Monday Morning Offering: 9/13

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This morning, Lord,

I offer you my sense of direction!

Getting from here to there, Lord -
that's how I need your help today:
getting from here to there...

Here is, well, you know, Lord:

    here is now,

    this day, this hour, this moment;

    my present circumstances,

    today's problems, troubles and worries;

here is this day's burdens and fears,

    this hour's anxious waiting,

    this moment's aching loneliness...

 

And there?

There seems so far away,

    a lifetime's journey down the road!

Yet there's as near 

    as my accepting the reality of here

    with all its trials and troubles

    - right where I am...

 

There's that time and place
    not years away, not then 
    but here and now,
if only I'd begin to live
    not in all my yesterdays
    or some imagined future

but in the present moment:

    where I am,

    where you're with me

     and where, with you, I've all I need

    to get from here to there...

 

For here and there are now, are one in you, 

    and in you, Lord, 

    is all the peace I seek,

    and all the peace I need

    to see me through today,

    to see me through from here to there... 

I offer you this morning, Lord,

my inner sense of direction:

    may your grace be my North Star,

    your Spirit be my compass,

    and your wisdom be my guide...

 

Amen.

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