daily prayer

    Good morning! How are we faithing? The times that we all have when we feel despair deep within ourselves can make good times unpleasant and can make even the rudimentary things seem like drudgery. I can remember peaceful mornings as a child from 3-4 yrs old all the way till high school when the sun came cracking over the horizon, the dew on the grass, the smell of a new day, the bird songs and the furry critters scurrying all over. It was peaceful tranquility that made me realize just how great and loving God is. It is probably why I am such a morning person now. When I feel peaceful my mind goes to the "ropes" at the foot of Hermon mountain. Places that God spoke with his wonder and love still appear in my minds eye. Many different things speak of God's love and his creation is indeed a source for wisdom and peace. Do you remember solice and warmth at different places? When we seek God in all things we find that he truly is there and when we have a relationship with him, his creation comes so alive in so many ways. Walk this week with your eyes wide open to his grace and beauty that long lasting memories of that peace stays with you. Just think about this today and this week...

Psalms 42:5-8
Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.
O my God, my soul is in despair within me;
Therefore I remember Thee from the land of the Jordan,
And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Thy waterfalls;
All Thy breakers and Thy waves have rolled over me.
The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me in the night,
A prayer to the God of my life.
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Psalms 133:3
It is like the dew of Hermon,
Coming down upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the LORD commanded the blessing-- life forever.
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Heavenly Father,
  Thank you for your comfort in the good times and the bad. Show us how to seek you out in everything. Lord we bless you and honor you. You are our rock and we seek you and ask you forgive us when we allow bad things to permeate our thinking. Teach us to put all those things in perspective and to remember your love for us all the time. We lift those in despair to you. Show yourself in your creation so we cannot deny your grace and love. Thank you for your son who loved us enough to lay his life down so you could look upon us and not see sin but him. We reach out to you knowing we lack but want to please you. Guide us this week and open our eyes to your splendor and create memories that provide peace and understanding all our days. In Jesus name we pray, amen