”Your lovingkindness and graciousness, O Lord, extend to the skies, Your faithfulness [reaches] to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, Your judgments are like the great deep. O Lord, You preserve man and beast. How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; And You allow them to drink from the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life [the fountain of life-giving water]; In Your light we see light.“
Psalms 36:5-9 AMP
https://bible.com/bible/1588/psa.36.5-9.AMP
Gracious Lord,
I love you, even when …
I am in pain.
life seems like it’s going wrong.
I don’t know up from down or In from out.
I have no answers to my questions.
You feel so remote.
I feel like I am worn slap out.
Lord, I know that you love me with an everlasting love. You want to give me a heart of flesh instead of a heart of stone, but my heart of flesh is aching. I am feeling so very sad and full of regret. My birthday approaches and Tennessee Ernie Ford’s 16 Tons is echoing in my head. I survived another year, and what do I get? Another year older and deeper in debt. In Your goodness, I know that You have a plan for me and my life. It would be amazing if You would share it with me. I am doing what I think I should be, and I am not feeling good about it. I trust You one hundred percent. If l am on a wrong path, please let me know. I want to know that I am walking in Your will. Nothing feels better than being close to You. You are amazing. You are remarkable. You cause all things to work for my good. But, in this time of waiting for You, I am feeling alone and forgotten by you.
I love to see Your creation coming back to life after Winter’s gray and cold. The blooms make my heart smile. But, then thoughts of my allergies kicking in steal the joy I take in seeing the daffodils. Please guide me out of my personal Winter into a glorious Spring.
Please heal my body and heal my heart.
Amen.
Journey with Monica 