One of my colleagues shared this prayer by Ted Loder this morning at our staff meeting.

"O God of beginnings, as your Spirit moved over the face of the deep on the first day of creation, move with me now in the time of beginnings, when the air is rain-washed, the bloom is on the bush, and the world seems fresh and full of possibilities, and I feel ready and full. I tremble on the edge of a maybe, a first time, a new thing, a tentative start, and the wonder of it lays its finger on my lips. In silence, Lord, I share now my eagerness and my uneasiness about this something different I would be or do; and I listen for your leading to help me separate the light from the darkness in the change I seek to shape and which is shaping me."

I tremble on the edge of a maybe…….powerful image, powerful words. Do you find yourself trembling on the edge of a maybe this day? Frankly, I find myself swimming in maybes as I believe our country and world is as well. ‘Maybe’ is a teeter-totter word……things could go this way…or that. Who knows? Maybe is filled with hopes and dreams, with possibility and opportunity. Maybe rests in the ‘not quite’ and ‘almost’. Maybe can be a place of terror or transformation.

For each of us who tremble this day, O God, May you Be in our breath, in our heartbeat, in our waking, in our waiting. May you Be in the courage we need, in the restraint we must exercise. May you Be in our weeping and in our overflowing laughter. May you Be the creative spark that leads us to the brilliance we  need to possess. As we walk in the Land of Maybe, May you Be a light and the life that lives in this prayer. May you simply Be………………..and may we know it to the depths of all that trembles and quakes.