One Day at a Time

O LORD . . .

I remember when Rick and I were worried, scared, and struggling so greatly with our future.

What to do, where to be.

Health, money, bills, vehicles, housing, jobs.

And I remember when YOU spoke so clearly to both of us.

That early morning when we sat on the back of the car, looking up into the stars. 

One day at a time.

Enough for today.

When YOU reminded us of how the Israelites lived for 40 years in the wilderness, gathering manna for ONE day at a time.

GOD, only YOU know and understand how hard that life is – One day at a time.

My nature is to plan, to have my nest secure for the next however many days-years of my life.

This whole one day at a time is for the birds! 😉

And yet, isn’t it the birds that JESUS used to teach this very lesson to HIS disciples and the people who were following HIM?

Sigh.

GOD, help me to choose YOU.

YOUR Nature.

Even in this.

As a widow, for 9+ years now, and I’m still not any better at living this way.

Even though it has been the lesson I’m stuck on, going round and round and round all over again.

Think I will ever “get this” so that I can move on to something else?

Sigh.

YOU are my Security and Sure Thing.

Where do YOU want me today?

What do YOU want me to do today?

How do I stop trying to work things out before their time has come?

How do I accept the limitations of living one day at a time?

How do I release what is not for today to YOU, to YOUR care?

I mean, really let it go.

Just let it be for another day, another time.

Living life close to YOU isn’t complicated or cluttered.

Except for my humanity screaming and pounding, getting in the way, hindering a lot more than helping!

Greater is HE Who is in me, than he who is in the world.

YOU have said that in this world we would have trouble – and boy do we!

BUT GOD – YOU also said to be of good cheer, that YOU have overcome the world.

YOU are my Peace in a very messy life.

Please, BE my Prince of Peace today.

Take over – this life is too much for me.

In JESUS’ NAME I ask . . .

: Ecclesiastes 3:1 – For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

• LORD, help me know what “time” it really is. And to live in that “time”.

: Ecclesiastes 8:6-7 – For there is a time and a way for everything, although man’s trouble lies heavy on him. For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?

• GOD, YOU know. Please, help me be this child that I am, and hold to YOUR Hand. Cause YOU are already there.

: John 16:33 – I have said these things to you, that in Me you may have Peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart, I have overcome the world.

• Please, BE my Peace. Please, help me let YOU 😉