God be in my head

I've found the prayer useful too recently...

When there's no words to face a situation with, you kind of have to rely on the simplest of structures and let them hold you - like this prayer does.

I pray it all the time at the moment... sometimes I drift halfway through and outside noise drowns out the meaning but then I come back to it and start again. Sometimes it becomes almost circular and I go round and round the same lines like a buddhist chant,. Sometimes I say 'her' head or 'his' eyes or 'our' departing. I think about the people I'm praying it for.

Mostly I say 'my'. Mostly I'm praying it for myself.