Father,

You’ve given us another gift, another day to experience the love that you have in store for us in the form of experiences. Thank you for working in our lives to make changes for the better. Thank you for turning up our Light inside of us, just when we need it the most. Thank you for being present in our world in a myriad of ways that we cannot always comprehend. Thank you for loving us so much and being our rock and our foundation. “‘Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,’ says the LORD, who has compassion on you.” (Isaiah 54:10)

Even if we cannot see you at work in our lives, you are there. When it seems like darkness has taken over all there is, you give us the strength to jump up and reach up for the higher branch on the tree of life and thus we keep climbing upward. You are the humming life force that flows within us. You are the intelligence that weaves the common thread of decency throughout humanity. You are the light that lifts us up. “Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?” (2Samuel 23:5)

When things in the world get stressful, Father, let us be kindness in the world. When the moment comes that we are given a choice, whether to put more love into the positive column or to add anger and resentment to the negative column, help us choose to be the Light and do the positive thing. Help us be Your Love in action today. There’s already so much negative. Help us be more loving, more forgiving so that we can have a peaceful loving planet for the future of our children and grandchildren. “Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail…” (Psalm 89:33-34)

In Lovingkindness,

In Service to the Light,

In the name of Jesus,

Amen.