NIGHT PRAYER: Thursday 1/18

I've posted a number of variations on this prayer, always in 

January as the season of Lent comes near on the horizon...  

And so, since Ash Wednesday is less than a month away...

It's here again, Lord, this season, gray

and charcoaled on the landscape of my heart, 

etched in the ice of long dark winter nights...

Every year there comes this time

'twixt the holly and the palm:

    my wintry wait for ashes

    and Lent's deep purple shades,

this time between what's been and yet to be...

So much of life, Lord, comes as in-between:
    in-between the times gone by
        and all that lies ahead;
    in-between the old and new,
        'tween hope and disappointment,
    in-between anticipation's wait

        and the sweet peace of fulfillment...

 

I live between my ups and downs,

    my tear-stained cheeks and smiles;

between all my achievements

     and the work I've yet to do;

between the life I know so well

    and life's mystery yet to come...

 

Because I'm in-between, Lord,

    always somewhere in-between,

make me mindful of the moment,

    help me keep it in today,

accepting things I cannot change 

    and changing things I can,

finding wisdom - in between -

    to give me patience with my past

        and hope for what's to come...

Be with me in this season

    gray and charcoaled in my heart,

be with me while I lie awake

    and when I fall asleep,

between the dusk and  dawn, Lord,

    'twixt your mercy and your grace,

be with me in this season,

    this season of your love...

    

Amen. 

 

The In Between by Matt Maher 

 

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From death to life 

From darkness to a shine 

From fear to a peace I can’t explain 

From doubts to a hope 

Holding on and letting go 

Of all the empty promises of shame 

 

This is my song I was one way 

 

But now I am different 

There was a clear change in 

A Holy collision 

Who I was 

And who I’ll forever be 

And He was the in between

 

From orphan to Your child 

From a stone to running wild 

From a seed in the ground 

To breaking out 

From a mess to a mess 

A blessing to a blessing 

A sea of failures bearing testimony 

 

This is my song

 

Love stretched out 

On a tree screaming out 

So that I could say 

You’ve not forsaken me 

 

You’re the first and the last 

My future and my past 

Who I was 

And who I will forever be 

You are the in between 

 

I was one way 

But now I am different

There was a clear change in 

A Holy collision 

Who I was 

And who I’ll forever be 

And You are the in between

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