♪Time After Time♪

 Tuesday, December 14, 2021 (3:55 a.m.)

Thank You God,

Sleep. Rest. Warmth. Reasons to smile. And a song.

Cyndi Lauper’s ♪Time After Time♪ haunting me awake. ♪If you’re lost, you can look and you will find Me time after time If you fall, I will catch you, I’ll be waiting time after time♪

Lord, I find such comfort associating You with all aspects of my being.

(5:41 a.m.)

Sitting. Reading. Thinking. Wondering. I look around me and am so very grateful Lord.

You are so good. You are working in us. Unnoticeably. Indiscernibly. Imperceptibly. So slightly and faintly that we are barely aware of the changes You are evoking in us.

Here queues the song again. ♪Sometimes you picture Me I’m walking too far ahead You’re calling to Me I can’t hear what you’ve said Then You say, “Go slow” I fall behind♪

Considering Your presence even here, I envision me walking too far ahead of You. Thank You Lord that I get to slow down and contemplate You. All You have for us. And want from us.

Mm, yes Lord. Guide me in my contemplation of You this morning.

(6:34 a.m.)

And guide me You did!

Thank You God. Thank You God. Thank You God.

Quoting an 1855 sermon of Charles Spurgeon based on Malachi 3:16 [reading through verse 18] I am touched to tears. The hope I find in You dear Lord is shared with others. Thank You God!

Recognizing my emotional needs being met by You, this Prince of Preachers stated so eloquently all those years ago my feelings here. “Oh, there is, in contemplating Christ, a balm for every wound; in musing on the Father, there is a quietus for every grief; and in the influence of the Holy Ghost, there is a balsam for every sore.”

Reading Cody A Cunningham’s comments on this very sermon, I associate myself with his thoughts. “When we are in the valley of despair, those are the very times that we need to turn our gaze upon the One who is seated high and exalted.”

Here You sing to me again. ♪If you’re lost, you can look and you will find me Time After Time♪ Thank You Lord.

“Are you dealing with depression and suffering? Consider Jesus, the Savior who is well acquainted with suffering and grief. Are you being crushed by the weight of finding your identity in Your work? Spend time gazing at the Savior whose righteousness is our identity. The study of God brings consolation because we realize there is an eternal hope and that Hope has a name.” And that name is Jesus. Our hope in all things.

Use me this day Dear Lord. Thinking, saying, doing and being the things that will bring You glory.

I love You. Thank You. Amen.

(472 words ~ 6:59 a.m.)