And the people of Israel

did not remember

  the LORD their God,

who had delivered them

from all their enemies

     on every side...

             Judges 8. 34

(We all suffer from

   short term memory loss

when it comes to

        God's faithfulness.

He has brought us through

      in the past.

He is bringing us through

      even now.

Our enemies are anything we fear,

           both real and imagined.

Those times we recognize

and all the millions of times

we were totally unaware

of His protection and provision,

those times we

       explained God out of the equation,

and even when we did not understand

   what in the world God was doing

                 ....or doing now.

All are woven in our narrative

and our chronicle of His faithfulness.

God is not about to abandon us now.

God is not just there.  Past tense.

God is here. Very present Presence.

Remembering does not

            just affect the past.

Remembering very much

            impacts the present.)

O LORD,

You are here.

It is not that You will deliver us,

but You are already delivering us.

We just cannot yet see

          from where we are standing.

And sometimes we will not understand

              until the other side of life.

But we can know Your Presence.

Help us to trust You in this.

Even this.

Another level of knowing

               and trusting You.