Get ready to explore Proverbs Chapter 20.

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday.  Welcome to a brand new year.  Let’s get to work installing the wisdom you’ll need to make this one of the best years of your life.  More reverence.  Better relationships.  Better results!

Here are some encouraging words.

Encouraging Words – Merton’s Prayer

Hallerin Hilton Hill

The early morning is a wonderful time to log on with God and download what you need for the day.

Prayer is an essential.  55% of Americans pray EVERY day.  75% agree that prayer is important.

I have to get a good dose or I’m done.  My cornerstone prayer is the Lord’s Prayer.  It’s perfect.

Recently a friend turned me on to a prayer written by Thomas Merton.  I’d like to share it with you this morning.

“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore will I trust you always, though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”

Thomas Merton

 

Works for me!  Hope it works for you.

 

Grow.  Help others grow.  Be encouraged.