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Written by Brian Morykon, a contemporary writer and director of communication for Renovare (an organization for spiritual formation).

As a recovering perfectionist, I crave order. When there’s disorder inside or around me, I become irritable and controlling and try to force order upon myself and others. That’s when the Spirit nudges me to the woods and stream behind my office. There, roots of trees jut out intertwined above the stream, the underground unveiled mid-air.  There, I come into what Wendell Barry calls the “peace of wild things.” There, I see that God isn’t afraid or in a hurry, that the Kingdom of God is wildly in order, and that I don’t have to carry everything I’ve been carrying—at least not alone. There, I can pray for the wide world and my little world and enter back into both with a little more hope.

Prayer:

Today’s prayer is from the PC-USA Book of Common Worship.

O Thou who has ordered this wondrous world, and who knowest all things in earth and heaven: So fill our hearts with trust in thee that by night and day, at all times and in all seasons, we may without fear commit all that we have and hope to be to thy never-failing love, for this life and the life to come; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.