Prayer/Meditation - May Sarton

The angels, the furies

Are never far away

While we dance, we dance,

Trying to keep a balance,

To be perfectly human

(Not perfect, never perfect,

Never an end to growth and peril),

Able to bless and forgive

Ourselves.

This is what is asked of us.

It is light that matters,

The light of understanding.

Who has ever reached it

Who has not met the furies again and again?

Who has reached it without

Those sudden acts of grace?

- May Sarton