But if the LORD

   creates something new...

           Numbers 16. 30

(Live in expectation

    not of what God will do,

but how He is already doing.

Even if we do not see it

            in our lifetimes.

Even if it is not something new

          but His faithfulness revealed.

God creates something new

   even right where we are

maybe not in circumstances

         but in our hearts.)

O LORD,

Draw us to You

that we may see clearly

      and differently

both in what is known

            and unknown,

what is both familiar

            and strange,

what is common

    but never mundane,

what is extraordinary

    right where we are.

You are our helper,

You are the upholder

              of our very lives.

May we recite, repeat, engrave

and practice daily

            Your Presence

from our first breath of the day

    to the vespers at sundown.

Whether we see anything new

                 at all,

You are still God.

You are still working.

You redeem.