The first of August -
already?
Really?
Way. Too. Soon.
(IMHO)
Summer is slipping away, Lord,
or so it seems to me
and August's
debut uncomfortably intrudes
on my favorite time of the year...
on my favorite time of the year...
I know there's more summer yet to come,
but what has passed is what I miss
- and I wonder where it went
and how I let it go...
Still, this is the day that you've made, Lord:
August 1, 2023...
This day's unique
in the whole of my
life,
in the lives of my
friends,
in humankind's
history
and, indeed,
unique
in your mind, Lord...
This day has never dawned before
and will never come again:
August 1, 2023,
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
So, what would you have me make of this day, Lord?
What would you have me do - or not do?
What would you have me embrace
- and what would you have me set free?
- and what would you have me set free?
Where would you have me go
and from where do you think I should keep my distance?
and from where do you think I should keep my distance?
How would you have me spend this
day:
August 1, 2021?
How might I make this a better day
for all the folks whose paths cross mine?
How might I mend, on the day at hand,
the mistakes I made a day, a month, a year ago?
What might I do today, Lord,
to prepare for a peaceful tomorrow?
to prepare for a peaceful tomorrow?
And what are your plans, Lord,
for the 1st of August in '23?
How will you move and act today
in my heart, in my life, in the world?
Open me up to all the ways
your Spirit will touch me today:
in my mind, in my heart,
in my mind, in my heart,
in
my conscience, in my soul
and in all of my words and deeds.
and in all of my words and deeds.
Open me, Lord, to all the ways
you'll move in my
life today...
This is the day that you've made, O Lord,
August 1, 2023:
help me rejoice and be glad in the day at hand
help me spend this day in your grace
- and come to its end in your peace...
help me spend this day in your grace
- and come to its end in your peace...
Amen.
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