Whoa! Let the games begin.......

2:30pm

Friday...27 Jly '12

        For whatever the reasons, this olde man has always enjoyed the Olympics for all of my 70 years.  I'm looking forward this evening to watching the opening ceremonies of the XXX Summer Olympics from London with good friends.

        With all the great and good things...and all the crazy and hurtful things...going on in our world this very moment, there is something to this spectacle that every couple of years proves that our world can come together, briefly, for a moment or two in cheering on the future and common good.  Would that we all would be better at helping that continue...right where we are.

        Stepping deeper into this day, with the lingering ache of the Aurora, CO tragedy of just a week ago, and thinking of all those athletes, families, coaches, etc., in London, I am encouraged, one more time, by the words of Ted Loder, in his exceptional book, Guerrillas of Grace...Prayers for the Battle, pg. 116:

        I Tremble on the Edge of a Maybe.......

        O God of beginnings,

        as your Spirit moved

                over the face of the deep

                        on the first day of creation,

        move with me now

                in my time of beginnings,

                        when the air is rain-washed,

                                and the bloom is on the bush,

                                        and the world seems fresh,

                                                and full of possibilities,

                                                        and I feel ready and full.

 

        I tremble on the edge of a maybe,

                a first time,

                        a new thing,

                                a tentative start,

        and the wonder of it lays its finger on my lips.

 

        In silence, Lord,

        I share now my eagerness

                and my uneasiness

                        about something different

                                I would be or do;

        and I listen for your leading

                to help me separate the light

                        from the darkness

                                in the change I seek to shape

                                        and which is shaping me.

 

Comments

[Sherley]

Beautiful! just what I need! Thanks for sharing that.