A Prayer about the Best Builder

Faithful Architect,

Ground us in this reality 

like bricks in a cement foundation. 

So often, we invest time and money and energy 

into building our dreams, 

whether work or families or relationships, 

placing the blocks one on top of the other. 

Nothing wrong with working hard and dreaming big, 

but when we forget that you are 

the architect, contractor, builder, and interior designer, 

we might as well be one-year-olds 

fumbling around 

with our twelve-year-old sister’s skyscraper Lego set. 

Thank you for not only building your house in us 

on the firm foundation of Jesus our Savior and Lord, 

but for watching over it and protecting it. 

We praise you and thank you 

as the great architect and builder of our lives. 

In Jesus’ grounding name we pray. Amen.

Read Psalm 127. 

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