My heart of full of gratitude today. I am grateful today for life and health and for a loving wife. I am grateful for children and grandchildren for whom I pray by name today for protection and for their personal faith in You. Please build a hedge of protection about them to keep the Evil […]
Good Morning, LORD!!! Read More »
Good morning, LORD. It is so good to be alive today. Thank You for health and home. As we lit the Advent Candle yesterday, anticipating all the events leading to the birth of Jesus, I am driven to my knees in gratitude for You trusting Yourself to the arms of a peasant girl in Judea
O, my Father, my heart goes to those memories which have been closed by death during this season when we commemorate Your visible appearance to us all those years ago. As I recall names of those who have preceded us into eternity, thank you for ever being the Great I AM. Thank You for the
Immanuel…ever in present tense! Read More »
…Soon it will be Christmas day…goes the song. Follow on to last week’s Nugget. How will you celebrate the day this year? Will it be just be business as usual? Lights up right after Thanksgiving, tree up early in December, drag out and dust off all the ornaments, shop til you drop for aunt Sue
Giving and Gettin’… Read More »
Dear LORD, my God and Father, as we draw closer to the day when we celebrate the once in history of Your coming to be living as one of us here, take my heart to the hillside with the shepherds who watched their sheep. Recreate in me the same sense of awe and wonder which
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My LORD and my God, I am such an insignificant part of Your great creation, here but a fraction of time and space. I am ever amazed how You have orchestrated my life here and now and all that had led up to my birth and life. As You were with Noah, and Abraham, and
With us…then, now, forever. Amen! Read More »
Dear heavenly Father, thank You for the inexplicable love You have lavished on us…on me. When disappointments come this season, help me remember Who You are. You wanted me to know I am loved with an everlasting and eternal and sacrificial love. Remind me this season to love You like You first loved us. I
Thank You for loving me enough to send Immanuel Read More »
Father, as I see in they eyes of my mind how a teenaged Jewish girl birthed Immanuel in a hay trough, I can see through her eyes what it was like to hold Your Son. I can only imagine how she must have felt as she raised this little boy and saw him grow to
Forgive me LORD for not being a better parent… Read More »
Father, God, please do not let me forget that Your Advent was one time for all time. As I meditate on Your magnificent gift sent as a tiny baby, I am overwhelmed. Father, help me make this day and every day about holding Jesus up and making Him visible to others. I want to be
Immanuel…present in My Heart. Read More »
Dear LORD, in our world torn by strife in so many places, I pray for PEACE…not just the cessation of hostilities, but for real Peace from Jesus and His promises of old to be Prince of Peace, Everlasting Father. Bring comfort even now to war torn Gaza and Ukraine even as we pray for peace
In this 2nd week of Advent Read More »
