Wondrous and Inspiring God, you have gathered people to you since the days of our forebears, with promises of land, law, belonging, and connection. As we think about what those promises require of us even today, we are also reminded that you promised for all time, and yet we are finite. We enter a world already shaped by those who came before us, and each day add our own small part to its story. Help us to recognize the holy in the ordinary ways we participate—in what we learn, what we share, whom we love, and how we care for one another. Help us to wonder what faithfulness might look like when we cannot accomplish everything ourselves . Open our hearts to what has been entrusted to us in this time and place, and help us become faithful stewards of it for however long it is ours to carry. May our worship today help us recognize the sacred story already unfolding around and within us. In your holy name we pray, Amen.