gratefully home

 Tuesday, October 8, 2024 (5:21 a.m.)

Home. Grateful. List of other words. Like tired. Adjusting. Let’s go with grateful. And home.

Yes. Father, let’s go with the fact that I am incredibly grateful to be home. Thank You that I have home to come back to.

Lord, I’m confessing to being tired and feeling a twinge of sadness. I don’t even want to say all this yet there’s a part of me that knows it’s important. And I’m unwilling to do it right now.

I’ll be back.

(6:26 a.m.)

And I am. Still home. And grateful. Asking (Matthew 7:7) You to take everything You’ve been teaching me and turn it into some beautiful.

Yes Lord. I look to You to find the beauty in circumstances. Situations. Thoughts. Feelings.

“Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10). 

And here I smile. Yes! Thank and praise You Lord. Looking to You and Your Word, Your Truth wiggles in. Thank You.

Smiling, my heart, my soul, my spirit lift. Brighten. Thank You. Praise You.

At first I thought it was going to be EasyEnglish Bible’s version. “God, please make my heart new and clean. And make my spirit strong and true, deep inside me.”

Reading down the list of other translations, I find great descriptive words. Right. Steadfast. Persevering. Faithful. Deep inside. Strong. True. Pure. New. 

Even Complete Jewish Bible spells out “Let me hear the sound of joy and gladness, so that the bones you crushed can rejoice.” The Message sells me!

“Soak me in your laundry