A Daily Prayer

Father, year after year our lives are marked by change which brings growing transformation in our lives just as You rotate the seasons of the calendar bringing about distinct change in the weather pattern transforming all of nature.  As Solomon writes, there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.  Our pilgrimage includes a time for gain and a time for loss, a time for plenty and a time for want, a time of understanding and a time of perplexity, a time for listening and a time for speaking, a time for searching and a time for finding.  In the midst of all these changes we are assured that You do not change, for You are the same yesterday, today and forever.  And in all these changes we are assured that You are working for our good, for we know that in all things You work for the good of those who love You, who have been called according to Your purpose.  We thank You for Your immutable nature that remains when all else changes.  Amen.