GROWING SEEDS: "The Best is Yet To Come"

 

Dear Father,

As we end the chapter titled 2017 in the book of our lives, we find empty white pages ahead of us in Chapter 2018.   We know we have nothing to fear in the mystery of the unknown days before us......so long as we keep our eyes focused on You and not the world.  

I thank You for this past year......for the trials, for the grace, for the arms with nail scars on them that have held us as we walked through the valley of the shadow of death so many times.  All these things remind us how much we need You every day, every minute, every second.  

I thank You we have Hope......because we know this earth is not our home.  We are mere travelers passing through this life on earth so we can arrive Home to spend eternity with You.  I thank You that this time on earth is merely a sub-section in the book of our lives....and the relationship we have with You here, determines our relationship with You in eternity.  I pray every person praying this same prayer.....chooses You...just as You chose them.... to spend eternity with.  May they feel Your hand reaching out to them, guiding, leading and whispering the direction they should go.  And when we take a wrong turn....may we hear Your still-small-GPS-voice guiding us back to the right road.  

I thank You for Light you provide us in the dark.....in those times when grief overwhelms us and fear grips us like a vise.  You have assured us Your tears are mixed with ours during these times and we know its always the greatest friend whose tears connect with ours.  You are the truest of friends and You walk through the mud of this life with us whether we know it or not.....whether we ask You to or not.  

I thank You for Your Love.......a love we can't yet understand.  A love that goes to the ends of the earth to rescue us from the evil one who longs to see us fail.  We live in a sinful world that is creaking and groaning like an old car nearing the end of its life.  But You are the mechanic, Father......You have the tools and expertise to keep us going.  And You hear us ask, "How much longer, Father", and with a smile on Your lips, you answer, "Just a little bit further....we're almost there."

May the pages of 2018 be filled with Thankfulness.....knowing we are almost Home.

Amen