Pause for Prayer: SUNDAY 8/13

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I came across a reel on line addressing the issue of bringing very young children on vacations and trips. I encourage you to take a look (just 40 seconds long!)  Here are the words from the voice-over that really struck me:

Just because your kids won't remember something

doesn't mean that it's not forming who they are

in deep and profound ways.

 

In fact, those years that you don't remember

are some of the most formative years of your life...

How true, Lord, and how amazing:

    I don't remember some of the experiences

        that most profoundly shaped my life...

 

It's not so much that I've forgotten those times,

    rather, it's more that I didn't totally understand them

even though they helped shape and form

    the person I've become...

Some of those experiences may have been harmful

    and so I pray you might heal me, Lord,

        where I've forgotten what took place...

And some of the best experiences of my life

    are times I can't remember or articulate

and so I pray, Lord:  accept my praise and thanks

    for blessings I received 

        before I could had the words to name them...

What a mystery, Lord:

    how a human being grows! 

What impressions stamp our souls,

    bend and shape our selves

        and tattoo our hearts for life

- long before our will finds power to

    discern and decide,

        judge and choose,

    accept and refuse,

       desire and embrace...

But the mystery of my being, Lord,

    is fashioned by your love,

    refined by your desire,

    forged in your heart's fire,

    enlightened by your wisdom

    and healed by your anointing grace...

There are some things I've forgotten 

but this I will remember:

    it was you, Lord, who created me,

        to mirror your divinity;

    you've known me since before all time,

    you formed me in my mother's womb,

    you call me by my name

        and you name me as your own...

 

Whatever in my distant past

    has shaped whom I've become,

your grace will recreate me

    in your image, Lord, divine

and make of me the child you love,

    the apple of your eye...

Amen..

    

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