Morning thoughts & cries

LORD, teach me how to relate to others through YOUR Love, rather than mine.

Mine is so limited, full of flaws.

And no matter how hard I try to keep my own motivations and agendas out of it – they are still evident, at least to my own mind and heart.

LORD, I know I can never out-give YOU.

And I remember Rick preaching & teaching on us being a conduit of YOU – please, teach me how to let that be now in my own life.

How often lately I have cried out to YOU about being drained and empty, exhausted.

So many needs, GOD – and while I can’t do much, I do what I think I can.

But even that is not even a drop in the bucket.

And what I think I can is heavy with wondering if I could/should do more – trusting YOU with what I do, or don’t have, to give and to do.

I have cried out to YOU – this warrior is a child!

Many times.

I do so feel much like a wounded soldier in need of R&R!

Just to breathe.

Just to be still and be quiet.

But the times I try to be still and be quiet – they just aren’t restoring and refreshing.

Will YOU restore me?

Refresh me?

Revive me?

How do I rest in YOU?

Waiting in YOUR Love, in YOUR Light, in YOUR Presence?

Do I just wait?

How can I not waste the waiting time?

Is there something I need to do?

Or just let YOU do?

GOD, please – quiet me with YOUR Love . . .

: Psalm 36:5 – Your Steadfast Love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, Your Faithfulness to the clouds.

• Greater is HE Who is in me, than he who is in the world. Greater is HE Who is with me, than this emptiness and restlessness.

: Exodus 33:14 – And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

• GOD, if YOU aren’t in it, I don’t want any part of it.

: Matthew 11:28-29 – Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I AM gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls.

• LORD, I come to YOU . . . teach me how to take YOUR yoke upon me, and learn from YOU . . . please . . .