Help! I've Fallen and Can't Get Up

 

I was pushed hard,

so that I was falling,

but the LORD

       helped me.

        Psalm 118. 13

(We live in a broken world.

God does not promise

    that we will not fall,

  but that He is with us.

He reaches out His hand

     to lift us back up

     on our feet.

This hard situation

was not meant

      to tear us down

          or define us,

but to realize His strength,

our own fragility,

and form something

    Christlike in us.

God never meant for us

    to do this life without Him.)

O LORD,

Thank You that when

     we trip and fall

     and fail

     and get hurt,

You are there

         to build us up.

Help us to keep our eyes

           on You,

not derailed by distractions,

    success, failures,

      potholes or sheer cliffs,

  but seeking You in this.

You help us up.

You help us through

  to a different place

  in You.