Precious Lord,
Help me take your hand. I feel so fiercely independent some days, and the reality is that I need to submit to your will. You have made me, fearfully and wonderfully crafted me from nothing. You have set me loose in this place, and prayed that I would choose your will for my life.
I am trying. I am trying to set aside my pride and my insistence that I know what is best. I am failing, time and time again, in my attempts to be humble and accept your will in my life.
Be my courage, on this day, to stand up to my own will and submit to yours.
Thank you, Lord, for this beautiful day, this blessing of blessings. Thank you for the love that surrounds me, for the encouragement that lifts me up, and the friends I rely upon to help me go forward.
Amen.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Wednesday
Gracious Lord,
You have taken everything that is bad about me and thrown it away, far from me. Help me understand that the path I need to walk is one that goes forward, not one that goes in search of everything you have cleansed me of. I am constantly going in search of these things, trying to find my way back to sin. Teach me and lead me, Lord, so that I may lean on you, rather than fighting to stand on my own, and that you may give me the strength I need to walk into the future you have prepared for me. I love you, Lord.
Amen.
You have taken everything that is bad about me and thrown it away, far from me. Help me understand that the path I need to walk is one that goes forward, not one that goes in search of everything you have cleansed me of. I am constantly going in search of these things, trying to find my way back to sin. Teach me and lead me, Lord, so that I may lean on you, rather than fighting to stand on my own, and that you may give me the strength I need to walk into the future you have prepared for me. I love you, Lord.
Amen.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Tuesday
Lord,
You have moved throughout time and offered glimpses of your grace and glory. Your power is written across the heavens and your goodness speaks through the trees and the flowers. All of creation sings its praise to you, and you wrap yourself in the light of the stars.
May I sing of your glory as well. May I humbly offer my life, my song, my human efforts to testify to you, to point to you, to proclaim you, O Lord. You are so much bigger, so much greater, so higher than me, and yet you chose to come to this earth so that I, so that we, might know of your love. May my life, just as the lives of the bears and the bees, be offered to you as a gift of love and thanksgiving.
Amen.
You have moved throughout time and offered glimpses of your grace and glory. Your power is written across the heavens and your goodness speaks through the trees and the flowers. All of creation sings its praise to you, and you wrap yourself in the light of the stars.
May I sing of your glory as well. May I humbly offer my life, my song, my human efforts to testify to you, to point to you, to proclaim you, O Lord. You are so much bigger, so much greater, so higher than me, and yet you chose to come to this earth so that I, so that we, might know of your love. May my life, just as the lives of the bears and the bees, be offered to you as a gift of love and thanksgiving.
Amen.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Monday morning
Great Lord-
As the rains fall and water the earth, you send grace to water my life. Sometimes I feel parched, dried up, and I wonder if you have forgotten me in my time of trials. Remind me that there is always grace, falling like rain, all around me. Remind me that, time and time again, I am sheltering myself in places where the rain cannot fall, rather than walk, boldly, into the rain and allow you to change me, to convert my life once again. Lord, be my guide and my strength, my courage, so that I may walk freely in the rain, knowing that you will fertilize and tend the soil so that new life may grow in abundance, life that testifies to you.
Amen.
As the rains fall and water the earth, you send grace to water my life. Sometimes I feel parched, dried up, and I wonder if you have forgotten me in my time of trials. Remind me that there is always grace, falling like rain, all around me. Remind me that, time and time again, I am sheltering myself in places where the rain cannot fall, rather than walk, boldly, into the rain and allow you to change me, to convert my life once again. Lord, be my guide and my strength, my courage, so that I may walk freely in the rain, knowing that you will fertilize and tend the soil so that new life may grow in abundance, life that testifies to you.
Amen.
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