My Lord,
Thank you for your continued beauty and grace. It's been bitterly cold and we have had so much snow lately, but now, it's starting to melt away.
We are so spoiled. We don't like it when it rains. We don't like it when it's too hot. We don't like it when it's too cold. We just want what we want and forget all about Your predestined plans for us and the entire universe!
Help us to see your beauty and grace in all the seasons. The crops need your tender loving care and so do the animals. Many need your beauty and grace, if nothing more than to lift our spirits from time to time.
There is something so beautiful about raindrops. Not to mention the chance at a rainbow sighting. I, for one, even love the flashes of lightening that can come with the thunderstorms.
I love the burst of sunrise followed by a really hot day. If we are dressed accordingly and get a little shade somewhere in the midst of it, it can be a really beautiful thing! Not to mention, the butterflies and flowers that can accompany it.
The cold gives me the chance to praise your holy name for all that you graciously provide: things like soup, hot beverages, blankets, heat, pjs and even fireplaces, if we're blessed enough to have one.
It also gives us a chance to sit still. Prayerfully, we use that time to also come to the throne and to seek you in those moments of stillness.
And the snow.....I absolutely love the first snowfall and the tiny white flakes falling from your kingdom above. There is a gift and a blessing that comes with the quiet blissful snow. It is certainly a "Peace Be Still" photo and real life Psalm.
Yes and Yay!
Even cartwheels that today it a beautiful 48 degrees. The sun is bursting through my window and it makes me smile because it's your "hello" to those who are paying attention.
Father, I love you and I am paying attention!
Prayers: Diana's homegoing service, Veronica, the shooting victim's, Shayne, and many who are in need of healing. Father, the need is great, but YOU ARE GREATER!
Eternally yours
