A Prayer for a New Season

Dear Lord,

As we take our first steps into this new summer season, I thank you for the year just past—for 12 months chock full of opportunities to trust you. Day after day, you showed yourself faithful—in more ways than I can list here, in more ways than I even realize.

It shouldn’t surprise me that you did this—faithful is what you are, and you cannot contradict yourself, no matter how faithless I am. And yet here I am, once again in awe of who you are and how you operate.

It’s a mystery to me—how you choose to answer some prayers beyond our wildest dreams while holding off on others for no apparent reason whatsoever. But you’ve never commanded me to figure you out; you simply ask me to trust you.

So I try.

I’m grateful for all your many blessings—the obvious ones as well as those that may only be revealed as blessings as in retrospect.

I praise you because you are the God who heals, the God who protects, the God who goes before us and is with us.

I praise you because you know how we are formed and remember that we are dust. You are close to us when we are brokenhearted, and you save us when we are crushed in spirit.

I praise you because of how you continually lead us—when the road ahead is long and the way is unclear, when the path is short but very crooked and steep, when the ground at our feet is level and the pastures on either side are lush and green.

No matter what we think, no matter how we feel, no matter what anyone else says or does, you are enough.

When we are weak, you make us strong. When we are afraid, you give us peace.

When we are discouraged, you give us hope. When we don’t know what to do, you grant us wisdom.

And when we are lost, you help us find our way home.

Amen.

♥ Lois

P.S. I’m linking up this week with Let’s Have Coffee, Purposeful Faith, #TellHisStory (with new host Mary Geisen), Recharge Wednesday, Faith on Fire, Faith ‘n Friends and Grace & Truth.

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