You have taught us through the lives and words of many messengers that we are your children. Those same messengers have exhorted us to love each other as we love ourselves and to treat others as we would want to be treated. As your children, we have to admit that we don’t often treat your beloved messengers kindly. Their radiance frequently hurts our eyes and, in our ignorance, we fear it or are jealous of it, eventually dousing it. The contrast between their lives lived in your Light and ours too often lived in darkness is too stark. Thank you for not giving up on us. We thank you for continuing to send into our midst those who, just by breathing, enlighten our minds and illuminate our hearts with their blinding brilliance.
Such a messenger is Michael Jackson, Lord … breathtakingly beautiful … enormously God-gifted … divinely inspired … endlessly compassionate and loving. With his unquenchable desire to heal us and our world, he was a gift for which we were insufficiently grateful when he walked among us. Please accept our gratitude for his life and for his example, now, Lord. Thank you for allowing us to witness his star as it blazed across our sky in shining, sparkling brilliance. To those of us he left behind, his star flamed out too soon. We thank you for instilling in us faith that all is proceeding according to Your Plan. We thank you for allowing him to continue to enlighten us … to inspire us … to speak to us … to remain close to us, even as we mourn his absence.
Eternal Mother, many of Michael Jackson’s followers are hurting. They continue to reel in disbelief that our Beloved One could be snatched from our arms without preamble … without warning … without saying goodbye. Many are floundering in anger at those who persecuted him during his time with us and resentment against those involved in any way in taking him from us. Some dream of vengeance against the man (or men) that ended his life much too soon. We pray that the healing balm of your love, which was so well-personified by him throughout his life, may coat their hearts with the health of forgiveness. We thank you for giving solace to the inconsolable, faith that he continues to live in Your love to those who doubt and determination to follow in his footsteps to those paralyzed by his absence so that they may shine their lights, as he shone his, and focus on healing themselves and the world.
We thank you, Heavenly Father, for the reversal in the tide of negativity that dogged your beloved son’s steps while he was bound in his physical incarnation. Recent testimonies by his influential friends begin, at long last, to present a more accurate portrait of him. Michael always said, “Lies run sprints while the TRUTH runs marathons.” We pray that this reversal continues and we thank you for allowing TRUTH to, finally, win the marathon.
We pray these things in the name of Your Beloved Son, Jesus … and in memory of His beloved messenger, Michael Jackson.
Amen
Copyright © 2011 by Jan Carlson
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