Word of Encouragement (01/28/2022)

“To you, O heavenly Father, be all praise and glory, as day by day you richly fill my life with many blessings:

A home to share, family to love, and friends to cherish;

A place to fill and work to do;

Your gift of a green world, blue skies above, and the air we breathe;

Healthy exercise and simple pleasures;

Humanity’s long history to remember and its great people to follow;

Good books to read and many creative activities to delight in;

So much that is worth knowing and the skill and technology to know it;

Thoughts of eternity and great things that sometimes fill my mind;

Many happy days, and that inward calm that you give me in days of gloom;

The peace, passing understanding, that comes from your living in me;

The faith that looks through death, and the hope of a larger life beyond the grave.

“O Lord God, thank you that although you have always generously showered all people with blessings, yet in Jesus you have done greater things for us than you have ever done before:

Making home sweeter and friends dearer;

Turning sorrow into gladness and pain into the soul’s victory;

Robbing death of its sting;

Robbing sin of its power;

Making peace more peaceful and joy more joyful and faith and hope more secure. Amen.”