Bless What Eludes My Grasp

Lord, so many things skitter through my mind,
and I give chase to gather them
              and hold them up in a bunch to You,
but they go this way and that
              while I go that way and this...

So, gather me up instead
and bless what eludes my grasp but not Yours:

...Lord, the people ...bless the people:
              birthday people,
                            giving birth people,
                                          being born people;
              conformed people,
                            dying people,
                                          dead people;
              hostaged people,
                            banged up people,
                                          held down people;
              leader people,
                            lonely people,
                                          limping people;
              hungry people,
                            surfeited people,
                                          indifferent people;
              first world people,
                            second world people,
                                          third world people;
              one world people,
                            Your people,
                                          all people.
Bless them, Lord.
Bless what eludes my grasp
       but not Yours. Amen.

~Ted Loder