ROOTED January 15
GOOD NEWS from Psalm 27: 13
I am expecting the Lord to rescue me again, and re-ROOT blooms into the break in my heart, so that once again I will grow to believe in, be ROOTED in, and see His Goodness take ROOT in me here in the land of the living.
ROOTED IN GOODNESS
Dear GOOD God,
Thank You for quickly coming to my aid.
You hasten to meet me right where I am, and ROOT me in Your Goodness whenever I cry out for Your Help.
You hasten to anchor my ROOTS in the stability of Your Strong Love during every moment and every grief wave, until the weight of grief lifts and makes space for Love to take ROOT in its place.
Your Compassion wraps Your Comfort all around me, my ROOTS and my circumstances.
Your length of Love increases the healing in my heart and ROOTS it deeper into Your Love.
In the middle of the night, I know You are my Constant Compassion, Who waits up with me until I sense Your Hereness.
You stay with me until I perceive everything You Provide to sustain me and my ROOTS in You.
In the morning when I rise, I will see Your New Mercies and Your Goodness that are deeply ROOTED with me and into every moment of my life.
Nourish and grow my ROOTS deep into Your soil of life's enduring values that I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny.
Thank You for encouraging my heart with Your Kindness, Goodness, Grace, and Mercy as I wait for the Son🌞 to rise again, and for Your ROOTS to take hold in my life again
🎶 THE ANCHOR HOLDS
sung by Joseph Larson
https://youtu.be/4OPiO7dpsYY?si=VFaUU7G1A6o4YQXW
SUGGESTED MANTRA: I am open to receiving God's Light, God's GOODNESS, God's Guidance, and God's Power! OR
By the Power of God's Holy Spirit, I am Peace, I am Love, I am Open to receive the Light of His Guidance, and the Power of His Universe!
SUGGESTED MEDITATION: For Inner Peace, stillness, and grounding...
https://youtu.be/929WVOOUT4s?si=iDvLivA-Jop11D0G
AFTER MY LOSS WHAT GAINS AM I LEFT WITH?
2026: Time
After my loss of Keith, what gains am I left with?
ReplyDeleteI'm left with accepting God's Sovereignty, counting every blessing, and forgiving everybody, everything.
Yesterday I shared my question about God's Miracles, or in my limited perception, lack thereof.
During the night and through the tears, God allowed me to see, in addition to all the temporary earthly miracles Keith did receive during his life, at the end of this life, Keith received His Permanent Heavenly Miracle - complete and total healing of all earth's illnesses, trials, tribulations, and troubles.
God also reiterated that Keith always was and always will be HIS. Keith was only on loan to us.
God is Sovereign and I am not; so I need to keep my focus on the positives, accept God's Way as Higher than mine, count and thank God for all His Miraculous Blessings, and then get over myself!
Now I am freed up to move into forgiveness and sing of The Goodness Of God, because His Anchor still Holds me.
Thank You for your prayers. I count all of you as some of my many and highly cherished blessings.
In Jesus' Name. AMEN!
From the book, EXPERIENCING GRIEF by H. Norman Wright, Chapter 13, "I'm Angry"
ReplyDeleteANGRY AT GOD
I told God I was angry
I thought He'd be surprised
I thought I'd kept hostility
quite cleverly disguised.
I told God I was angry
But I'm the one surprised
What I've known all along, He said,
You've finally realized.
At last you have admitted
What's really in your heart
Dishonesty, not anger
Was keeping us apart.
Even when you hate Me
I don't stop loving you
Before you can receive that love
You must confess what's true.
In telling Me the anger
You genuinely feel
It loses power over you
Permitting you to heal.
I told God I was sorry
And life's forgiven me
The truth that I was angry
Has finally set me free
--Jessica Shaver
More from the book, Experiencing Grief by H.Norman Wright, CHAPTER 13, I'm Angry:
DeleteAnother feeling is anger. It is a response to the hurt or pain.
It's not uncommon to experience these feelings even toward the one who died.
When direct expression of anger is blocked,
It.
Leaks.
Out.
and gets invested elsewhere.
Anger is NOT wrong.
It is emotional information.
It is one of the many expressions of grief. It is there for a purpose...
Some say, I am not angry.
Perhaps it would be better to write it out saying, I am/was angry because...
In time we will give up anger.
It had its purpose but it will eventually outlive its purpose.
In spite of all David's angry questions,
(Psalm 13: 1-4
How long will you forget me, Lord?
Forever?
How long will you look the other way when I am in need?
2 How long must I be hiding daily anguish in my heart?
How long shall my enemy have the upper hand?
3 Answer me, O Lord my God; give me light in my darkness lest I die.
4 Don’t let my enemies say, “We have conquered him!”
Don’t let them gloat that I am down.)
In verses 5-6 of the same Psalm, David eventually came to this same place:
...But I trust in Your Unfailing Love;
My heart rejoices in Your Salvation.
I will sing to the Lord
For He has been good to me...
And so will we. AMEN!