Tuesday, December 16, 2008
A Warm, Soft Spot
Dear Lord, It's a cold, white, frigid world outside, but in my heart I have a warm, soft spot fashioned by you when you entered there. You keep the fire alive, and the desire to spend time with you in our secret place. It is there that élan fills my being and stays with me through each busy day as I...
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Monday, December 15, 2008
The Road To Somewhere
Dear Father God, Lord above all, you look down upon us and see that we are feeling our way along this life in the dimness of our lack of understanding but in the flickering light of faith, and you have mercy and compassion. Everyone is on the road to somewhere, and every road somewhere ends. For...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Options
Oh Loving Father, You are my God, the source of all life. You created me, and you have chosen me; you have rescued me when I would selfishly go astray. You have redeemed me for your own glory. And yet, I could have said, "No!" because you loved me enough to let me make my own choice. Choosing to...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven
Today, Dear Lord, little children are on my mind-- little children who have loving parents that care for them and provide for them and lift them up to you in prayer to keep them safe and well. For those parents I thank you, O God. Little children are also on my mind-- who suffer untold miseries by...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Please To Put A Penny In The Old Man's Hat
It is cold out there, O Lord God, and the night was even colder-- a wind chill down around zero, and homeless people, many of them children, with no place to go to keep warm. There are people who have lost their homes to foreclosure, and people who can't afford to heat their homes-- like the home...
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