Prayer for grandmothers: Woman at the Well

Father, You have said, "Seek my face."
My heart has answered, "I will seek Your face."
That small conversation has happened in this house for many years.

The seeking has grown quieter as I have aged.
There are fewer bright flashes now.
There is more steady looking.
Your face has not changed.
Your face is not farther away.
My heart has been trained by long years to know where to look.

Let me keep the appointment again this morning.
The Bible on the table.
The few minutes before the kettle whistles.
The willingness to be turned, gently, by whatever You show me.

The face I am seeking is the face Your Son turned
toward His disciples,
toward His enemies,
toward the woman at the well.
That same face turns toward this kitchen.

Let the seeking and the finding be the work of these next quiet minutes.
Then I can carry the face I have seen into the rest of the day.
It will keep me steady when the faces of the world demand my attention.

Amen.