Chosen Family Prayer

by The Devotional Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Thank you for the people who found one another deliberately: spare-key keepers, emergency contacts, holiday-table makers, friends who learned the medical words. Bless the families we inherit. Bless the families we build. Heal what can be repaired. Give safe distance where it cannot. Teach this church not to rank one faithful bond above another, but to recognize love by the care it practices.
63 words · 14 lines · Free Verse
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