NIGHT PRAYER: Friday 2/5

I'm thinking back to autumn, Lord,

and scolding you for robbing me of daylight

in your own stealthy, incremental way

hoping, perhaps, I might not notice

how your playing with the solar system alters

my mood and frame of mind

each fall...

But now comes time to praise you

for the slow and steady way you have

of lengthening my days, 

surprising me with brightness

- like a deer caught in your daylight -

at 4:30 in the afternoon!

Before sending us spinning 'round the sun

you set the earth at a jaunty angle, Lord,

and so we live these seasons 

of longer and shorter days, shorter and longer nights 

until light triumphs every spring and once again

your favor dawns upon us...

My own imperfect angles 

yield sunshine and shadows, Lord:

times of sin and seasons of grace within my heart

but your light always triumphs, rising in my soul,

in victory every dawn, with mercy in your peace....

So, now, Lord,

as the sun lengthens every day

let your light grow strong within me

and in your own stealthy, incremental way,

catch me by surprise with grace

and let your favor dawn upon me...

Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake

and watch over me through the night

that awake, I might keep watch with you

and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

 

(Tonight's music is an instrumental piece by Coldplay.  As you listen, ponder the stealthy, incremental ways the Lord is moving in your life, night and day, in season and out of season...) 

 

Sunrise by Coldplay

 

 

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