Out With The Old

I can’t believe I’ve posted almost every night since sometime in May this year. It has been one of the biggest blessings of 2008 for me. The act of examining my day takes only a few moments while I am in front of the word processing screen. Then I write, and copy and paste to the blog.

Those few moments are enough to force me to count my blessings for the day, to see my mistakes. It is enough time to let me see how prayer either helped me during the day, or how it could have helped me. In the cases where it could have, I am sorry to say I made my own life more tense by not getting in touch with God in time to save myself that stress.

I hope that by my sharing these things with you each night, you at least felt less alone in your own spiritual journey. It is a journey. It’s a lifetime trek. I read somewhere that even Mother Theresa, as devout a person as we’ll ever be aware of, doubted at times that God heard her prayers. I am so much less than she but I can take comfort that in her sharing that thought with someone who wrote it down, she helped me feel less alone. That’s one of things we all need to do. We need to help each other.

As the new year approaches, I hope that I can help others more often than I do now.

Heavenly Father, please guide my every thought and movement, moving me toward those you are counting on me to help, and give me the grace, stamina, and sense of charity that will help me to do this.