NIGHT PRAYER: Wednesday 7/24

Lord, 

I fear I don't tell you often enough

    how grateful I am 

for the blessings and gifts, the graces and favors 

    you've dropped in my lap, so generously

        over all the years of my life...

Sure, I've had problems, worries and fears,

    losses and disappointments

but the bottom line, when I add it all up,

    shows a bounty of mercies, tender and kind:

        many more than I might ever merit,

        far beyond what I might deserve...

 

And greatest of all - the gift of faith -

    the virtue feeding my hope and my trust

that you're ever, Lord, my guard and my guide

   on the journey I'm traveling home to you...

But tonight I pray, Lord, for family and friends

    whose path is rocky, whose seasons are hard,

whose blessings and favors may yet lie hidden

    beneath and behind their everyday tears...

When their trials, Lord, are too many to count 

    when their last bit of faith begins to give way,

when waves of doubt 

    make them feel like they're drowning,

help them to know in their hearts 

    what's always the truth:

your tender mercies are close at hand

    especially when seasons are hard...

 

Protect us, Lord while we're awake

    and watch over us while we sleep

that awake, we might keep watch with you

    and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

 

Stanzas 4 and 5 of my prayer above borrow freely from the lyrics of tonight's song.

 

Hard Season by Matt West

 

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Been a hard season 

Been a broken road 

All the dreams I was dreaming 

They went up in smoke 

But I keep on believing 

There is a reason 

For this hard season 

 

Been brought down to my knees 

But I’m too weak to pray 

So, God, I hope You can hear 

The words I can’t say 

Do You know what I’m needing 

Are You still holding me in 

This hard season 

 

I lift up my eyes where my help comes from 

I fall in the arms of the only One 

Who knows the reason 

For every hard season

Lord, You wrote the story that I can’t see 

So even in the dark my heart will believe 

There is a reason 

For every hard season 

 

When the tears and the trials 

Are too many to count 

When my last bit of faith starts to give way 

To the waves of my doubt 

It may feel like I’m drowning 

But I know I’m not alone in 

This hard season 

 

Chorus

 

Weeping may last for a moment 

But joy’s gonna come in the morning 

Blessings will flow from these battles 

And beauty will rise from these ashes  (3X)

 

Chorus

 

 

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