Thankful Thoughts

Thoughts for Today…

1.  Thank You God for giving me a husband that loves me, and thinks I am the most beautiful woman in the world.

Gracious God, cause me to be selfless as I love him.  Help me to remember I am his helper.  Help me to help him.  Help me to build my house up with my hands.  Help me to be wise and choose wisdom always, that his heart may safely trust in me.  Help me to do him good, and not evil, all the days of his life.

2.  Thank You for my beautiful children, and for their resilience despite my wickedness and how often I fail them.

Gracious God, please help me to leave a beautiful legacy with them.  May they grow to truly know You, worthily magnify You, trust in You with all their hearts, and choose wisdom, and remain unspotted from the world.  May my arms be the “earthly” arms which they feel safest in, and may they trust in me to do them good and teach them Your ways.

3.  Thank You God, that as You were with Jonah, You are to me the God of “second chances” giving me the opportunity time and again to choose life and blessing in You and to trust and obey, and to receive  grace and forgiveness when I have fallen.

Lord, please help me to overcome.  Help me, to live by the blood of Your Son, a victorious life, one in which I am not brought under the power of any.  One where if at first I don’t succeed, I can try, try again, by Your power.  Lord, You know my vices, please help me, oh Jesus.  Let them not take hold of me, and choke out the Word in my life.

I am not selfless, but You are.  I am not able, but You are.  I am not humble, but Thou art.  I am discontent, but You are all-satisfying.  I am weak, but You are strong.  I cannot carry on any longer, but You can carry me.

~R