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A Morning View From the Wood Stove

Sometimes I realize that all I need to say has already been written. 
Are you in a drought? Lonely, lost and feeling like you will never see the end of your "stuff?" 
Does it seem like you screw up everything you touch or do? Honestly, you probably do when you do it on your own. It is so foolish to think that we can do it alone. 

There is a book, which I have read, about the life of Gayle Sayers a former running back for the Chicago Bears. It is titled, "I Am Third." His life premise is "God first, others second and I am third." Sometimes it is easy to get that order mixed up. Some days it is God first, ME second and others third. On a different day  days it is others first God second and I am third. Quite often lately, it is ME first, God second and others third. There are other combinations of this but the worst days I ever experience are ME first, ME second and I am third. Oh foolish one........

“Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near. Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously. “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” - Isaiah 55:6-9 NLT

So my prayer for today Lord is to live God first, others second and I am third. Thank you Lord for the simpleness of living and pouring out your great love. 

God everyday is a choice, today I choose you.......

Peace,
PB


 

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