Sunday, September 28, 2014

Today’s text

Psalm 25: 5-6

Lead me in your truth, and teach me,
   for you are the God of my salvation;
   for you I wait all day long.
Be mindful of your mercy, O Lord, and of your steadfast love,
   for they have been from of old. 

Morning praise

A long way I have traveled,

not only in miles and years

but in emotion and truth.

Love and fear,

hope and despair,

ecstasy and bitter

disappointment. I

have known them all,

sometimes on the same day.

I have breathed rare air

of giddy joy, beyond

any my younger soul

imagined.

I thought this was life

in truest form,

hoping for more,

thinking something was

wrong with the world

or me when, disappointed,

I fell from the heights.

Moments, wondrous moments,

Which I savor and to which

memory and heart cling,

thankful for what I

have known, learned, felt,

filling me with the beauty

and gratitude.

Each ascent to heights of

of human joy occasions

its own unique fall. Each

fall is more gracious still;

an awful grace it is, never

without pain, but grace

it is still … because

I fall into you,

the Mystery who is Love,

steadfast and sure.

Every road, every mile,

every height and fall,

every hope that fails,

finally, takes me back

to you where I find myself

and know

that no matter my emotion

I was never really lost

and never will be.

Nothing is lost to your love;

everything finds it's place.

Pr.  David L. Miller