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When you start to trust that your own good is in good hands, you start to relax and enjoy all the good given to the people around you.
“The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need.” Psalm 23:1
“Enjoying each other’s good is heaven begun.” Lucy C. Smith
I took a walk with an artist yesterday. She saw color and beauty in things that looked dull and drab to me. What if that’s how God sees?
“[T]o be a real ingredient in the divine happiness . . . to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work. . . .” C. S. Lewis
“The Lord . . . delights in you. . . . He rejoices over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17
When somebody hardly ever says thank you, it’s easy to freeze him there, but it’s a lot healthier (for both of you) to hope for change.
Lord, please draw ______ into the gladness of giving thanks. From 1 Thessalonians 5:18 and Song of Songs 1:4
“Thou hast given so much to ______; give one thing more -- a grateful heart. . . .” George Herbert
The shift from trying to protect the people you love to realizing that you don’t have to opens wide and welcoming space in your heart where all the fear used to live.
“The shift . . . from possessiveness to hospitality is God’s good and deep work.” Susan Currie
Lord, thank You for gradually moving _____ out of my hands and into Your hands, where she belongs. From Psalm 31:5
Sometimes discouragement starts to feel like home and forever, but it isn’t. Remembering that is one small, solid step forward out of the night.
“To trust is to step forward out of the night.” George Macdonald
Father, help me to choose light over darkness at every small crossroad, all day long. From 1 John 1:5
A friend of mine says that funerals teach her how to (and not to) live. They remind her that, in the end, me-first and you-first are as different as night and day.
“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced . . . give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.” M. A. Kelty
“[C]onsider others. . . .” Philippians 2:3
