Thank You, God . . . even in this

LORD, these years of being a widow has been a learning experience.

Lessons I didn’t know existed before.

Even less did I know there would be tests to take. 

It feels almost wrong to say “Thank YOU”.

But Thank YOU . . . for the teaching.

For YOUR Patience with me.

For YOUR Kindness towards me.

I cannot say “Thank YOU” for the lessons.

Those lessons have come at a very high price. 

And honestly?

I miss Rick too much.

However, I am more dependent on YOU than I have ever been in my life.

I am also more alone now than I have ever been in my life.

It is in YOU that I live, I move, I have my being.

YOU are the Air I breathe

YOU are the Song I sing

YOU are the Hope in my soul.

GOD, I don’t want to move or breathe without YOU . . .

Not for eternal good.

Not for the sludging through this muck and mire of life.

GOD, I need YOU . . .

More.

So much more.

Well, the realization is more 😉

: John 15:5 – I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

• LORD, teach me how to abide in YOU . . .

: Ephesians 6:10 – Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the Strength of His Might.

• LORD, teach me how.

: Genesis 1:26-27 – Then God said, “Let us make man in Our Image, after Our Likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

• Thank YOU GOD . . .