If you run “petition” through your thesaurus, you get “request” for the noun and “appeal” for the verb. Paul encourages, “in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God” (Phil 4:6 RSV). In your haikus and images, show us what you’re asking for today.
5.3 petition
5.3 petition, June Steckler
5.3 petition, June Steckler ~~ (If this haiku was getting graded, this one would get a D-. Fortunately, neither God nor Dawn are big on handing out haiku grades.)
5.3 petition, Robert Phillips
5.3 petition, Peggy Brimer
5.3 petition, Andrew Brimer
5.3 petition, Dawn Duncan Harrell ~~ Yesterday’s page from my journal with both the request for “daily bread” (see check lists) and the one for “deliver us from evil” (see lecture notes on vulnerability).
