messy, saturday

Saturday, March 21

Opening Prayer: O God, disrupt, disturb, disorient, do whatever it takes to make us into the people and the lovers you desire for us to be.  Amen.

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Journal: What is your thorn?  Is his grace sufficient for you, even in that?

Reflection:

              undone

 

years and years of hard work

diligently putting it all together

piece by piece

thinking all is well

progress is being made

 

but then you

come and scramble the whole picture

leaving pieces scattered everywhere

                      

you smile lovingly

as i sit in the middle of the mess

knowing that i don’t know

knowing that i’m undone

and thinking to yourself

now that’s progress

Prayers

Closing Prayer: Why, my soul, are you downcast?  Why so disturbed within me?  Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.  My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.  Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.

     By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life.  I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me?  Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”  My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

     Why, my soul, are you downcast?  Why so disturbed within me?  Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. (Psalm 42:5-11)