Our Father...
Our Father God, I begin this day, both with thanksgiving and trepidation. On the one hand, I want to grow in every spiritual and material way possible. This desire to move from where I am to where I need and want to be puts me at odds with hackneyed habits that define and describe my life. Scripture reassures me that You have not given me a spirit of fear. Instead, You have bequeathed me with power and love and a sound mind. Why, then, have I awakened today feeling some kind of way, as people ask now? In fact, I awake most mornings this way more often than not! I am compelled to seek You, Father, for it's only through the Holy Trinity that the strongholds I've erected may be diminished or demolished. "Of myself, I can do nothing but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me " become both sentinel an d refuge. Help me, Father, to fully embrace the truth that You are God who controls everything. For much too long I've offered these words but