A Moment With Pastor Fred

We live in days of uncertainty, don’t we?  The prayer below was sent to me by my dear daughter-in-law during a time of uncertainty in her life. A friend had sent it to her – and she sent it to me which I pass on now to you.  How it encouraged and spoke to me. It is called “A Liturgy for Seasons of Uncertainty.” 

“In the midst of whatever follows, O Lord, let me meet your mercies anew, and anew and anew.

In the midst of my dismay, fix my eyes again and again upon your eternal promises. How this ends – that is up to you. If the next news is favorable, I will praise you for the ongoing gift of life.

If tomorrow’s tidings are worse, still will I proclaim your goodness, my heart anchored ever more firmly in the eternal joys you have set before me. 

And when, whether days or decades from now, you finally bid me rise and follow you across the last valley, I will rejoice in your faithfulness even there. Especially there – praying Thy will be done and trusting by faith that it will be done. That it is being done. Even now.

Even in this disquiet, I am utterly yours, O Christ. In the midst of this uncertainty, I abandon myself again to you, the author and the object of all my truest hopes.  Amen.”