Christ be with me, Christ be within me
Christ behind me, Christ before me
Christ beside me, Christ to win me
Christ to comfort me, Christ above me
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger
Christ in hearts of all that love me
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger
– St. Patrick, Irish cleric
This Gaelic prayer is deep and beautiful. May the love of Christ surround you today. Blessings, Lisa
Upward towards God, living now…the way towards hope.
“Forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 3:13
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Author unknown
“One day at a time – – this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.” – Author Unknown
Love and blessings, Lisa
You can run, and you can hide….
But we’ll find you and take that picture! 🙂
Sometimes we all wish we could hide away…hide from our past, hide from responsibilities, hide from pain. Crazily, we sometimes even want to hide from God, thinking that He won’t want to see us after what we did/said/thought/etc. But He’s always there, ready to forgive and let us start over. He’s watching over us as a loving Father, protecting and thinking of us even when we don’t know it.
“If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You…..How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand, when I awake, I am still with You.” – Psalm 139:11-12, 17-18
How amazing that is to me…I pray heaps of blessings on your day today. Slainte, Lisa
-Irish Proverb
God be on your road every way you go today. Slainte, Lisa
“Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy – meditate on these things.” – Philippians 4:8
There are a lot of yucky, depressing, ugly and scary things in the world that try to steal my attention and terrify me. It can happen by reading the news, watching TV, going to Walmart, even by revisiting things in your past that you’re not proud of. But in Christ, I am a new creation, the old is past, the new has come. He wants me to keep my eyes on Him, on the true and noble and lovely things that He has made and that are to come. Like my dog when he’s cuddled up in his bed, looking like a big stuffed animal. Like hugs from my sweet children who call me Mommy. Like a kiss at the end of a hard day from the handsome man who loves me and married me. Like a phone call from my parents, talking over life and realizing that we are so blessed. The sun in the morning, a beautiful moon at night, fireflies outside my window. True, noble, lovely. Be blessed today, Lisa
Think About These Things 