Monday Morning Offering: 5/4

Good morning, good God!

 

There are times when I'm driving, Lord,

and after a stretch of miles

I realize I'm not sure

    if I've been watching the road
        with all its twists and turns;

not sure if I've paid attention 
    to other vehicles and highway signs;
not sure if I've been aware 

    of what's around me,

        what's behind and ahead of me...

 

And yet somehow 

(miraculously?) 
I've made my way to where I am 
from somewhere way back there 
and all without landing in a ditch 

- or worse...

 

I've often been listening to music

    or talk radio... 
or sorting through roaming thoughts... 
toying with ideas passing through my mind...
or just quietly moving down the highway
in the silent chapel of my car...

 

Is any part of me watching?

keeping an eye on the traffic?

looking left and right

in my rear view mirror? 

 

How is it that I don't lose my way?

that I get from somewhere way back there,

'til somehow I am here,

in the present,

in the moment,

now

- with you? 

 

It's not me, Lord, it's you,

you're riding shotgun, 

you're my copilot, 

you're at the wheel,

safely steering me

through heavy traffic,

dangerous curves,

and danger I might miss...

 

You alert me to exits

I can or should take

and guide me safely home

and to my journey's end... 

 

As on the highway, Lord, 

    - so in my soul -
you ride along beside me, 
protecting me along the way 

getting me from where I was, 
    - through peril I miss -
to where I'm going,

where I need to be, 
to where you  call and want me to be...

I offer you my thanks, Lord, 

for all you do  

when I'm not looking, 
when I'm nodding off, 

paying scant attention 

- when I should be alert, observant,

    vigilant and wide awake...

 

I offer my thanks for your direction, Lord,

for all the times you've nudged and prodded me,
for when you've grabbed the wheel 

and steered me out of harm's way,

keeping me on the road you've mapped

for this journey of mine through life... 

Amen.

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