Saturday, October 31, 2020
The day done, a deserted place, and the prayer is always the same:
Thank you for all that you bless me with,
and sustain me, when others would take my life from me.
Psalm 59:17
O my strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.
Mark 1:35
In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.
Words of Grace For Today
In the morning, while it is still very dark … this describes everything in the morning here for months. The sun rises at 8:00 ish, later, it’ll rise at 10:00.
he got up and went to a deserted place … this describes every morning, for thankfully this place is deserted. No one is around to threaten me. I’ve had my fill of lies about me and people trying to Gaslight me to think I did something wrong when I have done very honourable and courageous things.
there he prayed … and each morning I pray, with thanks for what I still have available to sustain my life and make it even blessed, fresh air, water, fire for heat and sometimes even hot water, food, clothing, a bit of shelter, work and love.
I have every reason to sing God praises, for God is my strength. In the face of all this gaslighting, of late some very transparent and intentional, God shows me all the steadfast love that holds the world together. Indeed God is my fortress.
Those who lie about me, and Gaslight me … these people I know could not survive with the little that I have. I can with God’s blessings survive many many years. They would give up, capitulate or simply die of an accident of their own making, dying by fire or by ice.
They have fancy houses, houses of privilege, houses made with deceit and fraud, yet their houses crumble even now, for the comfort they enjoy, the conveniences, the relative safety, … all that is won by dishonesty of whatever kind will crumble not from others or from mice and ants, but from within themselves, from their own corruption.
And you, have you provided life abundant for anyone lately, OR
or have you taken life’s essentials for yourself and left others without?
Who is our God, if not the God that is knowable in how we behave when the stress is turned up high, as it has in Covid 19, especially now with the 2nd wave, which as predicted is worse than the first?
In the early morning, in a deserted place, what are doing each day?