{"id":2112,"date":"2026-07-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:00:00","slug":"a-prayer-in-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/a-prayer-in-fragments\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer in Fragments \u2014 For the Ones Rebuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Today, in Bloom \u2014 the daily word. Delivered at dawn, kept all day. <a href=\"\/faith\/faith\/practice\/#subscribe\">Receive it by email<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Morning Prayer for the Ones Rebuilding<\/h2>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Holy One who was never the voice that harmed us \u2014<br>meet us in the words we can still say,<br>and be patient with the ones we cannot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God of the true name and the mended morning: some of us pray today in fragments, because fragments are what survived. Receive the fragments as whole. Where old words were made into weapons, give us new ones, or give us silence that you treat as speech. Bless the bodies rising into this day \u2014 the aching ones, the transitioning ones, the tired-of-explaining ones \u2014 and let each know, before noon, one unambiguous kindness.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the ones deciding today whether to stay \u2014 in a faith, a town, a life \u2014 grant the counsel that is actually theirs, and the safety to follow it. For the ones who left harmful rooms: confirm that leaving was faithful. And for all of us: the daily bread, the daring hope, the stubborn conviction that we were made on purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Line to Carry<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fragments, received as whole.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Holding<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go gently. Pray badly if badly is what you have \u2014 it counts entire. You are held, unedited, all day. Amen.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, in Bloom \u2014 the daily word. Delivered at dawn, kept all day. Receive it by email. A Morning Prayer for the Ones Rebuilding Holy One who was never the voice that harmed us \u2014meet us in the words we can still say,and be patient with the ones we cannot. God of the true name [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bloom_homily_image":0,"_bloom_homily_focus":"","_bloom_hero_focus":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy-prayer","tag-time-after-pentecost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}