Please do not let this be the day I get busted for regularly breaking several of the ten commandments.

Please do not let the milk and eggs and vegetables rot in my fridge before I can use them.

Please don’t let me accidentally lose my engagement ring down the drain of the kitchen sink.

Watch over the families whose homes have been bombed to rubble and whose loved ones have been reduced to bloody ashes.

Be gentle with the wings of monarch butterflies; let the milkweed thrive.

Let the forests stand tall and the songbirds sing.

Send your angels to the libraries, the coffee shops, the little book shops and the music stores, the sushi parlors – they’re going to need their strength.

Fortify the nurses and the teachers and the carpenters, offer understanding and the joy of comprehension to the scientist and the poet and the student.

Please send comfort to the grandmother of the child who was recently bullied into the ground.

Let there be all the right books on the shelves for the people who need them.

Remember the dead. Walk with the living.

Keep one eye on my kid sister.

Amen.