Appropriate Footwear

 

...take your sandals

            off your feet,

for the place on which

   you are standing

         is holy ground.

          Exodus 3. 5

(Wherever we are

    and whatever we are doing

        are sacred in God's sight.

Even here.  Even in this.

Do we see appointments

    and encounters

    and even ordinary tasks

           as times of worship?

How would we approach

    this very situation before us,

not just recognizing God is in it,

   but as an opportunity

        for an outpouring of worship?

We are anointed and appointed

   to divine prearranged meetings,

invited to assignments

     that don't even appear holy

  to bring Him glory there.

What we wear

                    is worship.

Worshiping God changes us

   and always impacts others.)

O LORD,

We face our ordinary tasks

  and the unexpected today

          with a fresh heart

  and Your strength in it.

Grant us the awareness

  to worship You

  in all we do today,

in what we say,

  in how we respond to others,

and in how to navigate

  troubled waters with Your grace.

Help us to come before Your altar,

   lay our weaknesses there,

and take up Your glory

            into our world.