“Dear Lord, I hear Your call today and earnestly seek Your presence. I am searching, desperately searching for the love that completes my soul. You have blessed me with so much love in my life through my family, my husband, my friends, my church, and yet my soul remains with an openness to receive that one perfect love for which I was created. I long for You, I pine for You, I thirst for You and therefore, I live on earth searching for You.
“You
have shown me glimpses of You on earth because You are everywhere and in
everything and for that I am grateful. Sometimes I see You in a person, in a
situation, in nature, and even in tragedy and disaster. You are always there
weaving the threads of Your creation into a beautiful work of art, even those
threads that sometimes unravel or shred. You always place them carefully into Your
art in just the perfect place with a beauty that only You can create.
“Dear
Lord, please continue to reveal Yourself to me wherever I go and in whatever I
do. May that deep longing in my heart be dabbed with Your healing water every
day in ways I may not always expect or recognize, the way Veronica appeared
through the horror of the angry mob accompanying You to Calvary, and gently,
lovingly, wiped Your face and reflected Your love.
“Dear
Lord, the shining light of my heart, shine as a beacon on this world to light
the way for me to seek You. May the emptiness in my heart and soul be filled
with that shining light and keep me ever true on the path to Your heart.”
I am trying to see our Lord in many different places and situations...sometimes it is hard to see Him in tragedy, disaster or even everyday hard times. But I do try to see His love, His plan. I also try to see where I can be part of the hard times to help, to understand why, to maybe be there in kindness to ease the pain. Sometimes, though, it is such a hard, hard struggle.
ReplyDeleteThat is a hard struggle for all of us but sometimes, we have to remember that sometimes, we will not understand the why of God's will. It is so much bigger than we can ever comprehend and it is just a small piece of the whole picture.
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