Pause for Prayer: THURSDAY 9/21

O God, 
I am your work in progress,

as much today at 70

as I was at 7 months or seven years…

I am your work in progress:

incomplete, unfinished,

still growing, taking shape, maturing,

all with the help of your grace…

I am your work in progress

and you never cease

to nudge and nurture me,

to mold and form me more and more

as the person you created me to be…

I am your work in progress,

even when I resist, deny or try to frustrate

your constant effort soften my ragged edges

and sharpen what’s grown dull in my spirit…

I am your work in progress

and by now I’m version # I-don’t-know

although I’m confident and sure

that you’re still working on the original,

on the heart-of-who-I am,

that unique individual whom you have known

since before all time began…

Give me patience, O God,

with the pace at which you work

to help me grow

and bring me to full stature…

And give me patience with myself

when I’m dissatisfied with who I am

and the progress I’ve made

in becoming the person you call me to be…

Give me patience ‘til I see and know

the plan you have for me

and how the work you do in me

serves you

and serves the world in which I live

and the people whom I love -

even while I’m still your work in progress…

That’s who I am, Lord,

I am your work in progress

and you love me, always, 
every step along the way,

because you take me as I am

and you know so very well

that I am yet unfinished, incomplete,

still growing and maturing,

with the help of your grace,

because I’m still your work in progress…

I trust, O God,

that you who began this good work in me

will be faithful

and will bring it to completion

on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ…

Amen.

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