See, the LORD your God

has set the land before you.

Go up, take possession,

as the LORD,

    the God of your fathers,

has told you.

Do not fear

          or be dismayed.

            Deuteronomy 1. 21

(God has set this day,

       His day before us.

"Trust Me in this."

Fear and dismay

   always sets us

   in the wrong direction.

It cost the Israelites

             forty years.

Practice His Presence

     even in the little things,

which are never insignificant.

Carry not fear and dismay

  but instead your chronicle

        of God's faithfulness.)

O LORD,

We have not come this way

                   before,

but You go before us.

Help us to remember You

    throughout the day,

listen and respond

with faithfulness and grace.

You have set this day before us.

Help us to be faithful

in bringing Your grace to it.

Help us to trust You,

even in this.