Borrowing Words Part 3

 

God of Wednesday when we are in the messy middle of a week.

Our good intentions and plans from Monday morning were thwarted by interruptions and we had to throw them out the window.

Our re-start of Tuesday, new day/new me attitude from yesterday got turned upside down because of the words were heard and the moment we opened the newspaper.

So, here we are on this hump day, middle of the week.

Here we are with this mixture of moments when things went awry, and…and we know that somethings have also gone alright this week.

We celebrate that lunch from Monday with a friend.

We felt Your nearness, O God, as we took a deep breath on Tuesday.

And here we are with You right now on this Wednesday.

Remind us, O God, that we can always return and re-tune the instrument of our life to You.

Remind us, O God, that just as the sower in the Bible who scattered seeds willy-nilly and some of them actually took root, so maybe You are not asking us for a bumper crop of love every day from my life.

Remind us, O God, that sometimes reasonably happy is a good goal, perhaps even a holy one.

So may the prayers of our cluttered hearts this day be offered to You.

Untangle and untwist our random thoughts and scattered souls and emotions we are not sure we can really share, to find a moment of stillness with You.

Be thou our vision in this moment and every moment.  Surround and sustain us with a love divine all love’s excelling that comes unconditionally from You.  Let our lives sing out with joyful noise in adoration that You are with us and nothing separates us from Your presence.  Please, God, we are really counting on this to be true today.  Amen.