Father,

We greet this day in gratitude for the gift of life. Sometimes we get so caught up in surviving that we forget to thank you for the gift of being here and for the experience of life right now. To remember that life is a gift given by you, and that we can change things through our choices. It all looks differently when we remember that we are here to wake up and remember what it is like to be alive. Help us Father to reach a place in our life where we can truly live again. Where we appreciate the little moments again as precious blessings. Help us to feel fully alive again, and being fully aware of you as we go about our day to day moments. “Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.” (Romans 6:13)

Help us rise up so we can experience each moment as a truly living being. Lift us out of our concerns and show us how to fully engage with our world- as if we were fireflies in a jar with the lid off, and we just need to look up and fly out. Help us be able to see the openings so that we regard life not as happening to us, but to see it as, we are happening to life. We are your Children of Light and we shine outward into the darkness. “All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:3-5)

In humble service and in gratitude for this day,

In Jesus’ holy name,

Amen