Forty years

You sustained them in the wilderness,

and they lacked nothing.

Their clothes did not wear out

and their feet did not swell.

               Nehemiah 9. 21

(We all have a

    chronicle of God's faithfulness.

God did not promise that

              life would be easy,

   but "Do not fear. I am with you."

The wilderness does not mean

  we made a mistake or a wrong turn,

  not His absence,

                but His deeper Presence.

Walk with Me there.)

O LORD,

We don't even have to look back

   to know You are with us.

We have no need to fear

     what is now or what is next,

   because You are still with us.

You have sustained us

     through unlikely places.

You will bring us through

    whatever we face today.

Help us to bring Your name there.

And may we witness and experience

       Your wonders,

even here,

even in this.