Summer Blessing

Written By Pastor Cathy Hall Stengel

May God bless these summer weeks
Bless your joyful chaos of coming and going
Bless your love of sunlight and warm breezes
Bless the cool nights with bursts of stars
Bless your ears ringing with the play of children and parents calling them in or shooing them out,
Yes, even bless your ears with the sounds of lawnmowers and trimmers

May God bless the memories summer brings
Summer picnics wherever they landed
Trips to parents and grandparents
Reunions flooding our hearts with longing and leaving
Fishing or crabbing, I can catch a bigger one!
Travel games as fields and towns flashed by our smudgy car windows
Scout camp and vacation bible school, was it always the hottest week of the year?

May God bless our belonging…
You may come and you may go 
From home, from church, from work
As you are blessed, may we be blessed
When you bring blessings back to share,
Brightening worship with your presence
Your prayers and your just you kinds of gifts.

May God bless you this summer -
Pastor Cathy

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