November 16
The main thing I can say about being a widow, one never knows what each day will bring. Some days are filled with emotional stress, other days are pretty calm.
Today? A calm day…no emotional upheaval. Tomorrow? Who knows?
I’m taking each day as it comes. The future, while unknown to me, rests in the hands of God. I can trust Him to take care of me, to provide all that I need and to give me some things I want.
I know that I can fall so easily into self-pity, and the hope is that I will not stay in that mindset when it comes. A change of focus, a desire not to dwell in the dumps…and most of all, a God who is faithful.
I am thankful for these days of grace where I can focus on the positive and step away from the sorrow.
I pray for the wisdom and courage to choose life and joy each day.
I rejoice in God who loves me and will guide me along the way.
Where’s the joy? It comes regardless of my situation through Jesus Christ.
Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.
let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteousness man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.”
“For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.”
Isaiah 55:6-12
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