Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in You. Show me the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul. Rescue me from my enemies, O Lord, for I hide myself in You. Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; may Your good Spirit lead me on level ground (Psalm 143:8-10).
Dear God, Today I just want to take time to thank You for old friends; friends from younger years and through different stages of life. Oh how they helped teach me, encourage me, and enrich my life. Sometimes their influence was not so good, other times it was wonderful. We learn from our mistakes as well as the things we do right. Each friend has been special in their own way. Some have gone on from this earth to be with You. Others...well only You know. I pray for those who still trod this earth. I pray for their souls and their lives; that they will be Yours and You will bless them. I pray for their special needs, that You will meet each one in the way You know best. I pray that they will feel this prayer on their behalf and experience a gentle breeze from the moving of Your Holy Spirit and receive the message and the blessing You have in store for them. Thank You, friend above all friends, my Creator and Savior. In Jesus' name, amen.
Thank you, John Fischer, for some beautiful examples of how our eyes in Christ look at things we experience in our lives...
A follower of Christ looks at:
death and thinks life, losing and thinks winning, tragedy and thinks opportunity, brokenness and thinks humility, accidents and thinks purpose, coincidence and thinks destiny, despair and thinks hope, poverty and thinks wealth, wealth and thinks poverty, failure and thinks success, the seen and thinks about the unseen, history and thinks God's story, science and thinks God's laws, psychology and thinks Christ's wisdom, anthropology and thinks God's image, astronomy and thinks God's heavens, the human body and thinks God's dwelling place, war and thinks man's rebellion, the cross and thinks everything made new, truth and thinks Jesus.
A little glimpse into the wild and wooly world of me, my husband Ben, and six of ten children between us. Much fun is found in our home as we grow together as a family, and embrace the chaos that surrounds us! We are Christ followers and desire nothing more than to bring glory and praise to Him who reigns supreme.
Dedication
In loving memory of our beloved daughter and sister, Sara Elizabeth, who was born and died on February 13, 1998.
Sara is absent from our life today, but her memory touches each of us deeply, and daily. And so it is I choose to honor her here.
We look forward to that wonderful day when we are reunited to spend eternity together. Oh what a day of rejoicing that will be.