Monday Daily Prayer

May 18, 2020

Gracious God,

I am tired. My weariness bubbles up from my bones into the daily living of my life. My heart is heavy from the absence of my faith community, my soul weighed down with rocks of unrest.

This time of isolation, of wandering in a wilderness of waiting, is so hard. The days are long, the nights are sleepless, and friends and family feel so very far away. What does it mean to rejoice in these days?

Teach me, O God, to rejoice always; to find even just slivers of contentment that resemble something like joy. Tune my heart to sing your praise, so that the practice of learning to be content with what I have turns the ordinary experience of life into “streams of mercy, never ceasing,” and let the songs of loudest praise be the symphony you are writing with my life in this time.

I wait with a heavy heart, I look for you with a hopeful soul, and I will praise you with my whole life.

Through Christ, my hope and peace,

Amen.

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Submitted by:
Sara Robb-Scott, Pastor for Senior Adults and Pastoral Care, First Baptist Decatur