Blessed are the people

   whose God is the LORD!

                 Psalm 144. 15

(Because God's people live

   on a different operating system,

   see with updated radar,

   respond not react,

   know and not just believe,

   strengthened in the ordinary,

       and faithful in the crisis.

Blessed does not mean

   picking our way

          through the broken places

  but bringing His grace there,

not defeated by circumstances

   but responsive to them.

The blessed live as an enigma,

    mysterious, puzzling,

    hard to understand,

            if not for God.)

O LORD,

Whether in the favorable

    or the overwhelming,

what are we learning in this?

What are we learning every day?

       That You are God.

And that changes

                  everything.

Help us to trust You

   in whatever is before us.