Friday, March 26, 2010

 

 

 

NEVER LET ME GO (Ben Cantelon)

Your ways are always greater

I may not see

Your promise is written on my heart

I look to You, my Savior

When I am weak

I find rest in the shadow of Your wing

Father, I know You will never let me go

You’re always there

And when the darkness is surrounding, still,

You love me so

Yes, You love me so

Your Word is never failing

Strength for today

I have hidden your word in my heart

You are strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow

You are strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow

You are strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow

Bright Hope for tomorrow

Good morning, Lord.  Thank you for a chance to sleep and regroup in this adventure called “life”.  I found rest in the “shadow of Your wing”.  One of my friends said last week that they were going to buy feathers at Wal Mart and put them in their house at different spots to remind them that they are resting “under the shadow of Your wings”.  Yes, You love me so.  I desire today to Hide Your Word in my heart more.  I ask You to give me Your joy.  I ask You to take away this spirit of heaviness and give me Oil of gladness.  I ask Your Holy Spirit to walk with me as I accomplish the goals set before me.  When I am overwhelmed, I go to the rock that is higher than my circumstances.  You are truly strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.

I have been taking Londyn to the playground besides the Aquatic Center for months and months.  The other day when she went, for some reason the gym equipment that she was playing on kept shocking her.  When she touched any of the metal, she was zapped pretty good.  After several times of that happening, she wanted to get off that big old gym set that she had played on happily for many hours in the past.  So yesterday, when I took her back there (forgetting about the prior shocking experience), she didn’t want to play on it.  I took her downtown where there is a wood gym set and I thought it wouldn’t shock.  Yesterday for whatever reason (I’m not a science type thinker), it didn’t shock.  I would rub my hands over the wood and touch the metal and it wouldn’t shock me.  Well, did you think Londyn would buy into that?  NO.  Every time I tried to get her to play on it and hold onto the metal parts, she would coil back.  Now she was afraid and I couldn’t do anything about it.  It was in her mind, it wasn’t reality. 

Can you relate to that?  Are there areas where we have been shocked and now we can’t enjoy what we have because of our prior experience?  Was there something that helped Londyn?  Little by little as she touched the metal bars and they didn’t shock her, she became a “little” more sure of the truth that I was showing her.  It wasn’t a quick, kinda, “oh yes”, but little by little she trusted what I said and slowly touched the metal.  Father, You are showing me (little by little) that the metal won’t shock me, I can touch it.  I am trusting You.  I wish it could be a complete abandonment of believing a lie and rather,  believing You, but it’s not.  It’s through the times that You put me on the wood gym set and help me touch the metal that I am learning it won’t hurt me.  I ask You to give me the courage to “do it” as I depend on You and Your love to guide me.  I love You more and more every day.  Your tender care gives me the confidence to try again and again and again and again.  Today I am

Climbing On the High Part,

Mary Ann