Here is a call

for the endurance and faith

of the saints.

          Revelation 13. 10

(That pretty much

sums up 2020,

a year

no one ever expected.

But it is also a year

to which we are called

in the midst of hardship,

despair

and crisis,

to that which we are

called every day

to be faithful to God.

Others are continually,

desperately watching

to see if God is real,

how we respond to crisis,

and how we love them.

Does anyone see

any difference in us?)

O LORD,

For Your strength

we pray,

for Your wisdom

we call to You,

for You

      we seek.

Please grant to us

the endurance

and faith that we need

and to which

       we are called,

right where You have

strategically placed us

in time and place,

in hard situations,

and in a broken world.

Even in this,

bring Your glory to it.

We may not understand,

but we can know You.

There is always

something far deeper

going on.

May others see

Your love and grace

in us today,

our hope in You

on which we

   stake our lives.