Lord in heaven, thank you for giving us your word!  As a passage from today’s reading assures us, “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”  We thank you, then, for these prophetic words revealed in canon scripture.  But we thank you as well for your word revealed in every walk of life.  We are grateful to find your word as we stand in awe before the wonders of creation; or explained in anointed words from an inspired sermon or devotion; or received as spoken words of truth from one gifted with prophetic vision; and even your whispering that comes softly to us in the stillness of moments of prayer and devotion.  Give us Holy Spirit discernment, we pray, to recognize and receive your inspired word in every medium that it inhabits.  To our Lord be the awesome glory for His eternal word!