I'm grateful for these past few days, Lord,
when you've shown me in some subtle
- and some not so subtle ways:
how I run from you
even as I pray you'll hold me close;
how I try to second guess you
though you know my every thought and word and deed;how I doubt you
even as I see your truth unfold;
how I test your grace
as it carries me through troubled nights and days;
how I often turn away
though you meet me on whatever path I walk;
how I wrestle with forgiveness
though your mercy never fails to take me back;
how I strike out on my own
though I know how much I need your saving help;
how I think I know a better way than you
though you're my way, my truth and life...
I'm grateful for your patience with me, Lord,
- these past few days and all throughout my life;
in subtle and in not so subtle ways keep showing me
how you are all I have and all I need...
Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake
and watch over me as I sleep
that awake, I might keep watch with you
and asleep rest in your peace...
Amen.
O God, You Search Me by Bernadette Farrell
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O God, you search me and you know me.
All my thoughts lie open to your gaze.
When I walk or lie down you are before me:
Ever the maker and keeper of my days.
You know my resting and my rising.
You discern my purpose from afar,
and with love everlasting you besiege me:
In every moment of life or death, you are.
Before a word is on my tongue, Lord,
you have known its meaning through and through.
You are with me beyond my understanding:
God of my present, my past and future, too.
Although your Spirit is upon me,
still I search for shelter from your light.
There is nowhere on earth I can escape you:
Even the darkness is radiant in your sight.
For you created me and shaped me,
gave me life within my mother’s womb.
For the wonder of who I am I praise you:
Safe in your hands, all creation is made new
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