Dear God...be with me in this path called LIFE

Dear God, 

As I attempt to slow down my breathing with each breath that you've given me, 

As I try to stop my feet from running with errands and side-trips and dropping off and picking up, 

As I pause my brain to refresh and take in …slowly… all that I see and hear and is wondrous around me…

Be with me this week…. 

Be with me and all of my messy mistakes, all of my tripping, all of my stumbling, 

Be with me and all of my wrong words, my wrong turns. 

Be with me and all of my bad decisions, my poor judgments, my weak moments. 

 Be with me and all of my losing my patience, misplacing my keys,  mis-judging someone else.

Help me to remember all of the good of all of my family,  all of my friends, all of my things I have… Even all of the things I have  - and don’t need. 

Help me to remember that some don’t have anything… some seem to have it all… and I have been given what I need. 

Be with me as I navigate this path called life….. the one that I get tangled up in every once in awhile… the life I get caught up in… all the good, and all the bad.  All the gifts I have been given… and all that I need to be forgiven for. 

The path that sometimes seems smooth sailing… and other times hits me in the gut like a wretched storm in the deepest and darkest of seas.

 The path that sometimes sees the best in other people, and  sometimes shows off the worst of me. 

Be with me as this path called life brings me utterly to my knees when I am in awe of an evening sunset and the glow everlasting  -not on the horizon ,but in my heart…. Be with me on this path called life when shock and sadness literally takes my breath away in pain and in  disbelief.  

Be with me on this path called life.. when I pause, and give thanks for all that I have, all that I am, and all that has been given to me.  The bad, the good, the lessons, the losses, the prizes, the tears, and oh of course the laughter… the love, the light, and the grace that somehow seems to always find me…even when I am hiding in the deepest of crevasses; or standing high on a mountaintop reaching for the galaxies above…..however and wherever I am on that path  - surround me. 

Thank you for this slowing down moment in time… thank you for this slowing down with gratefulness… thank you for this moment in time .. with gratefulness. AMEN