Hi God,
Every year about this time,
I get to feeling pretty low.
I’m not a winter person.
Yeah, I know that variety
is the spice of life,
but the variety of winter
I could do without.
That said, I’m grateful
that every year about this time
I start hearing cardinals
on my morning walks with Brewster
and I begin to see Arcturus,
rising in the eastern sky,
on my evening walks with Brewster.
These are both signs
that winter will once again end,
and that I will once again survive.
Is this the kind of thing
Isaiah was talking about when he wrote,
“…but those who look to the Lord
will win new strength…”?
So my prayer today
is that you help us remember
even when things are cold and bleak,
that cardinals will sing again,
that Arcturus will once again rise.
They always have
they always will;
they will come to dispell our bleakness.
Also please have mercy on my soul,
sinner though I never cease to be.
Amen
scripture reference
Isaiah 40: 31