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A Way to Walk Each Day of the Year

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  Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight. (direct your paths)  Proverbs 3:5-6 (NASB) I don't know about you, but me, well, I realize how easily I slip into leaning on my own understanding, leaning on what makes sense to me. But I know, deep down in my heart that the way to walk is to trust the Lord with everything I have, with all my heart. For the Lord is faithful to direct, to straighten paths.  This new year is filled with days, days of two choices staying with our Father or leaning on my own understanding.  Each day I choose to stay with my Heavenly Father leads to a week, then a month, then a year and another, and then more... more secure steps on uneven paths because of the One who holds our hand. It starts with one day, today.  Today with it's new morning mercies is all we need to live.  Today, I choose to lean in and on my Father, wh...

Trust Even When There is Unknown

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  Trust in the Lord and lean not on thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.   Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust Me," Jesus says.  And that's easy until something or a situation looms so large before me that all within me screams to reach for taking matters into my own hands.  History, past experiences, remind me that God is trustworthy.  So, I breathe deep, pause and remember my Father's love runs deep and He is good whether my circumstances portray that reality or not.  I take the next step, one step at a time, with my hand, in my Father's hand.  Because His love is faithful, He changes not.