Oh how I love Your Word!

It is my meditation

                all the day.

...Your Word is

       a lamp to my feet

and a light to my path.

            Psalm 119. 97, 105

(Consider not just

       what we do,

but what it does to us.

Reading and meditating

        on God's Word

does not just check off a box

       or obligation for the day.

God's Word infiltrates

      our neural pathways

and changes how we think,

what we think about,

   and on what we dwell.

God's Word radically alters

  how we see circumstances

     --the ordinary and the crisis--

     and how we respond.

We see differently

  because we see God differently.

Steps and paths emerge out of what

            appears as sheer darkness.

God does not just guide our steps

       but our hearts.)

O LORD,

Help us to embrace Your Word

and know that You

     change us incrementally

     every time we open

              our hearts to it.

You change us through it

  and thereby,

       everyone around us,

how we respond

              to circumstances,

how we treat others,

how we love and serve You.

We do not ask for You enter our day,

but that we would follow You

and be faithful

           into Your day for us.