We want to be ready, we plan and prepare,
But the future’s a fog, and we can’t see where.
We can imagine. We might think we know,
But God holds the map of the way to go.
We pack up our tools for a job that won’t come,
And trip on the tasks that we thought would be none.
Yet all of our mistakes and all of our tries,
God turns into lessons and makes us more wise.
We cling to control, but how easily it slips,
Like water that runs through our fingers and drips.
But when we let go, then God’s presence can steer,
And suddenly pathways grow shining and clear.
Like Moses with a staff that was nothing new,
God said, “Hold it up, and I’ll show what I’ll do.”
So too in our lives, when we don’t understand,
We find we’ve been guided by God’s gentle hand.
The wind, it blows wild, and we cannot quite see,
But we feel its effects on the land and the sea.
Such is God’s presence … we don’t always know,
But later we look back and say, “He made it so.”
So pray without ceasing. Keep seeking his way,
He’ll give you the strength you need for today.
Step after step, he is shaping your story,
Preparing you to move from “glory to glory.”
