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Father, please make me attentive today. I don’t want to miss even one small gift.
“When we are inwardly dissipated through busyness . . . and preoccupation . . . we cannot be attentive to the gifts that arrive each day.” Brennan Manning
“[A]sk, and it will be given to you. . . .” Luke 11:9
Do-not-fear is just another should unless God cares more deeply than you can imagine. If He does, do-not-fear is the kindest of invitations.
“The very hairs on your head are all numbered. Do not fear. . . .” Luke 12:7
Father, if You count each hair on my head, surely You long to see me whole and fearless.
Trying to please yourself is a losing battle. As soon as you get what you want, you’ll want more. Maybe joy lies elsewhere.
Father, help me to see that doing what pleases You is the only thing that will ever truly please me.
“I always do what pleases [the Father].” Jesus, John 8:29
Sometimes the very things that break our hearts lead us home.
“When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him . . . but when he confides to us that he is ‘acquainted with grief,’ we listen, for that also is an acquaintance of our own.” Emily Dickinson
“He was . . . a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.” Isaiah 53:3
If you saw yourself today with compassion and grace, would that be a big change?
“The Lord is compassionate and gracious. . . .” Psalm 103:8
“I am strongly of the opinion that 95% of us wish, deep down, that we were someone else.” Dr. Archibald Hart
What if we had eyes to see ourselves (and each other) the way a good parent sees his child – as if he were already whole and unmarred?
“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. . . .” Ephesians 1:18
“It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.” William Gurnall
