NIGHT PRAYER: Wednesday 1/14

A little background on today's Night Prayer... As you may know, I have a relationship with a prayer group of inmates at the Clear Creek County Jail in Georgetown, CO.  When I'm in Colorado I join the group in person and when I'm back in Massachusetts, I join them virtually every week through my recording a prayer from the archives of my blog and a short reflection.  This week, however, because a number of men in the group are waiting to receive their sentences, I wrote a prayer especially for them - which I'm sharing with you tonight.  Actually, it's a prayer for anyone waiting for news - and hoping and praying the news will be good. For the men in the prayer group, good news is usually relative and proportional to how bad the news might possibly be - and that's true for many of us... With all that in mind, I ask you to pray for my brothers in Clear Creek County Jail and for all who might need this prayer tonight... 

When I'm waiting for some news, Lord, 

    and it takes its time in coming,

make me patient, even hopeful,

    for the word I pray to hear...

 

When I'm counting years and months and weeks

   until that news arrives,

take away my fear and worry,

    help me trust I'm in your care...

 

Help me stay within the moment,

    help me keep it in today, 

help me put my past behind me

    and the future in your hands...

 

And should the news be good, Lord,

   make me grateful for your gift

and give me grace to live it out

   with humble prayer and praise…

 

Let me take it not for granted

   but as mercy undeserved,

ever mindful of your kindness

   and the debt of thanks I owe…

 

But should the news arrive, Lord,

    and it's bad or sad or grim,

give me strength to take it in

    and not be broken by its weight...

 

Help me shoulder my new burden,

    help me lean on you, my friend,

let me know I'm not alone, Lord,

    that you're there, right by my side...

 

I do not, cannot know your plan,

    I only know my part:

not only how I've failed you, Lord,

    but what I now can do...

 

I can, with your grace, turn my heart

    to you, your word, your will;

I can, with your help, live in peace,

    just one day at a time...

 

I can, if I would lean on you,

    stand straight and tall and strong,

set free to be the man

    whom you created me to be...

 

I can, with your help, grow in grace

    if I would just surrender

my stubborn ways, my will and pride

    to you, my Lord and God...

 

I know it won't be easy, Lord,

    won't be a bed of roses,

it never is for anyone

    in any situation...

 

So when the news is bad, Lord,

   help me find you in my sorrow,

for I know and trust that you’ll find me

   in mercy, with your peace…    

 

I know you'll walk beside me

    wherever my path leads

and that's good news for me, Lord, 

    the news I need to hear…

 

Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake

    and watch over me while I sleep

that awake, I might keep watch with you

    and asleep rest in your peace...

 

Amen. 

 

Your Love Defends Me by Matt Maher by Unspoken

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You are my joy You are my song 

You are the well The One I’m drawing from 

You are my refuge My whole life long 

Where else would I go 

 

Surely my God is The strength of my soul 

Your love defends me Your love defends me 

And when I feel like I’m all alone 

Your love defends me Your love defends me 

 

Day after day Night after night 

I will remember You’re with me in this fight 

Although the battle It rages on 

The war is already won 

I know the war is already won 

 

Surely my God is The strength of my soul 

Your love defends me Your love defends me 

And when I feel like I’m all alone 

Your love defends me Your love defends me 

 

We sing Halleluiah 

You’re my portion My salvation 

Halleluiah 

 

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