Monday, April 18

Isiah 42:6

Isaiah 42:6 "I am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by
the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations . . ."
When all is said and done, what we must learn above all is to offer ourselves- imperfections and all-to God. If we keep waiting until we are "worthy" of God, we will move
farther rather than closed to God. It is through our broken, vulnerable, mortal ways of
being that the healing power of the eternal God becomes visible to us.
We are called each day to present to the Lord the whole of our lives- our joys as well
as sorrows, our successes as well as failures, our hopes as well as fears. We are
called to do so with our limited means, our stuttering words and halting expressions. In this way we will come to know in mind and heart the unceasing prayer of
God's Spirit in us. OUr many prayers are in fact confessions of our inability to
pray. But they are confessions that enable us to perceive the merciful presence of
God.
Prayer- Lord, instead of worrying about the times when I can't pray and when I'm discouraged, I will try to turn them into opportunities to trust you alone.
By Henri J. M. Nouwen in Renewed for Life edited by Mark Neilsen published by Creative Communications 2011
~Pastor Jen Williamson