2.10.14

Dear Father,
Thank you for all of the blessings you have given me.  I know I say that a lot, but you have so truly blessed me in every way.  you have given me a brain that learns, a family that loves, faithful friends, food for every meal (and between), clothes to stay warm, happiness, joy, and so many lovely and wonderful things.  Lord, I live a life of excess.  i really don't need a lot of the stuff i have.  you have blessed me beyond compare.  all the little hiccups i've had in my life pale in comparison to those of others.  yet who am i to have been so blessed?  i have on deserving of it.  i, who sins constantly, who rebels against your Spirit daily, who is self-indulgent, selfish, mean -cruel, even - earthly, and horrible.  you have chosen to bless me?  oh Lord, your ways are mysterious.  great and awesome are you, Jesus.  you choose no favorites.  we are all one and the same in you.  great and forgiving and merciful are you, Father, to pour blessing on one such as I.  i know it has nothing to do with my importance or my grace, but it is your grace and generosity.  how am i to repay you for it all?  look, even this whole paragraph has been circling around me.
Let's try glorifying you, Lord, for what you have done outside of me:
You, oh God, made the heavens and the earth.  you made the daily beauty that surrounds humankind daily.  you have made it so intricate, so detailed, so wondrous that the simplest cell is enormously complex.  the people of this earth has only just begun discovering cells and microscopic organisms and tissues, but they have been awe-stricken for thousands and thousands of years at the macroscopic aspects of your creation.  your mountains, your valleys, your trees and stars and flowers... your people.  we have been made so perfectly.  we have been made to work without needing to think about it.  Lord, it shows us just how helpless we are.  the vital, physical parts of our existence are not even controlled by us.  we don't tell our heart to start beating or our brain to keep working.  you have designed us so that we don't even have to think about it, it just happens.  how amazing is that?
Hallelujah!
praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights.  praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts.  praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars.  praise him, highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens.let them praise the name of Yahweh, for he commanded, and they were created.  Ps. 148:1-5
Equip me with your Spirit, Lord, as I walk with you today.