We show up here in this place
weary from what drains us
and yet somehow awake,
full of to do lists and worries we know too well
and yet hungry for what we do not know.
We gather in your presence
with hopes and fears that compete for our attention
with desires you have put deep in our hearts
and with desires we’ve allowed to distract us from joy.
Help us, loving and mysterious God,
to see how you show up
in wondrous and irritating ways
to comfort and challenge us
to patiently form us
and endlessly transform us.
Make us strong in love,
deep in faith,
and inexhaustible in hope.
Guide us in our time together
and give us the strength to let ourselves be guided.
Amen.
by Z. M. Willette
