Thanksgiving Day

On this Thanksgiving Day I pray: Father God, thank you for life. This ‘musical composition’ of my life that you have prepared and composed for me, with me in mind from the genesis of time, before the worlds were created. You orchestrated and plotted out the lines and the spaces, the sharps, the flats and the accidental and the clef signs of my life. You wrote your melody upon what would be turned from a heart of stone into a soft and malleable heart….that inescapable love song that no other composer can write; this symphony, this concerto where sometimes I am the solo instrument and in other measures I am accompanied by a host of other players musicians, and must play in tune with them.
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My Morning Thoughts;

Dear God, I want to, and I desire your help in guiding me to translate Light into words–to make Your Glory tangible to our finite senses that comes from Your infinite senses. I speak as the psalmist sings; “Beautiful words stir my heart and I will recite a lovely poem about the King for my tongue is like the pen of a skillful poet.” Psalm 45:1

As Paul said, I want to focus on my goal. “I am not already as God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal, but I continue trying to reach it and to make it mine. Christ wants me to do that, which is the reason he made me his… I know that I have not yet reached that goal, but there is one thing I always do. Forgetting the past and straining toward what is ahead, I keep trying to reach the goal and get the prize for which God called me through Christ to the life above.” Philippines 3:13…

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