let them soar higher so that they can be free to just live and let their hearts sing like a choir. You know those traditional sky lanterns that get released into the sky at weddings and special celebrations? And the sky gets lit up with thousands of little lights that shine for the world to see? That's kind of how I imagine it happening. We're all bursting at the seams, God, desperate to be loved, secretly just wanting one person to understand us like You do. There is so much evil here God, so much hatred. If it's not too much trouble God, can you please just be here with us? Sit with us, listen with us, talk with us? Come into our hearts and give us strength, enough strength so that we can all be unbroken? Give us the courage to never give up and open our eyes to the real beauty of life. Cleanse our souls of everything that is wrong and fill us up again with everything that is right. I know there are a lot of bad people out there, but there's a lot of really good people too.  And if you find anyone along the way that needs a friend, please feel free to send them my way.

Thanks God. You rock.