The God who yearns and waits for us

We are strange conundrums of faithfulness and fickleness.
We cleave to you in all the ways that we are able.
We count on you and intend our lives to be lived for you,
     and then we find ourselves among your people
     who are always seeking elsewhere and otherwise.


So we give thanks that you are the God
  who yearns and waits for us,
     and that our connection to you is always from your side,
     and that it is because of your goodness
     that neither life nor death
          not angels nor principalities
          nor heights nor depths
          nor anything in creation
               can separate us from you.


We give you thanks for your faithfulness,
  so much more durable than ours.  Amen.


                      Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth (c) 2003
                      Prayers of Walter Brueggemann, p. 135.