Pause for Prayer: SUNDAY 2/23

Image source: Sugar Mountain Farm

 

A new day, Lord,

and here we are again,

you and I,

but I'm looking for more

    than the same-old-same-old...

 

I want to get to know you, Lord,

to know you better

    than ever before...

I want to know you're there, Lord.
Well, no, not there -
    I want to know you're here!

And I want to know
that you know me
and that you truly care -

   about me...

 

Please, Lord,

show up in my life -

    today... 

Get in my car, ride shotgun,

and take a ride with me
to wherever I may be going

or wherever 

    you want me to go...

 

And if it's a day

to just stay home

then come right in 

and take a seat -

    right by my side...

 

Be quiet, be talkative,
be obvious or mysterious
but most of all, Lord - 

    let me know you're there...

 

Come spend the day with me

as an old friend would.
Take a break and sit with me.

Join me for lunch or a cup of tea,

just be with me, Lord -

    let me know you're there...

 

Speak to me, Lord:
in a sentence, a phrase, 

a word or a grunt,
in the pages of scriptures
or the tales of my heart,
in my thoughts, in a dream, 

in a vision or image,

in the words of a friend,
    in my sorrows, my joys...

 

Whisper to me, Lord, 

or shout in my face!
Just say something I can hear
in my mind, in my heart,

    in my musing, in my prayer... 

I want to get to know you, Lord,

to know you better

    than ever before...

 

I want to know you're there, Lord.
Well, not just there or some everywhere,
I want to know -

    you're here!

Speak to me, Lord:
break the lonely silence
    and speak to me...

Unplug the ears of my heart,
break through my doubt and my pride.
Let the sound, the word,
the breath of your presence
echo within me,
somewhere inside me,
    deep in my heart of hearts...

Speak to me, Lord!
Help me hear you and trust you
and get to know you

    better than ever before...

Amen.

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