Prayer

A Future Not Our Own

It helps now and then to step back and take a long view.
The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,

it is beyond our vision.

We accomplish in our lifetime only a fraction
of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.
Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of
saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession
brings perfection, no pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church's mission.
No set of goals and objectives include everything.

This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one
day will grow. We water the seeds already planted
knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects
far beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of
liberation in realizing this.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning,
a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's
grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the
difference between the master builder and the worker.

We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not
messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

i found this prayer on the internet and it had words i felt were there inside me but i could not have expressed it so well hence felt like borrowing so thus i have copy pasted the entire on my post here today. It would not be proper if i did not mention where i took it from because what i read there moved me further. Maybe because i was needy and thus was led there as i am led too generally when i am seeking. For whenever any thing pricks and am out of sorts i am led to somewhere. No not always do i roam cause sometimes i get my answers just on time in any article that i read in the newspaper and other times a song would start playing on the radio.  As if like i have popped some painkiller i feel okay once again . But this time i got my answer for the day here. Thus felt like providing the link for all to see and read.   http://www.journeywithjesus.net/PoemsAndPrayers/Ken_Untener_A_Future_Not_Our_Own.shtml

Just the same day on my walk i saw the long stem of the mustard plant emerging from the bushes of Nightshade...a single stalk with such lovely blossoms of mustard flowers...
And my thoughts again went to this Prayer..."This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one
day will grow. We water the seeds already planted
knowing that they hold future promise..."

Kept walking further and came upon this cute looking Hibiscus.                                                       

  Went a step ahead to have a closer view just to find that the texture even without touching registered like satin to the eyes and brain . 

The thought naturally took me to the Master and hence the thought itself became a remnant of the prayer, "...We are workers, not master builders..."

Returned home quite at peace but remembering part of the same prayer 

"We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of
liberation in realizing this.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning,
a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's
grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the
difference between the master builder and the worker..."