In this mornings prayers, this verse really caught my attention unlike it has ever done so before. In a recent conversation with a close friend about the spiritual life, she had asked me how things were going. I was quick to say that lately, I have struggled. As we talked, I began to see how much I had been unwilling to rely on God. I know that I can easily slip into a pattern by which everything I do, I do unilaterally; without God. Sometimes, even in the midst of doing what seems to be all the “right” things, I still slip. It takes me quite some time to recognize where I have gone; trekking through the wilderness on my own. It does not have to be that way! When I finally wake up, I take great comfort in knowing that it is first the recognition and then the acceptance on my part that I have been doing it alone. In that acceptance and asking in humility, I am given the richness of God’s love; through His word received in Scripture, in conversation with friends and in encounters with others. If I ask, He first, makes me lie down in green pastures and then I am nourished.
I have arrived family