Prayers

Dear Heavenly Father, the one who holds me in the palm of Your hand when I am feeling weak and even when I am feeling strong, be with me throughout this coming day. I recognize my need to bring many things before You. We talked about seasons in teachings this summer and I realize that right now I am in a season of high responsibility and thus high stress. I don't want to use that as some kind of excuse to not be the person You are trying to make me into. But the amount of tiredness does become overwhelming after a while. And it makes it hard to get up and spend any time with You.

It especially makes it difficult to spend any time listening. If I quiet my soul and let these words fade away, I will be like Peter, james and John in the garden of Gethsemane, I will physically fall asleep. Though I don't want to just babble on and babble on, I have a very difficult time focusing when I don't. What does that say about my ability to focus? I don't know.

In any case, I have four blessings in my life that are taking precedence in my prayer life right now. My family, my church, my tennis team, and my job. My family has been amazing over the past couple weeks. Courtney really seems to be committed right now to helping me in this time of busyness instead of getting angry about it. Gideon is doing the cutest things ever, laughing every time I come into the room, waving bye-bye at random times, clapping his hands, crawling all over the place. Just yesterday he jumped off the side of the pool to me, closing his eyes and holding his breath. He did that and he's not even 9 months old yet. I just think he is amazing. What a blessing my family has been! Thank You, giver of life and creator of all. You are good. My church seems to be running smoothly again as well. With Lisa coming back from her summer voyage to the south, and Darryl coming again on a regular basis, the living room feels full every week and people seem to be enjoying and learning. Some people are really on fire, and so I hope we aren't disappointing You with our community. You also seem to be opening doors at the Window again, so... continue to lead us into deliverance, community, knowledge, and land.

My tennis team has been doing awesome, and they are such great guys. Thank You for the way we are able to learn biblical truths through a physical activity, and thank You for helping us improve our athletic competition. It's rewarding to watch players mature through their years on the team. Thank You for Your blessings on us, let us not forget to praise You. And finally school has been a lot of fun this year, leading the students through the Scriptures. I pray that You will help me stay organized, for that extra time I spent this summer has been rewarded so far. Thanks for the opportunity that was brought around for me to do something I love.

For all these things, this morning I say thank You. I praise You, but not because I am supposed to, instead because I truly do see blessing and recognize it as an undeserved gift from a beautiful savior. That is my psalm this morning... Your love endures forever!