Give Us This Day

 
Since the One we follow said
“To do my Father’s will
is Daily Bread,”  [i]  
then – how to grasp, to hold in sight,
that given piece
and walk each day a-right?
 
Moments and occasions fly…
I try, but not enough, or don’t,
or just forget,
then look in fright
at how the time has sped
while choice and choice
were Other-wise instead.
 
And now indeed I wish to hear
“the still, small voice”  [ii]  
Isaiah promised near
behind me, guiding, in my ear
“This is the way; walk in it,”  [iii]
when I “would turn
to right or left”  [iv] 
just for a minute….                                     
 
How can my ears not hear,
or eyes not see
the Bread so blessed,
the Portion and the Lot  [v] 
designed for me?
To do His will, my simple task:
to walk “that Way”  [vi]  is all I ask
 
(2000s)
 

[i]   John 4:34  –  “Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work .’  ”

[ii]   Isaiah 30:20 – “No longer will your Teacher hide himself, but with your own eyes you shall see your Teacher .… ” 

[iii]   Isaiah 30: 21  –  “… and your ears shall hear a word behind you :  ‘This is the way; walk in it…. ’  ”  

[iv]   Isaiah 30: 21  –  “…when you would turn to the right or the left.” 

[v]   Psalm 16:5,6:
“Lord, my allotted portion and my cup,
you have made my destiny secure.
Pleasant places were measured out for me;
fair to me indeed is my inheritance.” 

[vi]   John 14:6  –  “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’  ”