A Prayer for Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Knowledge

O God,

We never know what’s coming;
we never know what the day will bring;
we never know what’s going on inside us;
we never know what’s going on inside others; and
we never know what our place in the big picture is.

For all of our knowledge, there’s a lot
more that we don’t know than we do know.

Still, there are things that we need to know.

We need to know that you are there;
we need to know that you are always with us;
we need to know that you love us;
we need to know that we love you; and
we need to know that our lives mean something.

Thank you that our knowledge can grow every day and
thank you that we are spared the burden of knowing everything.

Give us humility to accept what we can’t know;
give us faith to accept what we must know.

Thank you for your grace that makes it possible for us to know
that which it would seem most impossible for us to know.

Thank you for your grace that makes it possible for us to know you.

Amen.