Beginners

Our Daily Bread
There was movie out a year or two ago called Beginners.  It had some very interesting story lines about the love lives of a father and son as they started new relationships.  The son with a woman he fell madly in love with.  The father with another man after coming out late in life.  Beginning again as if everything is new is a refreshing and scary experience!

The important point of today's devotional is that God is with us throughout every second of our lives and will guide is through all situations.  It is amazing to me how this works.  I gave the example of a youngster riding a bike.  When the child first starts, the parent installs the training wheels and holds on to the bike for the first few rides.  When the parent sees that the child can handle the training wheels, the parent lets go and gives the child some freedom to ride (or to fall).  The same process happens when the training wheels come off!  Does any of this sound familiar?  Does it sound like the way our spiritual lives work?  Just because the parent doesn't have hands on the bike, it doesn't mean the parent isn't watching!  Trust God as he holds the bike of our lives and as he gives us freedom to serve him!

Lord, your ways are not our ways.  Please help us live, learn and serve.

Simply Saturday
I heard this song on the radio last week and had to purchase it.  I think we can offer up this prayer to God at any age!

Write Your Story
Sung by FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI  [video]

They say
You're the King of everything
The One who taught the wind to sing
The Source of the rhythm my heart keeps beating

They say
You can give the blind their sight
And You can bring the dead to life
You can be the hope my soul's been seekin'

I wanna tell You now that I believe it
I wanna tell You now that I believe it
I do, that You can make me new, oh

I'm an empty page
I'm an open book
Write Your story on my heart
Come on and make Your mark

Author of my hope
Maker of the stars
Let me be Your work of art
Won't You write Your story on my heart

Write Your story, write Your story
Come on and write Your story, write Your story
Won't You write Your story on my heart

My life
I know it's never really been mine
So do with it whatever You like
I don't know what Your plan is
But I know it's good, yeah

I wanna tell You now that I believe in
I wanna tell You now that I believe in
In You, so do what You do, oh

I'm an empty page
I'm an open book
Write Your story on my heart
Come on and make Your mark

Author of my hope
Maker of the stars
Let me be Your work of art
Won't You write Your story on my heart

Write Your story, write Your story
Come on and write Your story, write Your story
Won't You write Your story on my heart

I want my history
To be Your legacy
Go ahead and show this world
What You've done in me
And when the music fades
I want my life to say

I let You write Your story, write Your story
Write Your story, write Your story

I'm an empty page
I'm an open book
Write Your story on my heart
Come on and make Your mark

Author of my hope
Maker of the stars
Let me be Your work of art
Won't You write Your story on my heart

Write Your story, write Your story
Come on and write Your story, write Your story
Won't You write Your story on my heart
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The Lord gives us His grace to live purposeful lives of faith as we await His coming.- Our Daily Bread