Prayer - O Wake

O wake, my soul

and linger

In the moments

as the dawn

Gives way to the bustle

I try to hold back a yawn

My spirit

sits in silence

As my body starts to move

I often forget that all I am

is from you

So as the skies

turn clearest blue

and coffee steams my cup

I listen, I can hear a bird

Announcing to its babies

“time to get up”

And I need that same revelation

As old bones creak

with that first stretch

Realizing all I need

is found

In the depth of my heart

where I am fed

Not by worldly sustenance

Or the worms, 

like my friend the bird

But through the living presence

of the creator of this world

So I shed my hesitations

I cough, clearing my lungs

Pray to a God I believe in

as this day has begun…

06/06/25

clc

“Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.”

Psalms‬ ‭105‬:‭4‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.”

Psalms‬ ‭19‬:‭1‬-‭4‬ ‭NIV‬‬