Lean: Purpose: Prayers and Poetry

         Lean

        To be content

        in any situation

        requires letting

        go of ourselves

        relinquishing control

        instead lean on Spirit

        trust invisible solid ground.

Psalm 18:45, "Foreigners fade away, and come trembling out of their fortresses."

Reflection: Friction: Purpose: Prayers and Poetry

 Reflection Questions

        1. How do  you define content?

        2. How important is it in your daily life and how do you react when it is not possible?

        3. In what ways can our definition of content clash with the Lord's relationship with each of us?

Share: What had been the most recent low experience you have dealt with? How did it turn to hope?

Compassion: Purpose:Prayers and Poetry

     Compassion

     Practice what is seen

     and heard from the Spirit

     teaching us to repeat

     again and again

     a new language or

     new understanding

     able to look

     beyond surface chaos

     and walk in His

     Presence

Psalm 18:44, "As soon as they hear, they obey me; Foreigners submit to me."

Reflection: Thoughtful: Purpose: Prayers and Poetry

 Reflection Questions 

                1. In what ways can our concern for others become buried in our own busyness?

                2. How can we balance compassion with correction?

                3. What concern is most relevant to you today?

                4. How might you approach it from the Lord's alphabet?

Share: What is the most recent gift of compassion you have received unexpectedly?

Thoughtful: Purpose: Prayers and Poetry

 Philippians 4:9-10, "What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me--practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity."

Thoughtful

Sometimes our busyness overpowers our basics.

We forget to act, or live, or think, from our heart's truth and Scripture words as we get caught up in the immediate concerns whether of our own or others.

Drama or not.

Yet the Lord's words are not a timed exam to pass like learning the alphabet. Instead it's being willing to listen every moment for the relevant letter to apply as He nudges.

Ongoing. Ever present. Ongoing. Practice.

Thank you, Lord, that there will never be any blank word or letter or note from You in any circumstance.

Your thoughts,