Cheerful Morning

February 22, 2012

I woke praying this morning. My cat purred away as my spaniel nudged my hand for his morning belly scratch.

Thank You, God.

I laid there listening to the early birds sing to the new morning. My big boy labs barking and alarm clocks sounding throughout the house. Shaking us all awake from our sleep.

Thank You, God.

My heart has grown grateful over the past few weeks. I arose knowing that today, from the ashes, a new me has been freed.

Today, Ash Wednesday, I am anointed to seek a “right spirit” and to leave the distractions behind. Those distractions clearly have prevented me to be truly free.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10

Thank You, God.

The lighting of one single candle within the 40 seems so dim. Alone. Afraid. Like my heart. As the days of Lent unfold, I trust and thirst hard for God. Lighting more and more candles….. strengthening the light to burn brighter.

Like my faith, my soul, my fragile heart….. Christ’s light burning brighter within me.

Thank You, God.
Regina