Tuesday, June 14, 2005
MORNINGS
MORNINGS
Contributed by Sally I. Kennedy
" ..the Lord's great love....his compassions never fail. They are new
every morning."Lamentations 3:22-23
This morning I rolled out of bed with my eyes not quite open, and
headed for the coffee pot. It might have resembled sleepwalking as I
began unloading the dishwasher. Routinely, I stacked the cups and
glasses to put in the cupboards. That was when I noticed a coffee stain
in one of the mugs. Uh huh, there were only a couple of plates in the
bottom of the dishwasher, too. "Oh, no!" I thought. "I hate it when I
do stuff like this, especially early in the day." A morning person I'm
not, to which my family and friends will quickly attest.
Everything went back into the dishwasher. I finished loading and ran
it. Out of the corner of my eye, now much more open, I saw our daily
calendar on the counter with the scripture verse for today: Proverbs
17:22, "A cheerful heart is good medicine".
Into my mind popped, "This is the day that the Lord has made; let us
rejoice and be glad in it!! Okay, so I started getting the message. And
yes, it WAS a glorious day.
Mornings; they're like new beginnings. And thank God He is gracious, in
His great love and compassion, to give us plenty of those. All we need,
in fact.
That's good news.
Contributed by Sally I. Kennedy (boca7565@bellsouth.net)
Author of "52 Little Parables from Ireland" (Creation House Press)
PRAYER
"God our Father, we find it difficult to come to you, because our
knowledge of you is imperfect. In our ignorance we have imagined you to
be our enemy; we have wrongly thought that you take pleasure in
punishing our sins; and we have foolishly conceived you to be a tyrant
over human life. But since Jesus came among us, he has shown that you
are loving, that you are on our side against all that stunts life, and
that our resentment against you was groundless. So we come to you,
asking you to forgive our past ignorance, and wanting to know more and
more of you and your forgiving love, through Jesus Christ our Lord."
(Prayer of Saint Augustine)
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