Pause for Prayer: MONDAY 1/22

 
        Image: George Mendoza

Good morning, good God!

 

I lift up to you this morning, Lord,

    some things that get in my way

        as I try to grow in faith...

I offer you the disappointment I experience

    when you don’t do just what I want you to do

        - and in the way I want you to do it;

help me remember

    that you're not my servant,

        but that I am yours...

I offer you my impatience

    when I think you respond too slowly

and the doubts I have 

    when I fear that you're not listening:

help me trust that you hear my every prayer

    that you answer me in a hundred ways 

        I might miss, ignore or reject

          - when I'm only open to my way...

I offer you my envy, Lord,

    when I fret about what I don't have

and my stubbornness, too,

    when I refuse to be happy

        unless it's all on my terms:     

   open my eyes to the gifts I do have

      and to the many blessings I’ve received,

   to the peace and joy you've readied for me

      to discover, enjoy and share...

 

I offer you my hopelessness, Lord,

    when my life's like the wind

        and I fear I'll never again find joy;

    help me trust

        that your love is better than life,

        that my hope in you is never in vain

        that my restless heart will find rest in you...

 

Help me trust when I cannot find you

    that you're still and always right by my side;

that even when I feel abandoned,

    I'm held in the palm of your hand;

that when I'm just too weak to keep going

   your arm reaches out to lift me up;

that when I find myself most vulnerable

   you shield me with love everlasting... 

 

I lift up to you this morning, Lord,  

    the things that get in my way

        as I try to grow in faith;

draw me out of myself 

    and into your heart,

        your way, your truth and your life...

   
Amen.

 

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