Hungry, I come to you, for I know you satisfy. I am empty, but I know your love does not run dry.
So I wait for you. So I wait for you. I’m falling on my knees, offering all of me.
Jesus, you’re all I’m living for.
Broken, I come to you, for your arms are open wide; I am weary, but I know your touch restore my life.
So I wait for you. So I wait for you. I’m falling on my knees, offering all of me.
Jesus, you’re all I’m living for.
By Kathryn Scott
I have been singing these words since service on Sunday. I can’t get them out of my head, I don’t think I want to get them out of my head, my mind, my heart and my Spirit have become weary.
For a couple of months we have been witnesses to so much illness, pain and death, from the Covid-19 virus to the surmounting injustice. All I can say is that we are a broken and hurting people. When I find myself wondering what can be done to change this or any situation, I believe I must first ask God to show me where the brokenness is within myself, calling it, naming it, and allowing God to begin the healing process within me. I believe in times like this we all are called to ask God where in our lives we need to be changed. Is it our words, thoughts, actions or the lack there of? If we are not open for God to show us what needs to be done and willing to do the hard work then our faith, our words, our actions become stagnate and mean nothing.
Spiritual work is not easy, it’s a journey, it’s often painful. Confronting our standard ways, catching and stopping ourselves and or our family and friends, putting yourself out there to say “that’s unacceptable” and stand for the marginalized within our circle of influence is what we are called to do and who we are called to be. For what has the Lord required of us? To do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with God. (Micah 6:8) We all have influence somewhere, it may not be huge or mighty. You may think you are not powerful enough to make any difference,but God’s strength is made perfect in our weaknesses (2 Cor. 12:9).
So may I ask of all of you if you will join with me, to go before God and offer ourselves, to lay down what needs to be changed within us at Jesus feet so that we may be renewed as a people of God so we may go forth into a hurting world and be the change we believe there should be. Lord in your mercy…
Creator, open our hearts to peace and healing between all people. Creator, open our hearts to provide and protect all children of the earth. Creator, open our hearts to respect for the earth, and all the gifts of the earth. Creator, open our hearts to end exclusion, violence, and fear among all. Thank you for the gifts of each day. Amen.
A Native American prayer
Blessings,
Brenda