Category Archives: Potpourri

Pray

My Morning Prayer

I (try to) pray this most mornings:

Thank you for another day.

 Thank you for my family and friends and the opportunity to spend time with them and you here in this short life.

(Psalm 39:4)

 Please give me the clarity today to see, and the will to work on, the good deeds you have laid out in advance for me today.

(Ephesians 2:10)

 In everything that I do and say today let me show the fruits of your spirit. Let me show love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

(Galatians 5:22-23)

 I also pray that you focus my mind on loving others and loving you. Mold me into someone who is patient, kind, does not envy, does not boast, and is not proud.

(1 Corinthians 13:4)

 I ask for your wisdom in all the decisions that face me today.

(James 1:5)

 And I ask forgiveness from all of my sins against you. Please give me a clean heart and a renewed purpose for you today.

(Psalm 51)

 Thank you for my salvation and life in you. Draw me to you that I may know you more and more everyday.

(John 17:3)

Amen.
I love you so much.

— Dad

Action Is Character

I hope you guard your heart. 

Guard your heart because that is where your actions will come from. 

And out of actions will come your character. 

Matthew 15:18-19:
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 

Luke 6:45:
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Psalm 51:10:
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

You are one of the great joys of my life.

I love you.

 -Dad