Reading: Lamentations 3:7-9: ".... Even when I cry out for help, He shuts out my prayer. He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; ...".
Ways
It often can take a long time, Lord, for each of us to even begin to understand these words and others like them. Especially when Your words also invite us to come directly to You in prayer.
In all circumstances and situations.
But then maybe we are still like toddlers crying and asking for things that are not safe. Or will lead us into temptations and destruction. Because we have not grown enough to recognize the imitation lures.
So You over-ride our cries to keep us safe and turn instead to seek Your truth.
Please help us to accept closed prayers and closed doors with as much thankfulness as we respond to open ones.
Keep us only on Your road. The one not even a fool can fall off.
And show us how to recognize and respond to any words Your Spirit speaks into us.
Please keep us listening--Your way.
Your thoughts,
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