Prayers for you and me
Sleep escaped me again so spent a few hours re-reading 4+ years worth of spur notes and letters. It’s crazy how easily I forget about all the many people who were there for me throughout my life, the ways they were praying for me, encouraging me, challenging me, affirming me, and all in all, loving me.
Tumblr isn’t the best way to share this prayer but I currently lack the courage to reach out to everyone who I would like to say this to in person so this will do for now.
God, you alone remember everything that has ever happened, all the ways you’ve used us to touch each other’s lives, even if it was only for the briefest of moments. We thank you for the relationships that we still have. For those short touches (which are especially so sad for us since we have no idea if our paths will connect again) I pray that even in our sorrow we will still praise you.
For the people who are no longer a part of my life, I desire to be reconciled (if necessary) and to be able to see them again if not now, then definitely when the new heaven and earth comes. But I also trust that you hold their lives gently in your hands and that your will will be done in their lives. May we all run the race and at the end be told “you have done well, my good and faithful servant.” Isn’t that the best we can hope for?
Thank you that you are good, even if I am stubbornly unable to see or understand it. May you open each of our eyes today to the wonders of your work and may we be able to glorify your name day after day. We are blessed beyond our capabilities to understand but may we be able to understand even a fraction more of it every day.
Amen
