Just what I need.

If my thoughts create the reality I see, will you then guide me? Too often, I create a dim world filled with trial.

When it rains, I see a shivering day. When snow has fallen, I see the work of digging out.

Under glorious sunshine, I worry that it is fleeting.

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Lord, enter my mind and direct my thinking, for I cannot do it myself.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I be truly open to your direction and guidance?

Reading:

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” — William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene II

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“Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” — Romans 12:2 (KJV)

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You are there.

Lord, you are near to the broken hearted, the crushed, the despondent. We who cry out to you, you are there for.

Could I rely on you more fully before I came to brokenness? Why must I be at the end of my tether before truly seeking you?

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Let me open myself to you, Lord, to enter my life even before I know I need you.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I accept your unconditional love?

Reading:

“Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back.” — George Herbert, Love (III)

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“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” — Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

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“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.” — Psalm 34:18 (KJV)

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Written everywhere.

So busy with the morning chores, so busy with tending to my dwelling, so busy with labors of the day.

Were you speaking to me, Lord, and I did not hear? Was there a message in the garden that I missed?

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Let me move slowly enough to open my eyes, my heart, to what you have to to tell me today.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I be more open to the messages I am receiving?

Reading:

“The silence of God is the voice of God, heard by those who wait.” — Max Picard, The World of Silence

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“The garden is never finished. It is always speaking.” — Derek Jarman, Modern Nature

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“He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” — Matthew 11:15 (KJV)

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Always something possible.

Can I make the grass, the trees grow faster through my efforts? Can I bring a stop to rains though great exertion? Can I stop the aging of my neighbor?

I am powerless over great and small things.

Can I alter my course to account for weather? Can I tend with care and weed my garden?

Can I bring cheer to my fellows?

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There is always something in my power.

Let me make the ripples you would have me make, Lord.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I live my power today?

Reading:

“Some things are in our control and others not.”

— Epictetus, Enchiridion

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“Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

— Mary Oliver, “Sometimes”

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“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” — Micah 6:8 (KJV)

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