Because of your grace, we are.
Because of your love, we act.
Because of your spirit, we pray.
Because of your gospel, we live.
Because of your presence, we worship.
Because of your welcome, we are transformed.
If it had not been for you, Lord,
We would not be.
So it was, so it is, so it will be,
For now and forever. Amen
This prayer was part of the Good Courage devotion for today. I love its simplicity and its poetry. I take comfort in the impression it offers of God, who is present as the source of all we truly need, to become who we are truly meant to be.
What is less comfortable, and comforting, is the soft-voiced reminder that because of that constant Divine Presence, transformation is not only possible, it is more than likely inevitable, if I am to continue to grow into the something, that until its season, in the words of a favourite hymn is an unrevealed mystery that God alone can see.
As the hymn reminds us, transformation is a matter of life and death. The new life is born out of change and loss.
Darrow Woods: Writer of Things 