Brave Little Gerda Faces the Icy Game of Reason

[Rita]

Grace, this note meant a lot to me, I read it many times that day. I always feel that I am stumbling but then I realize I am still walking and that indeed, God must be helping me, He is hearing me for sure. Sometimes I can feel Him walking with me.

Lately as certain things in me get eroded, I finalize understand that struggle I read about other people having, to feel that I am worthy of God's love, that I don't have to be perfect before I ask him for help. I am struggling with this now but I do see it as a grace that I can understand that, as I never really did before, when I read other people seeing that.

I want to thank you for your friendship, it means a lot to me and is a real gift. I have been following your sitch and am so impressed with the joy you have been taking in your daily life.

Here's a prayer for you for today --

Holy God, Your beloved Son has called me “friend!” As I quietly come to You to contemplate the great gift of His gracious friendship to me, please calm my mind and still my body. Bring me to a deep awareness, O My Father in Heaven, of Your presence to me right here, right now . . . . above me, below me, behind me, before me, around me, beside me, within me. I lovingly thank You for Your infinite goodness to me, in particularly today in the gifts of Jesus’s friendship with me, and what an example He has given to me for my friendship with others. I ask You to grant me the gift of holy friendships in my life, with individuals who will walk faithfully side by side and arm in arm with me, back to You, as we travel our pilgrim journeys on this earth together. Amen.