Behold,

I send an angel before you

to guard you on the way

and to bring you

to the place

         I have prepared.

               Exodus 23. 20

(How would we live

if we staked our lives

  on following Him into it?

Very different journey,

radically different outcome,

enormously deeper

   relationship with God.

The place He has prepared

    is for our well being,

for our witness to others,

     and for His glory.

More often than not,

      right where we are.)

O LORD,

You go before us to provide,

to protect,

to bring us to a place

    where we can trust You more

    and be faithful to You.

Help us, O LORD,

to be faithful in the now,

not always searching

           for the next

and missing out

  on what is right before us.

Why are we here?

For His glory.

That is enough.

Your Presence

       changes everything,

even if the circumstances don't.

Be Thou my vision in this.