Prayer for Not Spending Holidays With People Who Harm You

a person is hiking in the woods on a foggy day

may you be blessed

with radical refusal
 
to be anyone but you
 
and may the blessing of your absence
yield abundant presence of your own truest self
 
yes, you go can forth on the journey
like Abraham
 
just as everyone else is reclining back and keeping their heads down
 
the ancestral movement away
has always and will always be prophetic
 
and your differences have always and will always carry you the whole reeling and redeeming way

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