Dick Ivey

Today… it is personal…

O, my Father. Today I pray for my friends Kathy and Patrick and for me. Precious children of yours experiencing medical procedures and issues. Please give Your healing presence through the hands of the medical professionals as they serve us today. I pray Your will and way for us today in the strong and matchless […]

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I am Yours, O LORD…

God help me today to read my life like I read Hebrew…from right to left. Help me see how each detail and experience and circumstance which has led me here serve to create just the mosaic You intended. Bring to my consciousness that every detail of MY life is under Your control. Moreover, everything fits into

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Roll up your sleeves!

OK, LORD, time to get to work. Please protect me from the twin heresies of ‘oh, if only…’ and ‘one of these days…’ Help me today to focus on today, and what You will for me to do to please You. More than anything I want to know after I trade this day of my

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This next year, I resolve to…

Live One Day at a Time–Life is not a dress rehearsal.  Time cannot be saved.  Let’s learn from our past, look to the future, but live in the NOW!  Make it happen Today.  When you have traded this day off for something, make sure you didn’t leave anything on the table–that the trade-off was worth

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Winding down…Winding up!

O, my Father, as this year winds down, my mind starts rehearsing all the things I need to do or the things I didn’t do this year—going over and over the same things in my thoughts. Some times I feel like I’m practicing for a part in a drama. Help me instead keep my mind

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Traveling Grace…coming home

God of Grace and Glory, I honor Your name today on behalf of all those who are traveling on the highways and airways and seaways. Please protect families, including mine, from harm and accident. Give sharpness of eyes and ears and situational awareness wherever they go. Please keep my children and grandchildren safe as they

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Grandchildren…

Dearest Father, my LORD, I sit here this morning relishing 83 Christmases. Where has all the time gone? It just seems like yesterday when I was small. Now our grown children have grown children of their own. The circle of life shrinks and time marches on. Thank You for the memories, but please let us

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