Monday Morning Offering: 6/17

Image: George Mendoza

Good morning, good God!

Sometimes, Lord, 

it's a song or a memory, 

or a trinket found in box in a closet

    when I was looking for something else

or the mention of someone's name

or a photo faded and creased by age

or the tug of grief on my heartstrings

or the echo of joys long silenced by time...

It can be one or more of so many things, Lord:

    times and places, voices and faces,

    emotions and feelings, a calendar date,

    ticket stubs, letters, notes and cards,

    a hymn, a prayer, a thought or a dream,

all souvenirs nudging my heart and my soul

    to look back and remember, recall and connect 

    with parts of my life I cherish and treasure 

    and never want to let go or forget...  

Connections, Lord:

    links to my past, links to my life,

    ties that bind and hold me fast

        to all that's made me the person I am,

        to all the ways you've shown me your grace

        and to all the ways I've known your love,

            your mercy, your healing, your peace...

I offer you all these memories, Lord,

    in gratitude for the gifts I've received

        in good times and bad, in sickness and health,

        in my ups and downs, in my hopes and my fears

    and in all the ways what I remember

        tells the story of your love for me...

Amen.

 

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