Here’s a beautiful prayer inspired by Ephesians 1:3-14. It was written by Thom Shuman.
Only
“How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms
because we belong to Christ.” Ephesians 1:3
we sit down
with our sharpened pencils,
to chart out the
longitude and latitude
of your grace
only
to keep running
out of paper;
we tie a string
around each sin,
dropping them into
your sea of forgiveness,
only
to discover we can
never plumb its depths;
we scrabble and scrape,
push and pummel ourselves
from Land's End to John o' Groats
on our self-planned journey,
only
to find
we are at the
starting point
of your Way;
how foolish we are
to try to limit you
by our imagination
only.
— copyright © 2009 Thom M. Shuman. Posted on Prayers4Today. http://prayersfortoday.blogspot.ca/
with our sharpened pencils,
to chart out the
longitude and latitude
of your grace
only
to keep running
out of paper;
we tie a string
around each sin,
dropping them into
your sea of forgiveness,
only
to discover we can
never plumb its depths;
we scrabble and scrape,
push and pummel ourselves
from Land's End to John o' Groats
on our self-planned journey,
only
to find
we are at the
starting point
of your Way;
how foolish we are
to try to limit you
by our imagination
only.
— copyright © 2009 Thom M. Shuman. Posted on Prayers4Today. http://prayersfortoday.blogspot.ca/
