Monday Morning Offering - 151

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Good morning, good God!

It’s summer, Lord:

the days are warm and the nights are, too.

It’s a time to be grateful for the AC

in so many places,

cooling to comfort the spaces where

we live and work and rest and pray…

But sometimes I run too quickly from the heat,

from how the summer soaks

and seeps its way through my pores,

through muscle to bone,

through bone to the marrow of my soul,

warming me through and through

until, from the inside out,

I’m baked in a light from light years away…

Draw me from the shade and shadows, Lord,

and warm me in your love

as you warm me in your summer's sun:

soak and seep your way into my soul;

pass through the cool comforts shielding me

from the brilliance of your light,

the heat of your presence,

the burn of your desire for my heart…

Bake me in your love

until I sweat from every pore

the moist anointing of your presence…

Bathe me in the warmth of your grace

‘til I am tanned by your light touch

within and without…

Warm my heart’s desire for you

and let no cool shade keep me from the peace

your heart burns to give…

I offer you these summer days

when all creation warms to know

the light that knows no dark…

In the heat of the noonday sun

keep me mindful, Lord, of others

whose thirst I might slake in your name…

So comes my morning offering, Lord,

this summer’s day and all this week…

Amen.

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