...for this thing

          is from Me.

           1 Kings 12. 24

("Take My hand

and follow Me into this."

One step,

          and then the next.

Faithfulness may never know

     where it ultimately leads,

             but with Whom.

God never promised

              a life of ease,

but "I am with you."

   Even in the hard stuff,

            God redeems.)

O LORD,

Thank you for this fresh day,

wide open and full of Your wonder

            and mighty works,

even that which I can't see

                               yet.

Please help me to respond to You,

   to daily come before You

and choosing Your way through,

not my grand schemes

               but Your glory.

Your Presence

          changes everything.

Help me to bless and honor You

         right where I am

and through what is before me.

Not my way,

          but Your higher way.

Nothing random at all,

     but You are in this.