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Wishes for My Grandchildren
(5 Smooth Stones)
“Then David took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth
stones from the river, and put them in his shepherd’s bag….
and he drew near to the Philistine.”
1 Samuel 17-18
May you aspire to be holy trouble-makers,
distrusting bureaucracies,
confounding the doctrinaire.
May your hungers call you
to compassion,
your questions to humility,
May you nurture the living
and bury the dead,
may sturdy books guard your prayers
and the stones in your pocket
remind you
that the rivers you walk in
are the rivers you will become.
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