Make Me Like the Moon

Make me like the moon, O Lord.

Dust — hidden in darkness,

when Your Light does not illumine me.

Keep me in the company of Your stars,

and not lost in the midnight ocean between them.

Let my heart be ever fixed upon Your Light, O Lord.

Keep me in Your orbit.

Have mercy upon me.

Heal my sickly soul.

And when the Sun shines,

let not the earth of my being

stand between us.

O Lord, make perfect the darkest corners of my soul —

as You have made the craters of the moon:

inseparable from its beauty.