Creator of All, you are the Light of morning
you are the comfort in the dark.
Thank you for the way you greet us today.
We are in awe of your mighty hand –
painting the sky and forests for us
sending the river across the rocks
hurling through the bends of current running…
refusing to be stopped, living fully.
We are in awe, Lord, of your strength and mercy
your covenant and forgiveness
your certainty and freedom.
Thank you for loving us
even as we try to make you into
the image that we can comprehend.
We misunderstand your greatness.
Please keep surprising us
with your mighty hand making
all things new.
New in our hearts and minds
New in our communities and in your world.
We love you. We trust you completely.
We yield the day, the week,
our lives…into your hands.
Amen.
A cold winter day in January with lingering snow on the ground is a good invitation for prayer. After a week of pause in yielding to nature’s course, the days may hold too much. It doesn’t all have to be crammed into Monday, or even Tuesday. Faithfulness to a day’s work is enough. The past week is not “lost”, it was provided. Playing in the snow or reading a good book, even dealing with busted pipes, it all “counts” as fullness in living.
Take the day and live it. Fully. With tears when grief is present. With laughter and all out joy if that gift is offered. With strength and mercy, compassion, and wisdom. Carefully. Fully. Humbly. As one deeply loved, even when you don’t know it.
Life in the Deep End 
Love this…..🥰 Thank you! Love to your Mom-think of her often and hope she is doing well.❤️