Be careful to obey

all these words

that I command you,

that it may

      go well with you

and with your children

      after you forever,

when

you do what is good

   and right in the sight of

the LORD your God.

        Deuteronomy 12.28

(What we do,

how we love God,

how we respond to Him

   --or don't respond--

radically impacts our lives

and those who come after us.

There are

     no small obediences,

no insignificant everydays,

no choices that

        do not matter.

Responding to God

    changes far more

    than we can imagine.)

O LORD,

As we enter this new week,

please lay before us

Your plans and designs,

Your daily appointments,

Your glory to be revealed.

Help us to write Your name

   at the top of this week,

   at the top of this day,

   at the top of this task,

that You may bring

        Your glory to it

and fulfill Your purposes

that are far more

   than we can see from here.

Help us to be faithful

                to You.

Help us to be aware

of the opportunities

         all around us

to bring Your name here.