Teach Us

Father,

This morning I pray you would teach us to laugh.

To laugh at ourselves. To laugh at the days to come because we do not fear them because you hold them in your hand.

Teach us today to hold things lightly. To hold things tentatively.

Teach us today to release everything to you. To let you do your work in and through us.

Teach us today to allow you to use every situation, regardless, for our good and your glory. Not for one minute allow us to think that something can’t be used or worked out through your sovereign power.

Teach us today to place all things in your hands that you might use them, discard them, sift them, repair them, strengthen them and rearrange them so that they become tools and benefits in the holy economy of your Kingdom.

Teach us today to trust you. That once we have released and relinquished these things to your care that we do not reach for them back, that we do not try to retrieve them from your hand.

Amen and amen.