But the God of my father

    has been with me.

              Genesis 31. 5

(These two words

    make all the difference

    into the trajectory of life:

             But God...

Recognize the

  chronicle of His faithfulness

and His Presence

  even in mystery and suffering.

Underlying all experience,

               God is with me.

               I am not alone.

This is not the end of the story

   but that which God redeems.

It is not just in the extraordinary

  that God miraculously intervenes,

but even in what we consider

              the ordinary,

     even when we miss His hand.

Because supernaturally

    is how God always works.)

O LORD,

We miss out

because we do not recognize

      Your hand,

      Your designs,

      Your intervention,

      and Your Presence

             in all things.

You are with us.

May Your abiding in us

   change our hearts

that we are not paralyzed by dread

      but delight in

   storming the castle with You.

Help us to fulfill the obvious,

to be sensitive

     to the invisible,

and have shoes tied on

   to respond immediately

     to Your voice,

not just willing

    but heart and hands ready,

eyes on You,

to step into the needs

        all around us

                        today.