Good Morning, Lord.

I slept well last night. Thank-you for that. I know that you gave me the peace that I needed to sleep even though I certainly did not merit that good sleep in the slightest. I need your help today as well, Lord. There are so many things that need to be done. I'd like to have some laundry done for Gwyneth when she gets home--even maybe have some food prepared for tonight's supper.

More importantly than those things though, is the fact that I need your grace to get me through--to give me patience with the children you have given me, to give me discipline to do the things I need to do instead of the the things that I tend to waste my time with. I need your guidance to know even where to start with the mountain of tasks.

Thank-you for this morning's devotions:

I am the LORD: . . . Those who wait for me will not be disappointed.
Blessed is the person who trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is the LORD.
You will keep them in perfect peace, whose mind is focussed on you: because they put their trust in you.

I trust in you, Lord. Help me to trust in you. Amen.

Dear God:

I know that it has been a pretty long time since you and I talked together for any length of time. I guess you might be somewhat expecting that kind of behaviour by now. But I want you to know that I am sorry, and while I haven't been talking to you too much, I am thinking about you a lot.

As you might have guessed, I'm in a bit of trouble again today. I've been struggling with the usual more often than usual lately. Please forgive me for this; for the infidelity, for the lust, for the selfishness. Please work in me through your Spirit to take this sin away from me forever. Let me at least be clean tonight! Please at least make me something somebody can use (preferably you!). I'm full of all these things--things that I have taken on--that I cannot do! I have Hebrew (which is harder than it should be because I'm so undisciplined), I have Anthony and Miriam's wedding that I'm supposed to edit, I have the papers that I'm supposed to be handing in, the books that I'm supposed to read, the kids that I'm supposed to be parenting, the house that I'm supposed to be cleaning, the laundry, the fixing, the slideshow for the church, the bulletin redesign, the letterhead redesign, the this, the that...

I'm sorry I've taken on too much. Please help me.

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