Lord, sometimes I look back upon the last few days, the week or month just past, and catch a glimpse or two (or more) of how your grace has brought me to this day, through trials and troubles that seemed, just yesterday, impossible, irreparable, impassable...
But, here I am today, Lord, in the midst this pandemic and with your help I've made it through the last seven weeks and through the dark of last night to the dawn of this new day. I made it, Lord - but only by your grace...
I so often miss your helping hand, the ways you reach out to encourage and support me: to lift me up when I'm down, to lead me on when I hang back, to draw me out of my resentment and self-pity...
I get in my own way, Lord: I look down instead of up, I look in instead of out, I think the worst and not the best, I give up hope when trust is what I need the most...
I get in my own way, Lord, and trip myself on disappointment, fear and worry. I get in my own way and fail to see you're there for me in just the ways I need you. I get in my own way and miss the many ways you call for me to wake up, get up, shape up, grow up, step up, face up to the challenges before me...
One day at a time is all you ask of me and every day is just how often you reach out to bring me through all the troubles and trials that seemed, just yesterday, impossible, impassable, irreparable...
Lord, sometimes I look back upon the last few days, the weeks and months just past, and catch a glimpse or two (or more) of how your grace has brought me safe thus far. Give me glimpses today, Lord, glimpses of your presence and the grace you offer me: each day, every day, one day at a time...
Keep me out of my own way, Lord: help me follow you upon the path where your love helps and heals and lifts me up...
Amen.
And here's a song that sings the theme of the prayer above:
Day After Day by John Andrew Schreiner and Walth Harrah
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