Pause for Prayer: FRIDAY 5/14

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Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been
or where we are supposed to be going
that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives,

the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say,

"Here, I guess, since this is where I am."

- Barbara Brown Taylor in An Altar in the World

 

  Food for thought - and prayer...

 

I know, Lord, 

I haven't always walked the path

you charted for me

 

and I also know

I might not yet be walking

the road you have in mind for me

 

still

 

no matter where I've been

or where I may be heading

I know you're at my side, Lord,

forgiving and correcting 

all the wrong turns I have taken

and showing me the path    

your Spirit beckons me to follow...    

 

Where I am, Lord, there you are:

you meet me in the moment,

not the past nor in the future

but in today, where I live

with my doubts and with my faith,

all my sorrows and my joys,

my disappointments and my dreams

 

in the midst of it all, Lord, 

there you are: 

you with me and I with you

and in that very place

is where I always want to be...

Amen.

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