Monday Morning Offering: 7/22

Morning Coffee by George Mendoza

Good morning, good God!

It’s summer, Lord:

the days are warm and the nights are, too.

It’s a time to be grateful for the AC

in so many places,

cooling to comfort the spaces where

we live and work and rest and pray…

But sometimes I run too quickly from the heat,

from how the summer soaks and seeps its way
   through my pores,

   through muscle to bone,

   through bone to the marrow of my soul,

warming me through and through

until, from the inside out,

I’m baked in a heat from light years away…

Draw me from the shade and shadows, Lord:

warm me in your love

as you warm me in your summer's sun;

melt your way into the depths of my soul;

pass through the cool comforts shielding me

   from the brilliance of your light,

   the heat of your presence,

   the burn of your desire for my own…

Bake me in your love

until I sweat from every pore

the moist anointing of your presence…

Bathe me in the warmth of your grace

‘til I'm tanned by your light touch

- within and without…

Warm my heart’s desire for you

and let no cool shade keep me from the peace

your heart burns to give…

I offer you these summer days

when all creation warms to know

the light that knows no darkness…

In the heat of noonday sun

keep me mindful, Lord, of others

whose thirst I might help quench…

So comes my morning offering, Lord,

this summer’s day and all this week…

Amen.

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