From Deuteronomy 6:4-5:  “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.  You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.”

Busy with daily lives

Pausing now, do you hear?

As God listens, we should

Opening minds and ears

As God’s chosen, come close

Father waits with patience

Intently, carefully

Despite our impatience

Read His Word with earnest

Focus on, meditate

God’s living stone, breathing

Do you hear Him, so great?

His mercy chooses us

With never-ending love

Calling us from darkness

Finding God’s grace above

Face each hour with new hope

Follow with faithful steps

Lives chosen and precious

God waits at our doorstep

From 1 Peter 2:9-10:  “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.  Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”