NIGHT PRAYER: Monday 10/28

Jesus told them:
    Do not worry about tomorrow;
    tomorrow will take care of itself...
- Matthew 6:25-31

Even as I begin to reflect on your word, Lord,

I know I am worrying about tomorrow

and that I do worry about many things

    - just about every day of my life...

And though you tell me "don't worry!"
    and "be not afarid!"

worries and fears still fill up my mind, 

    burden my heart
        and trouble my soul...

I'm so easily consumed by worry:

    my fears hold me hostage

    and anxiety distracts me 

    from you and from others,

        from moments of joy...

You tell me not to worry,
    that tomorrow will take care of itself
      - and I know you're right, Lord!
At least I know that worrying,
    or worrying more, 

        or worrying harder or longer
won't remove or resolve whatever it is
    that troubles, perturbs and bothers me...

Yes, there may be things I need to do today
    to prepare for tomorrow and face it responsibly
but worrying right now won't help me tomorrow

    - it will only upset and unsettle my soul...

Worry wearies my mind, Lord,

    and turns my head from the moment at hand

' 'til tomorrow finds me tired and spent

    sapped of energy I truly need

        - but worried away the day before...

And saddest of all, my fear of tomorrow
   can cloud my vision and close my eyes
to this day's blessings, this day's joys
    and all the ways you're with me, Lord,
        now, in the hour at hand...

 How many blessings and how much peace
    have I frittered away on one day, Lord,
imagining only the worst to come,

    awfulizing every tomorrow?

I need your help - I need it today, Lord!
I need deeper faith and trust in your pledge
    to be with me always, 

        to always be there...

Strengthen my faith and help me let go 

    my anxieties, worries and fears;
let me drink in the peace that's mine tonight,
    the comfort you offered in this day's woe's
and the joy that will never come 'round again
    in just the way it came today...

Let your presence tonight

    be the strength I look back to,
        and your word tonight be the wisdom I trust
    when tomorrow comes to knock on my door

        with whatever and all it may happen to bring...
 
Help me trust this, Lord:
   you know tomorrow - as I do not -
and that just as tomorrow is safe in your hands 
   I'll be safely held in your arms through this night...

Be my wisdom, strength and my peace, O Lord,

    for accepting, living and surviving each day
be my hope for trusting - when tomorrow comes -
      you'll be with me as surely 

            as you are this night...

 

Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake

    and watch over me while I sleep

that awake, I might keep watch with you

    and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

 

Do Not Worry by Ellie Holcomb

 

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See the birds who are singing in the spring air?
They’re given everything they need
They don’t worry where their next meal will come from
They don’t worry ‘bout a thing

So just, look around you and try to listen to
The song creation sings
And don’t you worry cause you’re in the hands
Of the God who made everything

See the flowers in their colorful beauty
They’re dressed better than a king
They don’t worry about what they should wear, no
They don’t worry ‘bout a thing

Chorus

Because you’re not a bird and you’re not a flower
You don’t have petals or wings
But there is good news - you’re worth so much more
To the God who made everything.

So when you worry ‘bout today or tomorrow
And the storms that they might bring
Try to remember that you’re in the hands
Of the God who made everything

Chorus
 

Now just remember:

you’re not a bird and you’re not a flower. 

You don’t have petals or wings. 

But there is good news, 

‘cause you’re worth so much more 

to the God who made everything.

 

 

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