Surrenderings
Here we surrender to render.
Aware, alert.
Attentive to Your address.
We offer ourselves,
available,
ready for Your riddles.
We show up
every morrow
of each today,
towards tomorrow.
We welcome another day.
We present ourselves,
reporting to work,
saying ‘Here!’
Here we are.
To do what is here to be done.
To say what is here to be said.
To go wherever we can serve.
We report to the post
where we have been posted,
willing here, wherever,
for this and whatever.
Here, present!
Drifting, anchored,
changing, constant,
in this instant,
ever onward.
Now,
here,
we give ourselves
to Your grace,
to Your mercy,
to Your Goodness,
to You.
We believe and trust
in Good and Grace,
call it God
or something else.
We entrust our day
to Your omniscience.
We fill ourselves
with faith,
with fervor,
trusting, cheerful.
With hallelujah and amen,
with joy and praise,
with love and thanks,
we present to this Your place.
We, the five-fingered ones,
turn to You with reverence,
with devotion,
pulsating with life,
looking for light,
vibrating with yearning,
ready for learning,
wandering this globe,
eager for love.
When tired, may we find rest
in the embrace of Your grace.
When weak, may we find strength
in the embrace of Your grace.
When hurting, may we find relief
in the embrace of Your grace.
When ill, may we find healing
in the embrace of Your grace.
When sad, may we find consolation
in the embrace of Your grace.
When discouraged, may we find hope
in the embrace of Your grace.
When stressed, may we find ease
in the embrace of Your grace.
When angry, may we find peace
in the embrace of Your grace.
When afraid, may we find refuge
in the embrace of Your grace.
When lost, may we find home
in the embrace of Your grace.
In Your embrace,
all is well, fine.
In Your wise mind,
we’re all divine.
In Your warm hands,
I’m placing mine.
We present here to help.
We pray for Your help.
