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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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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“Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.” (Proverbs 4:25) If you make overzealous resolutions today for 2024, in just a short while you will begin to pave the road to Hell with them. How about on this first day of January, 2024 you create Minimum of 2 “Resolves” for
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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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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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Dear LORD, as I close in on the end of this year, please give me a seeking heart to receive more of You. Help me as I make my petitions known to you to keep on asking and seeking and knocking on Your door…in a way which pleases You. I want to be a better
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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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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
Dear God, I reread the words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ‘I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day‘. There are many of us for whom there no peace on earth, in our homes, on our jobs, in our communities… Give me strength, as I move past Christmas Day, to gain the same hope Longfellow found in
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A Christmas Day prayer: Dear Father, please, this day, give me the same wide-eyed wonder and excitement I had as a six year old boy in red flannel footie pajamas when I bounded down the stairs on Christmas morning. As a grandfather, I pray for the same sense of awe when I celebrate the virgin
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