For those struggling financially …
Tomorrow is a new year. That’s a reminder for all of us. God’s mercies are new in the morning. The past matters, but it doesn’t control the future. Maybe 2008 was a tough year, but God is alive and well. 2009 hands us new opportunities, and the world will be different because of what we do with them. … Throughout this month I’ve enjoyed providing these words of encouragement for you who are facing financial challenges. I pray that you will discover riches you never even knew existed, and that 2009 will be a wonderful prosperous year for you. Many blessings!
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. — Luke 2:19
What are you treasuring? What is buried deep in your soul?
I think about a four year old boy, sitting in a farmhouse kitchen, warming up near the cook stove, eating homemade toast with a thick layer of sugar on the top, while Grandma rolled out lefse and prayed in Norwegian. I think of a young man, a bit shy, posing for a snapshot next to a young woman with a beautiful smile. I think of five words written on a yellow piece of paper folded over, carried in a wallet, unfolded and read again and again: “I love you very much.” I think of a new baby girl being carried by her daddy for the first time, looking up with wide eyes, wondering, I suppose, what sort of daddy he would be.
I try to tell God how very grateful I am for life. I don’t exactly know how to do it, but I try.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
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