Happy Thursday everyone! I set aside Tuesday and Thursday to publicly give thanks and share with you what I believe is so important in anyones and yes everyones life. The skill of having gratitude and sharing it with oneself and others. This day is no exception.
I try to go through my day expecting anything, the good, and the not so good.
The blessings in life are great. The joys and happiness can be a high. But there are always waves in life. Sometimes you ride them to shore, these waves, and sometimes they crash down against you.
In baseball, you stand at the plate, eyes wide open on look for you pitch. Sometimes it is a perfect home run ball, sometimes not most of the times not. But every once in a while a high fastball inside, coming for your head. Often you dodge it but sometimes at 90 miles an hour it will clip you. Painful, you bet, you want to charge the mound for payback sometimes, but often you just take it, make a note and move forward.
I have had these moments in life, so will you.
After one of these moments , I walk it off, and think it over. What could have I done better, how will I learn from this. Why did this happen?
It is not what happens in our lives that matters most. It matters how we overcome that thing that happens to us. How we learn, how we grow.
So I give thanks for that email that I open on my Iphone and the prayer that follows below.
Share this one with another as I share it with you.
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Relax your mind and humble your heart to focus on Christ. Allow
God to be the only person on your mind while you read this prayer.
If we can take the time to read long jokes, stories, etc., we should give the same respect to this prayer. Friends, who pray together, stay together.
Lord, I thank you for this day. I thank You formy being
able to see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed
because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God.
You have done so much for me and You keep on blessing me.
Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or
thought that was not pleasing to you. I ask now for Your
forgiveness.
Please keep me safe from all danger and harm. Help me to
start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude.
Let me make the best of each day to clear my mind so that I
can hear from You.
Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control
over. Let me continue to see sin through God's eyes and
acknowledge it as evil. And when I sin, let me repent, and
confess with my mouth my wrongdoing, and receive the
forgiveness of God.
And when this world closes in on me, let me remember
Jesus' example -- to slip away and find a quiet place to
pray. It's the best response when I'm pushed beyond
my limits. I know that when I can't pray, You listen to
my heart. Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others.
Keep me strong that I may help the weak.. Keep me uplifted
that I may have words of encouragement for others. I pray
for those who are lost and can't find their way. I pray
for those who are misjudged and misunderstood. I pray for
those who don't know You intimately. I pray for those
who will delete this without sharing it with others.
I pray for those who don't believe.
But I thank you that I believe.
I believe that God changes people and God changes things. I
pray for all my sisters and brothers. For every family
member in their households. I pray for peace, love and joy
in their homes that they are out of debt
and all their needs are met.
I pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no
problem, circumstance, or situation greater than God.
Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight.
I pray that these words be received into the hearts of every
eye that sees them and e very mouth that confesses them
willingly..
This is my prayer.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.
God will bless you. Know that you are already blessed by
the person who shared this with you.
No one stands as tall as a
Christian on his
knees.
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Thanks to Lisa F. who shared this with me and others yesterday. May you find comfort in this little prayer.
May you share it with another.
And pray on it often.
Till Next time ..... Smile, watch for those waves and cast not your pearls to where you know they will be discarded and thrown away.
Just learn from it and move forward.
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