our prayer bowls

I crawl between the cool white sheets just enough night air blowing thru the lace to allow for the comfort of the 'comforter' the end of the day in our bed 

one of our favorite, if not 'the' favorite place in the world

even better than the beach
no need to wash the salt and sand off afterwards...
actually the feeling of crisp clean sheets when going to bed
even if not in our own bed
after a day at the beach can actually rival the whole day spent on the beach!

something about bed.......

It's a comfort that is just taken for granted

but last night as I lie in bed
after our Tuesday night prayer meeting
I was totally overcome again, by God's awesomeness

we pray for so many things, safety, protection, healing
healing of huge things like re-occurring cancers...

we give thanks for so many things,
for the protection received in a car accident...
safe arrivals and journeys...

we ask for blessings on our activities and pursuits....

and He hears it all

responds to it all

and He alone is the One who is that help in time of need

when we are helpless

when so much is hopeless

my place to sleep, my clean, cool, safe, familiar place to sleep is a blessing.

as is my clean, cool, safe, familiar life

I wake in peace, pain free...

I eat, drink, shop for food as I desire
I neither plow nor sow!??!

I walk where I please in safety, travel...move about as I desire

I think of those without those luxuries and freedoms

children without food, clean water, safe places to sleep...

parents who cannot give to their children.....

I think of my Stephen Ministry patients...
some will be home in no time, back to enjoying their lives

some have no one, nothing, and no desire to live...

some are in such pain

have lost so much ability

and yet there is God

and we pray

and He hears...

will what I do in my little life
have any kind of impact in His work in His world?!?

and this little world that I do effect,
do I contribute as He would have me?

Is His purpose being accomplished thru me?!?

do I bring Him glory?

I see the hardness of my own heart,
the selfish ways I tend to protect myself with,
the ungiving, unloving,
complex rather than simple ways I relate or do not relate!

I pray one more thing, Lord, forgive me.

and the opening prayer from yesterdays Word Among Us

     Make your love the foundation of our lives

    and may our love for you 
    express itself in our eagerness to do good for others.

Agape love opens our hearts to love strangers among us.......

how do we love those we 'know'........