Rearview Mirror And The Windshield

For the LORD your God

    has blessed you

in all the work of your hands.

He knows your going through

    this great wilderness.

These forty years

the LORD your God

       has been with you.

You have lacked nothing.

             Deuteronomy 2. 7

(Looking backwards and all around,

through the wanderings, the ordinary,

the rough roads, potholes,

what was hard, what was joyful,

what appeared to be a deadend,

       detour or wrong turn,

the significant

   and the seemingly insignificant,

       both failures and triumphs.

God has been guiding, providing,

    and redeeming all along.

How we see the past and present

   empowers us to trust God

in the now and the next.)

O LORD,

May we look back

and not just see Your hand,

   but Your Presence,

even in the dark places,

even in the impossible.

You are with us.

You are still with us.

Help us to not dwell in the past,

    but to abide in You.

Right now. Even in this.

Be glorified, Almighty One.