Prayer

 

So we wrap up and wind down another week of telling the story of you.  Have you, along with God, found ways to define and describe the chapters of your life?  Have you played with top ten lists of your life?  What are you sensing is important and significant?  What would you say you was an insight from this last week you want to carry forward?  Are there things/experiences/encounters you need to lay down so as not to let that hurt so define what you do?  Are there celebrations that can still bring a smile to your face? 

 

Reflect and review with God the good, the not so great, and the “Oh my word” moments of this last week.  Reflect and review with God the beautiful ordinary and the hard/holy work.  Reflect and review the God all that was and is…and what might be as this day unfolds.

 

God, You are our help in ages past and our hope for this day to come.  You are the One who shelters us amid the stormy blasts.  To be sure, we still get soaked from the rain and we can get so caught up in ruminating on what is wrong with others, projecting our pain, and feeling immobilized by our wounds.  We can long for a faith that can move mountains, but right now we are not even sure we can gather enough strength to go to the grocery store.  We want to be good soil for the seeds of Your love, but the rough and rocky places in our life are hard to break through.  We need You every hour to abide.  Bring Your gardening tools, O God, to till and tend our lives.  Bring Your editing pen to help us re-write our lives as testimonies and testaments to a love that will not let us go.  Meet us in this moment and every moment this day.  In the name of the One who we follow, Jesus the Christ. Amen.