A Concord Pastor Comments: Pause for Prayer: SUNDAY 10/25

10/24/15



(Not all of us where glasses or contacts but most of us have moments when our vision isn't as sharp as we wish it were. Today's Pause for Prayer anticipates this Sunday's gospel - which concerns a kind of vision in which we are are all impaired!)

I wear glasses, Lord: tri-focals!
Without my glasses my vision is
unclear, unfocused and fuzzy.
Without my glasses I miss the details
of beauty, knowledge, safety and direction.

Be my glasses, Lord!
Let your word, your truth and your wisdom
correct my blurred vision and bring it into focus...

Help me see what's up ahead of me;
help me see what's right in front of me;
and help me see what's in between...

Help me see what I miss at my hasty, first glance...

Help me see the detail I so often miss
in the beauty of the world around me,
in the truth of your word,
in the ways you direct my steps along your path...

Help me see myself and others
as you see us, Lord...