Freshness

I love to sit outside and enjoy the warm fresh air of the summer.  One of the favourite spots Evelyn and I enjoy is Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Park.  Sitting in the freshness and beauty reminds me of those wonderful verses in the Bible from  the book of Lamentations. They are so familiar but so uplifting.

The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease.  Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!” The Lord is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for him. So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.

Lamentations 3:22-26

Thank you God that we have a choice every day to spend time with You and be refreshed with Your loving presence.  It’s wonderful to know that your love never comes to an end. You never stop being kind to us. Even though we don’t know what this day will hold we know we can trust you to be kind to us again in the middle of it all.

We are weak and fallible human beings so the promise of never-ending kindness really is such good news.  Help us to do our part to look to you for help and saving and healing and forgiving – whatever we are needing for what is going on inside us or around us. 

We’re also grateful that you can be trusted to keep your promises. You do good things when we walk with you and wait for your plan to unfold. Would you help us to do that today and not run ahead with our own shortsighted ideas of how things should be and what we should do.

So Lord, we want to be simple today and just look for your renewing and refreshing in each set of circumstances where we find ourselves. Give us eyes and ears and hearts that recognize and acknowledge your kindness.

Give us patience to wait for Your help in all things rather than as we just said, blundering forward with our own flawed ideas. Give us quiet hearts that are assured that you will save us and always be with us going forward so we can do the waiting with peace and joy in our hearts. Amen

Let’s be refreshed with God’s goodness all day long as we welcome His help in every situation.