Prayer Offered for June 15, 2017

Gracious and loving God, may we work this day as if everything depends on us, and pray as if everything depends on you. The following poem by Wendell Berry is called “This Day.”

Whatever is foreseen in joy

Must be lived out from day to day,

Vision held open in the dark

By our ten thousand days of work.

Harvest will fill the barn; for that

The hand must ache, the face must sweat.

And yet no leaf or grain is filled

By work of ours; the field is tilled

And left to grace. That we may reap,

Great work is done while we’re asleep.

When we work well, a Sabbath mood

Rests on our day, and finds it good.—AMEN