PRAY

Gracious Father, giver of every good and perfect gift, in you alone we find hope. May your steadfast presence in our lives sustain us in all circumstances. Reveal to us anew the living foundation of eternal hope.

Isaiah 60:1–3

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

 

Isaiah 43:18–19

“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."