NIGHT PRAYER: Thursday 3/11

 

I came across this quote from Ann Frank (below)

and want to share it with you in prayer this evening...

 

    Photo by CP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some days, Lord, it's just not easy 

to imagine, to hope, that better days are ahead

because we've had a year of hard days

and for many, those have been hard days

heaped on years of hard and even harder days...

So, if it's hard to imagine that better days are ahead,

it's a grace to hope that some of our best days still await us!

Open our minds and hearts, Lord,

open our vision and imagination,

our hopes and dreams to a new day,

a better day, even to the best of days,

days and nights yet to come,

known only now to you

in their beauty, joy and peace,

their comfort and consolation,

their assurance of your love abiding always

and promising without fail

that all shall be well,

that all shall be well,

that even after this past year,

all manner of things shall be well...

Protect us, Lord, while we're wide awake

and watch over us while we're deep in sleep

that awake we might keep watch with you

and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

 

(Another musical setting for "All Shall Be Well" by Andrew Peterson, 

a composer/writer I've just recently discovered - I think you'll like this!)

All Shall Be Well by Andrew Peterson

 

 

We touched down on the sound
At the top of the world
In the land of the midnight sun
Where the frozen river melts away
And breaks into a run
Into the sea, into the mighty waves
That waited just to see it
From a long way off that river thawed
And the tide ran out to meet it
"Welcome home, unfrozen river, welcome home"

'Cause all shall be well, all shall be well
Break the chains of the gates of hell
Still all manner of things will be well

See the quiet hearts of the children of
The children of this land
They have stayed alive in the day-long night
By the fires that warm their hands
There is a wilderness inside them
It is dark and thick and deep
And beside the fire at the heart of that wood
Is a precious missing sheep
So go on in, hold your torch, let it shine

'Cause all shall be well, all shall be well
Break the chains of the gates of hell
Still all manner of things will be well
All shall be well, all shall be well
The Word of God will never fail
And all manner of things will be well

 

There's a light in the darkness
There's an end to the night

 

I saw the sun go down on a frozen ocean
As the man in the moon was rising
And he rode the night all full and bright
With his face at the far horizon
And the night can be so long, so long
You think that you'll never get up again
But listen now, it's a mighty cloud of
Witnesses around you—they say
"Hold on, just hold on
Hold on to the end"

 

'Cause all shall be well, all shall be well
Break the chains of the gates of hell
Still all manner of things will be well
All shall be well, all shall be well
The Word of God will never fail
And all manner of things will be made well

gonna be made well,

hold on to the end,

there's a light in the darkness

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