Twilight Prayer

In the darkness of the night when nothing else is stirring
This restless body is awake and restless thoughts are whirring

An extra hour none can add by life's anxieties
Our dear Lord has promised that in life's perplexities

Still the tossing turning hours Have rocked and rolled the bed
Until awakened wandering a book or verse is read

A chapter from the book of God brings comfort in the night
It brings the tangled mind to God unties and brings to light

Thank you once again dear Lord for staying by my side
Whether it is one am or early eventide

To God In All His Glory

To God, who is faithful
To God, water in a dry and weary land
To God, merciful and kind
To God, seeker of lost souls
To God, friend in loneliness
To God, the heart's cry for help
To God, powerful God
To God, listener
To God, patient God
To God, harvester of souls
To God, perfecter
To God, author of life
To God, giver and provider
To God, healer
To God, redeemer
To God, lovely and beautiful
To God, varietous and exciting
To God, intriguing
To God, divine
To God, eternal
To God, complete
To God, dependable
To God, sovereign
To God, glorious
To God, love
To God, everything

To God be the glory forever and every, Amen!!

Abide With Me Always

Abide with me in the morning
I wrote these morning verses one morning when I arrived at work.

Abide with me, fast rises morning sun
The daylight brightens; Lord now help me run.
When in my path, the rocks and pitfalls be.
Oh thou my strengh, my shield abide with me.

Abide with me, without you I am lost
Though persecution comes at greatest cost
Heavenward we look, for there our treasures be
In every moment Lord, Abide with me.

Abide with me, my comforter Divine.
In all decisions, Holy Spirit shine.
Thy precious truth, like salve for sight shall be.
With all thy armor Lord, Abide with me.

Verses to the tradition hymn, Abide With Me

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide
When other helpers fail and comforts flee
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away
Change and decay in all around I see;
O though who changest not, abide with me.

I need thy presence every passing hour.
What but thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?
Who, like thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.

I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if thou abide with me.

Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

Oxygen - A prayer for my mother

Breath of life
Fill her lungs with currents of air

Bread of heaven
Fill her with appetite to sustain every breath

Great physician
Heal her and take away her fear and pain

To Him who can do infinitely more than we can imagine, be glory.
In Jesus who is all things,
Amen

Complete Forgiveness

O Dear Lord,
You've led me to the quiet place
Where I can almost see your face
A dark and secret closet space

Here I meet you and I see
You'll love me to eternity
I don't feel compelled to be
anyone but just plain me

I come confessing my great sin
And the predicaments I'm in
Life is in a tailspin
Oh what a mess of things I've been

I need your absolution Lord
The price you paid I can't afford
Apart from you I am a loss
Your separating good from dross

Not me you see but look to Christ
The one, the only sacrifice
Amen, Amen I say no more
I close my eyes, swing wide the door

Come in Dear Lord and cover me
Then all my flaws are hid in Thee

Eternal Perspective

Thinking eternally...

Rev 3:12 "Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name."
Rev 4: 2-7 "..a throne stood in heaven with one seated on the throne. And He who sat there had the appearance of Jasper and Carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow, that had the appearance of an emarld. Around the throne were 24 thrones, and seated in he thrones, were 24 elders, clothes with white garments with golden crowns on their heads. From the throne came clashes of lightening and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God. And before the throne, there was as it were a
sea of glass, like crystal.
1 Cor 2:9 "But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him."

Thank you that our treasures are hidden with you God and that noone can take them away. Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage, for the facing of this hour, for the facing of this hour.

In the Mighty name of Jesus,
Amen!

Watching Praying Waiting

Still watching for Christ's return.
Still waiting.
Serving
Waiting.
Praying.
Watching.
Waiting...

Will a day be like 1000 years ?
Oh Sovereign Lord. You know.