PB heat

Focus

I remember one summer, as a child,

racing back and forth barefoot,

between my house, my cousins’

and my neighbor’s hearing snatches

of adult conversation, “Dog days.”

“Is it hot enough for you?”

And I thought, yes it’s hot.

I hadn’t noticed. I was too busy

doing all the things kids do in the summer.

Lord, that’s what I want worship to be like.

So focused on You that Your glory places

the heat of the world’s cares in the background.