Me: How are we to start our day?
Prodigal: Something with the word of God.
Me: The word of God?
Prodigal: Yes, it can change your spirit.
This is from the book Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey
Merton found the secret to true freedom: If we live to please God alone, we set ourselves free from the cares and worries that press in on us. So many of my own cares trace back to concern over other people: whether I measure up to their expectations, whether they find me desirable. Living for God alone involves a radical reorientation, a stripping away of anything that might lure me from the primary goal of pleasing God. Living in faith involves me pleasing God, far more than God pleasing me.
WE may be tired as we start our day. It seems that we have too much to do today. I know. There was a time when your schedule was not as demanding. For now there is joy in all you do, remember this even if it is tiresome at times.
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Leviticus 20:26
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
