As this day begins, I am still very tired. Surely I’m not alone.  About 120 of us have been serving in support of local Christian churches in Maine for Dawson’s Chapel Choir Tour 2017, Show the Love. 

Since arriving Friday night, we have worked (manual labor HARD work) for eight hours on Saturday; led in a community worship service then staffed a block party for several hours on Sunday; ministered in four different nursing homes, then traveled to LL Bean to present a concert, followed by offering a Parents Night Out for area church planters complete with a meal and babysitting for their children. It has been wonderful, but exhausting. 

I’ve sat down now to seek a word from the Lord as activity slowly begins around me this morning. My mind has wandered to the sure-to-be-equally-exhausting event to follow this one, Animate at Samford. Very quickly my faithful Abba Father reminded me of something I had read on the plane while traveling to Maine:  

“For Christians the beginning of the day should not be burdened and oppressed with besetting concerns for the day’s work. At the threshold of the new day stands the Lord who made it.”  -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

Almighty God, Creator of this day and all that is to come in it, we are weak, but you are strong. Fill us with your Holy Spirit. Grant us the ability to remember that even youths grow tired and weary, but those who hope in you, Lord, will renew their strength. Help us soar on wings like eagles today, run and grow not weary, walk and not be faint. As we go, may everyone we encounter experience the love of Jesus Christ.