Prayer to Find Joy

Lord God, give me joy.

Allow me to find it where it is:

in the song of a bird seen from my window,

in a flower that shows the tip of its nose,

in the smile of a child led away by his or her mother,

in all that lives and, above all,

in prayer where I hear you speak to me.

(Lamarche, Denise, My Book of Prayers, Montreal, CND, 2020)