NIGHT PRAYER: Thursday 7/20

I spend a fair amount of time, Lord, 

    just waiting

        - waiting for you -

even though I'm not always sure 

    exactly what or whom I'm waiting for:

    - am I waiting for you to appear so I might see you?
    - am I waiting for you to speak so I might hear you?
    - am I waiting upon your touch so I might know you're there?
    - am I waiting for you to mend all my brokenness?

    - am I waiting for you to fix all my problems?
    - am I waiting for you to fill me with your joy?
    - am I waiting for you to answer all my prayers

        and in just the way I hope you're going to answer?

 

Of course, I'd be really happy

if you came to me in any (or all!) of those ways

to do what I'm waiting for you to do...

 

But most of the time

I just keep on waiting 

and I wonder:

    - have you shown up in my life 

        and I've missed you,  

            just not noticed you were there?

    - have you spoken a word I didn't hear

        when I was too busy or too distracted to pay attention?

    - have you reached out to lift me up

        and I've not felt your hand upon my shoulder?

    - have you offered healing of what hurts inside,

        of the pain I often cling to?

    - have I missed some joy you brought my way

        when I was lost in my self-pity?

    - have I missed your answers to my prayers

        because they came in ways I'd not expected?

It's very possible, Lord, 

    that in any or all of these moments

       I've missed you in my waiting

and so I'll pray and wait some more

  and then I'll pray again and wait again

        and then I'll wait some more...

 

In my prayer tonight, Lord:
    - let me close my eyes and see your face
    - let me listen in the stillness
          and hear the word you speak to me
    - let me know your healing touch upon my soul
    - let me open wide my heart to any joy

        you drop from your hands into mine

and in all of this, in all my waiting, Lord:

    - let me hear your answer to my prayer...

 

I wait and I pray, Lord,

    and I pray and I wait

        and I wait and I pray some more,

but not in vain:

    - for whether I see you or not,

          I trust, I know, you're always with me

    - whether I hear you speak or not,

          I trust, I know you call me by my name

    - whether I feel your touch or not,

          I trust, I know your arms reach out to hold me

    - whether I'm healed today or not,

          I trust, I know your mercy bathes my wounds

    - whether I find some joy in life today or not,

          I trust, I know your Spirit fills my soul

    - whether you answer me today or not,

          I trust, I know you hear my every prayer...

 

And so I wait and pray, 

    and so I pray and wait

        and in my waiting, Lord,

I pray that when you come, 

    I'll see you and I'll know you

        as you draw near by my side

for as I, Lord, wait for you,

    I trust and know you wait for me...

Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake
   and watch over me as I sleep
that awake, I might keep watch for you
   and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

Wait on the Lord by Tommy Walker

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