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The Value of God’s Path

Many are the plans of a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. Proverbs 19:21

Our lives occur along the long trail of life, that winds and curves, which trudges over vast expanses, and lingers at times, sometimes stuck, sometimes mired

We scale great mountains, and enjoy the views, and dance across beautiful meadows and windswept beaches.

Sometimes we find ourselves entering a battlefield, or come to a place as aliens, refugees, the displaced

Oh, this life we live. We have so much hope and so much struggle. How we choose to see our path makes all the difference

The Lord, our God, has helped me greatly. He has helped guide my soul and my being. He watches over me by night and by day, so that I might see my way through life safely

There are no guarantees, except that our God loves us. No easy ways to go, but God makes my steps lighter. He gives sight to my eyes where they can’t see and strength to my steps, so that I can overcome

He shows me a more excellent path, so that I can know right from left, and right from wrong

Our Lord shows me wisdom, so that I can choose to love, instead of acting out of anger. Or to give from myself, instead of hording things to my own peril

The paths that God leads me down bring health to my life. They open to me choices that create peace with my enemies and love between my neighbors

His wisdom gives me a greater understanding,  so that I have a greater chance of success and a better way to escape danger

Blessed are the paths that God leads me down, and joyful, the places He leads me to

When I become forgetful and less connected to Our Lord, I begin to stray on to difficult paths. Tracks that lead towards troubled places. And it can take effort and trial to get back upon the best way

How easy it is for us to stray from God; To leave Him behind, as we seek something shiny in the distance

But these things are just mirages. They are empty and false and leave us in places of despair

How good it is then, to find God; To reach out to Him and pray with all your heart

For He will always restore us

He will pick us up and place us back on His path that leads us in all the ways of goodness. So that we can be whole once again       12/17/2019

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Call To Action

There is an enormous blessing God has placed just above the Earth, so very thin like an invisible film

It is where all life exists and breathes

How slight, shallow, and fragile. Within this narrow sliver we live, thrive, and have our being

Wondrous it is; there is nothing like it that we have ever seen in all of the universe

Thank you, God, for this place you made, so that we may live richly with all other life and live in awe and wonder of what You have done; To praise You for Your wisdom, love, and power

For truly, You have made a glorious world

It is a sin that we take all of this for granted. A sign of the depth of our forgetfulness of You, that we desecrate a place so holy with the refuse of our age

How shallow and short sighted we are, that we continue harming this place that God made for us. More so, now that we are fully aware of what we are doing

God has blessed us so that we now cover the entire earth. We have the means and ability to do things never before imagined and yet we find ourselves facing a problem. Something that threatens our very existence

Yet our reason has somehow been clouded. Our reverence for this incredible home, forgotten, and we are left as blind as to the threats that await us; That even now, are happening on an enormous scale

How richly blessed is the space within this narrow zone. How incredible the detail and workings of this sacred place and amazing beyond all the power of our reason; The interplay of elements of land, water, and air that occur here

But most of all, it is life, which dwells here, that dazzles. For life is God’s grandest creation

It is a sin what we are doing. We dishonor the very God who made us. That we do nothing now to correct this, is a blunder, a crime of the most epic proportion

We know what the problem is, our sin now lies in our inaction. For we can correct this and restore our honor before God

We must act now

Lord God, we don’t want to be the ones who damage or destroy our world. We don’t want to have the blood of trillions of your creatures on our hands. Let us be remembered that we honored you through our actions, and corrected our ways, because of a renewal of our love for You    (11/6/19)