Monday Morning Offering: 11/17

Coffee in the Morning: George Mendoza

Good morning, good God!

My path crosses the paths of so many others, Lord:

     friends and family

    parishioners and neighbors,

    strangers and passersby 

    classmates, colleagues, 

        customers and clerks, 
    newcomers and old friends;

and in so many places:
    at work, at home, 

        at school and in stores,
    at play, in prayer,
    in sickness and health,
    in wealth, in wont,
    in good times and bad,
    in joy and sadness...

 

I offer you all these, Lord,

    all my moments of meeting
- and the hearts and hopes
    of those who come my way...

 

I offer you the tears I often see

    running down cheeks damp with grief...

 

I offer you smiles of love on the faces of parents 

    watching their children play...

I offer you even the smallest step forward
    taken by someone afraid to make a move...

I offer you the healing I see 

    in the hearts of those who've been forgiven

        and in the hearts of those who forgive...

I offer you new resolve,

    bold in the hearts of those 

        who are picking themselves up,

        dusting themselves off
        and placing their hands in yours...

 

I offer you the gratitude of those working hard
    to learn and to grow, 

        and to become the persons you made them to be..

 

I offer you those 

    whose hearts are bound in love
        to hearts far away or in harm's way...

 

I offer you the Spirit's touch in my own heart
    and pray for the grace to be faithful to it... 

I offer you the moments of grace I see 
    and the moments I miss and mess up...

I thank you for the ways 

    you show me your face,
    take my hand in yours,

    walk by my side,
    use my gifts, 

    listen to my prayers,
    lift me up, 

    settle me down,
    calm my fears, 

    strengthen my will,
    and hold me gently, safely

        right in the palm of your hand...

 

I offer you this day, Lord,
    and the new week that lies before me:
help me find your face in all I meet,     

    in all whose paths cross mine...

Amen.

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