Prayers for the Pandemic: For Believers and Non-Believers

By Jo Ann Levitt

In this brief collection of prayers and poetry, Jo Ann Levitt depicts the multiple moods that arise on a daily basis while witnessing the changes brought about by the great Pandemic of the 21st century. Through this series of rhymed prayers, the author shares conflicting experiences of mirth and misery, madness and mystery, all the while searching for the means to adjust to (or in some cases survive) this extraordinary event that has taken the world by surprise. Much of her work is aimed both at finding peace while at the same time exploring the deeper meaning—extracting potential clues or messages from Spirit that will help sustain us and at the same time align us with God’s greater purpose.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796098716

Jo Ann Levitt

Longtime spiritual counselor, teacher and Healing Touch Practitioner, Jo Ann Levitt has produced a variety of works on different topics. With her sister and brother, she has written Sibling Revelry: 8 Steps for Successful Adult Sibling Relationships, published by Dell in 2001. While on Kripalu Center faculty, she produced Pilgrim of Love honoring Swami Kripalu, its founder (published by Monkfish Book Publishers in 2004). Most recently you will find her channeled work: The Twentieth-Century-Gospel of Jesus Christ with its Spanish version: El Evangelio de Jesucristo del Siglo Veintiuno available on Xlibris website. She resides in western Massachusetts.

Book preview

1. Rogue Wave

You are riding the wave of

Uncertainty

The fine line between

Above and below

Between living and dying

Or learning to let it all go

Sturdy the vessel

Make it air tight

As you ride, let it cling

To the passing Dark Night

As you ride the Rogue Wave

To the top of the crest,

Fall, let it fall, you

Will tumble in flight

While the wave simply drops you

Into your new life

2. Where You Belong

Do not feel pushed into the world

Resist the urge to do or be

All that you did and acted upon

Was a great performance

But the curtain just went down

Get out of the way

Leave your old familiar

Slightly upside down

Slide into this Mystery and

Do not rest until you faithfully erase

All remnants of your history

You are not now anything that

You were before

Stop residing in this tiny

Hovel of your own device

You’d have more room in a

Dog house or bedding down with

Mice

Come out of narrowness and

Embrace your new Habitat

Which is the world

But even this world as you know it

Is no longer this world, as you know it

You must go within

In order to finally emerge

Releasing relentless portraits, images

And words

Layer upon layer that suffocated

Life and dreams

For it is clear that nothing in you is

As it seems

And that’s because the

Small encasement that you

Called the Self

Has truly exceeded its

Self-Life

But not in the