Not by might,

nor by power,

but by My Spirit,

says the LORD of hosts.

Who are you,

O great mountain?

Before Zerubbabel

you shall become a plain.

And he shall

bring forward the top stone

amid shouts of

"Grace,

     grace to it."

          Zechariah 4. 6-7

(And to those things

so overwhelming,

do we shout

       "Grace?"

Or come before them

   with shouts of worry,

and stress

and boatloads of anxiety?

It is not in us

to overcome by ourselves,

but by His Spirit.

May we call on the LORD

to cover and saturate,

to heal and strengthen,

to seek Him

to infiltrate by His grace.

All of us have

unscalable mountains

of one sort or another.

And God says to each,

"My grace is sufficient.")

O LORD,

When we are weary,

            You know.

When we are overwhelmed,

   You lead us

through the impossible.

When we seek and shout

         "Grace to it!"

we see the situation

              differently,

because we see You

             differently.

You have been here

all along,

and we did not know it.

Even in this.

Help us not to sense

Your Presence with us,

but to stake our lives

                  on it.

You answer us

in our days of distress

and are already with us

wherever we go.

Even in whatever

we will face today.