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The harder you try to be in control (of health or tomorrow or somebody else or whatever), the farther you get from perfect peace and tranquility and contentment.
“You keep in perfect peace and tranquility and contentment the one who trusts You.” Isaiah 26:3
Father, help me today to stop trying to be in control. I want to trust you instead and rest.
There’s something a little scary about eye contact (unless you’re a child).
“Many of our hearts carry deep wounds . . . open wounds. Anguish to think that someone could touch them. . . . I refuse to look at others for fear they might look back.” Jean Vanier
“Jesus looked at him and loved him.” Mark 10:21
When you start to see how very much you need to change and you don’t know how, it’s okay.
HOW: honesty, openness and willingness to try (Unknown)
“The Lord . . . guides. . . .” Psalm 23:1, 3
When you’re learning to live one day at a time, it helps to notice how often you don’t. Just watch yourself today (with compassionate eyes).
Father, please free me to eat and enjoy every bit of today’s daily bread.
“Give us each day our daily bread.” Luke 11:3
Everybody you meet (in the mirror and elsewhere) is weak or needy or sick in one way or another. The only question is whether you’ll choose to welcome or to judge.
“Welcome the one who is weak or needy or sick, granting access to your heart. . . .” Romans 14:1
“Why do you judge. . . ?” Romans 14:10
The more you make yourself at home in God’s love today, the freer you’ll be to enjoy the folks around you (instead of using them).
“I have no desire to fill my God-sized hole with you.” Unknown
“Make yourself at home in My love.” John 15:9
