Daring to be Restless

“Every morning, Lord, I lay my gifts before you and look to you for help.   And every morning you hear my prayers.” ~ Psalm 5:3, ERV It is the fifth day of January in a brand new year.   And this morning found me doing what I normally do in the morning – laying in bed, reading through the daily allotted Scriptures on my reading plan, trying to stay awake.   It was terribly normal.   And yet it didn’t remain normal.   Because today, in a translation I had never read it before, I stumbled across this verse – Psalm 5:3.   And something in me jumped, startled.   Did you hear the prayer in that verse, the passion, the intentionality and the desperation for God to move.   The psalmist writes, “Every morning, Lord, I lay my gifts before you and look to you for help …”   Everything I’ve been hearing about lately has been about identity, about knowing who God created you to be, about looking at the talents and the passions God has laid on your heart and growing them with discipline for the