Good morning, Lord. Now I know why bears hibernate. “In Your Presence is where I want to be. All that I am, with all of my life…beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, You are beautiful. In Your Presence is where I am made complete. My one request is to see Your face. Come fill me with Your Presence. I give You control, I give up my rights.” I surrender my strengths and my weaknesses to You. I am amazed that You love me so. I am amazed that You accept me unconditionally. I walk into Your Presence, unashamed, confident, knowing that You will not turn away from me. In Your Presence is where I find the courage and strength to hold my head up high and live in victory. Your ways are higher than mine. Here we are back to my lawn again. Awhile back I wrote about the weeds in my yard, how my obsession with removing them, overwhelms me. I’m not a winter person, I love to feel and see the sunshine. I don’t like bulky clothes and closed toed shoes. So…my yard is brown….the grass is dead and I’m not too crazy about the look. Something I have observed again are the weeds. Can you imagine it???? The grass is brown and dead looking…but the weeds are green and seem to be thriving nicely. What’s that about? I’m not a scientist and don’t fully understand….but this analogy is obvious to me. Now….I can pull up those weeds or put weed killer on them, because they stand out and I’m not confused about what is grass and what are weeds. Yup….Yup….Gotcha weeds….. What are some of the weeds in my life? In all reality, I can’t pull up any weeds in my soul…but I know the Gardener of Life and He can. My responsibility is seeing those weeds and asking Him to kill them. Sometimes, I don’t see the weeds as plain because I am looking through my own eyes and not submitting my garden to the control of the Holy Spirit. My prayer, Lord, Is that those weeds be removed from my life. I ask You to rid my soul of many of the weeds at Your Own discretion. I am accepting the fact that “weeds” will be in my garden and some will grow up with the good grass…but as I live life You will “burn” those weeds out of my life in Your time and in Your way. I trust You, Your Love is sweeter than wine. Yes, I see those weeds, they are sometimes more obvious to me than the grass. The “winter” of life has come and affected my grass…but the roots are intact and come spring….when the sun shines bright, when the birds sing louder as they hover overhead….I can walk outside and bask in the glory of the Son (sun). I can stretch as I sense the grass is growing strong from the roots and eventually will be more evident than the weeds. My request Lord is to see Your face. Come fill this place. Today I am Snuggled in His Love for me, Mary Ann
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