Your promises I welcome, numerous and good,
but the blamelessness I simply cannot manage.
Perhaps, O Perfection, we can come to a different arrangement?
I could give you my fear and awe — easily;
my name and faith, too — several times over;
but human things, O Holiness, are the stuff of life I cannot forfeit.
If you insist upon dazzling me into submission,
requiring my shame and suffering as testimony,
then I’d rather get behind you, O Way, for the sweet chance of becoming lost.
Let the ends of the earth remember and worship;
tell tomorrow, and yesterday, and today to bow.
Abraham is still trying to count the stars, O Satisfaction, as am I, as are we all.
Hope is the true inheritance of disappointment
passed on to the next generation for better odds.
Come, O Ancient Covenant — not with your proposition but with your fulfillment.
on the Revised Common Lectionary texts
Good Morning Rachel,
Particularly love the last two stanzas of this prayer. Love the thought of “bowing down” to yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Also love and appreciate the thought of “Hope is the true inheritance of disappointment.”I will be “carrying “ that thought ; the reality that “disappointment” does not have to be “the last word.” Certainly, this IS the reality of Easter and yes, the fulfillment of Jesus’ promise, God’s amazing plan.
Thank you~ always, for sharing the gift God has given you to “put words to “ the messages from God!!💗
Hi again Rachel,
In rereading “covenants” I realize that I “made something different” from the lines “Tell tomorrow, yesterday and today to bow down!” In rereading I see more of the sense of “ put aside whatever the thoughts or events of “those days” are. Be certain that God is in control; that Abraham is still counting the stars and that we can all “take hope” in the promise of God’s promise.