Pause for Prayer: SUNDAY 5/30

Photo by CP

From before all time, O God,

you knew these blossoms, each by name,

calling them to flower in one family's yard,

on a particular street, in a certain town,

near the end of the month of May...

You knew, by name, each flake that fell

on this shrub's wintry wait for spring

and for the warmth it needed - first to bud

and then break open in your praise...

You know, by name, each raindrop sent
to baptize and caress each petal
blushing with your glory and reminding us
that you are near...

You know precisely just how many days
these blooms will last before they fade
and then let go their grip
on branches now that hold them fast...

And if you know so well a flower
whose season is so short, whose span so brief,
how much more you know and call by name
each one of us, your own...

Oh, how carefully you number all our days:
every hour, every minute, every second
of our sorrows and our joys through all the years,
through all the seasons of our lives...

From before all time, O God,
you knew and loved us each by name
and called us into being in a year, on a date,
at an hour, in a season of your choosing...

From before all time, O God,
you knew and called us each by name
and waited for the day we'd bloom,
born to give you glory...

Let springtime flowers remind us, Lord,
how well you know and care for each of us,
by name, on every day,
through all the seasons of our lives...

Amen.

 

     
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