I got my weekend warrior on yesterday and, along with Dave and Kyle, headed outside to do lawn work. While they cut some brush down, I used my grabber tool to pick up sticks and twigs. It was fun. Last summer I always used my cane or walking stick outside to keep from losing my balance on the sloping ground. Yesterday, I moved around freely, getting a workout, but able to do it. Praise God! By the time I had cleared the lawn for mowing, though, I had used that trigger and then twisted my shoulder, arm, and wrist maybe 150 times, enough times for a repetitive motion injury. So I’m writing with a wrist support today and am thankful that it feels a bit better than it did last evening. No regrets.
Read about what this visitor to our yard was doing HERE.
This morning, we held church again in our home, watching, singing, and praying along with others who met on-line for a prerecorded worship service for Palm Sunday. You can VIEW IT HERE if you wish.
We’ve been sustained for another week and I offer a third Sunday prayer:
My Jesus, my Savior
Lord there is none like You
All of my days I want to praise
The wonders of Your mighty love
My comfort, my shelter
Tower of refuge and strength
Let every breath, all that I am
Never cease to worship You
Lord, Jesus, you are everything we need, more precious than silver and gold, mightier than all our foes. We think today about how hard it was for you to carry out the plan of your Father. Knowing what you were facing, you humbled yourself, humbly praying, “not my will, but thy will be done.” Help us, Lord, to do the same each day, believing that your ways and plans are best, knowing that you love us.
We continue to thank you for each person who is working during this time of crisis, seeing that we have provisions, providing crucial care to the sickest among us, delivering our mail, picking up our trash, teaching in a new way. We ask you to bless and protect them.
We thank you for our leaders on all levels and pray that they will make wise decisions. We thank you for pastors and others who are flooding the internet with your truth, encouraging us with your promises, singing your praise. Please protect them and their families.
We thank you for the scientific discoveries being used to inform us and to develop treatments and vaccination again Covid19. We pray that people all over the world who are sick will recover and that you’ll use us to deliver help and hope where it is needed.
Bless those who are alone in their homes with encouragement and peace. Help families who are living, working, and studying together to be patient with each other and find JOY in these days. May these days of testing increase our faith as we rely on you.
Amen.
Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial
because, having stood the test,
that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord
has promised to those who love him. James 1:12
