Monday Morning Offering: 67/1

Morning Coffee by George Mendoza

Good morning, good God!

Really, Lord - July?

Are you serious?

Can it be -already-
    the seventh month of 2024?
    with the Fourth of July just a few days away?
    and a new year just six months down the road?

And what of these months behind us?

 

For many, they crawled at a snail's pace:

    painfully slow, intense and drawn-out,

        almost as if time itself might stand still... 

Yet for others time flew like an arrow,

    whizzing by and passing too quickly:

        not enough hours in any one day,

        nor days in a week or weeks in a month...

And what have these six months held for me, Lord?

    what might I offer today, at half year?

 

I bear the bruises and scrapes and scars

    that time inscribes on a broken heart;

 and I offer the course of your gently closing

    wounds I thought might never heal...

I come with months of worries and questions,

    filed away in my mind and my thoughts;

 and I offer the grace of slowly discerning

    your wisdom and truth, your presence and spirit...

I've memories of sitting and waiting in sadness

    and praying for joy to find me again;

 and I offer a midyear's basket of praise

    for good times, blessings, mercy and peace...

 

So much can happen in half a year,

    in a month, a week, a day or an hour;

but in each moment you're by my side:

    Lord of my years and Lord of my life...

 

I offer you, Lord, my ups and my downs:

    my good times and bad, my sorrows and joys; 

whether time flies by or seems to stand still,

    fill my soul with the timeless, 

        my heart with your love...

Amen.

   

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