Prayer To God About Beginnings and Endings

 Each day as I sit down to my computer to pray and prepare for this little to video I wonder what God will put into my mind in my heart.

Some travel restrictions are being lifted for those Canadians who are fully vaccinated.  Although many industries are longing for a further loosening of travel – particularly across the US/Canada border – even these little bits of change feel positive as compared to where we were 6 months or a year ago.

As I reflect on the beginning and hopefully the end of this season of the pandemic I’m grateful to remember that God is the beginning and the end of all things and is holding everything with loving care in between.

That gives me great comfort today and I trust it will You as well.  Let’s pray:

I am the Alpha and the Omega says the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. 

Revelation 1:8

We’re so grateful God, that You are the Alpha and the Omega, the one who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.  That truth puts everything else in our lives into perspective and fills our hearts with a settledness that nothing around us is doing these days.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Hebrews 13:8

We are thankful that as we go through this day that You are the God who has come close to us in Jesus Christ and that Your unfailing love displayed through Him is true and available to us today.  When we fail you have promised us forgiveness through Jesus. 

Where we feel distant and alone You bring us close to You and one another through Jesus.  Where we feel weak and wonder if circumstances will overwhelm us we remember that we have the same mighty power in us that raised Jesus from the dead. 

Jesus Christ is the same in us and for us – yesterday, today, and forever.  We allow our hearts to be settled in this solid truth.And while we are unsettled by the ever-changing conditions of this pandemic after so many months here in our area and around the world and what seems to be a very long season of uncertainty and trouble we want to remember today what Your Word reminds us so clearly:

In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. But you remain the same, and your years will never end.     Psalm 102:25-27

We don’t know how things will go in these next months.  Quite frankly we don’t even know if we will live or die but we do know that:

For this God is our God forever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.  Psalm 48:14

And so once again today we give You thanks that You are with us every day, that You are watching over us with great attention to every detail of our lives,

and You are journeying with us, making all the power of heaven available to us to face whatever challenges come our way. With a great Saint from hundreds of years ago, St. Ignatius we pray:

Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, my whole will, all that I have and all that I possess. You gave it all to me, Lord; I give it all back to you. Do with it as you will, according to your good pleasure. Give me your love and your grace; for with this I have all that I need.  Amen

Well when God has

everything that we are he takes good care of it.  The beginning, the end, and everything in between.  Let's give Him that opportunity today and enjoy the day while He does it. Enjoy the little pond behind me.  We love coming here. Enjoy it.