a prayer for restoration.

I can see broken rubble all around. Walls are half-way standing, half-way crumbling. Windows are shattered to pieces too many to pick off the ground. The sky is gloomy and a cold wind is blowing. We have let it go for too long in the power of our own hands. Patch up jobs and quick-fixes can't withstand a hurricane. We tried to take a set of perfect plans and create it on our own. Why did we try and work our way around the codes and plans set out from the beginning?

Have we made too many mistakes? Made too many wrong decesions? We are tired and weary.

God give us strength... Strength and the ability to love just as You love us. Give us rest in you and peace in knowing that you are bigger than the storms that come our way. Though we are two imperfect people trying to follow a set of perfect plans, God we know that it is in you and through you that something brought down to rubble can be restored to a beautiful and victorious temple. Only by You. Let us learn to put each other first and not live selfishly. Heavenly father, we know you will take care of our needs. Help me to see him through your loving eyes, Lord. To see all the wonderful things you created in him so that I may know his heart. You demonstrate your love for us by giving every thing you had to bring us back to you. I pray that we are reminded of that beautiful example of love you have laid out for us. Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of something so amazing. You are mighty to save, Lord. Your love is limitless, your grace is endless, your mercies are renewed every single day. We are the anti-thesis of love and all things glorious, but by You, we are restored. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for never giving up.