The sun shines on us another day, O Lord. Thank you for this day to cover more important ground on our journey. To serve as your beacons and spotlights. In this time of change, we see the writing is on the wall and we shine our lights on it. Each of us is another floodlight, turning on and pointing at the truth. To burn out all the remaining power the darkness can muster, to tell the darkness it’s time is up.

And so your light shines.

As we take-in all the sun-drenched resplendence, Father, we realize this is a whole new ballgame. We are to leave our old ways of thinking at the door as we step over the threshold. We’re not going backward because we cannot anymore, only forward. Your Grace carries us on the wind, in the current of your vast ocean of Love. We will never go backward again, and there is much comfort in that. We believe in the promise of a better tomorrow, therefore we choose to live a brighter today.

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11) Nothing will stop us from the bright future that is ours. We step into our shoes and look back only to learn from what we see there, to use it to make our future better, brighter, happier, healthier, more loving, giving and safe. “Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.” (Colossians 3:9-10) May we be the sharpened expansion from the light of knowledge and wisdom we gain every day, in order to put our hands to better service, always in service to you, Father.

Let it be so,

In Christ’s name,

Amen.