Not Just a Repair Job

 

When the LORD restores....

         Psalm 14. 7

(The word restores does not

appear as future tense

  --something in the

unforeseeable time to come--

   but first person present.

Past, present and future

  are intimately woven.

God is incredibly already at work,

  not just in the process,

  but in the completion.

God does not just repair

  and glue together

  the broken fragments.

God redeems.)

O LORD,

We pray not for restoration,

    but pray to You.

We cannot know

      how the pieces unfold

      or are divinely fit together,

  the visible, the unseen,

  even what does not yet exist.

But we can know

           and trust You.

Your redeeming

   is never limited just to us.

Please help us

  to keep our eyes on You.

Even in this.