The hand of the LORD

    was upon me,

and He brought me out

in the Spirit of the LORD

and set me down

in the middle of the valley;

    it was full of bones...

And He said to me,

"Son of man,

        can these bones live?"

And I answered,

    "O Lord GOD,

             You know."

             Ezekiel 37. 1, 3

(What in the world

    am I doing here

in this barren, forsaken place?

The point is not what I see.

   It is what God knows.

God breathes life

      into the impossible.

God says,

"Now watch what I do with this."

His love and faithfulness

are not limited

     by what appears.

God redeems.

            Even this.)

O LORD,

Help us to see things

             differently today,

not as a place of despair

and difficulty and hardship.

But to look and respond differently

        as a believer in You.

Breathe Your power

     into this situation

     that appears lifeless.

Even among the dry bones,

   Your love and faithfulness

   change the landscape,

not just our view of it

   but Your reality in it.

O Lord God,

           You know.

Help us to be faithful

  even in what

  we do not yet see.