It is a new year! Twenty-ten or 2010 - a new decade begins. The Lord has given me the strength to live through 2009 that was filled with: a shattered femur, forced disability retirement, my father's illness, death, and the eight months that it has taken to deal with his estate or trust. There is still much to deal with but the boxes of bank statements, old photographs, and other papers are sorted and stored. There is a feeling of rightness and peace after cleaning out all the corners and reaching the bottom of a box of dusty bank statements.
The heart is much harder to "clean". It is harder to organize the chaos there. The corners of the heart are more guarded and blocked by endless cobwebs of scars from my past. God through His great mercy, has cleansed me and that continual "cleaning" and forgiveness gives me great hope and peace. Psalm 51 also helps me today:"What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.
Soak me in your laundry and I'll come out clean, scrub me and I'll have a snow-white life.
Tune me in ~ to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing.
Don't look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health.
God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.
Don't throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me.
Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails!" (The Message)
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Cor. 5:17Lord God, thank you for allowing me to remain here, on earth for another year. Help me to walk in the light of Your grace. I have sinned greatly and I have allowed food and my need for food to control my life. Help me to clean out the dark places of my life. Guide me past the scars that are blocking my way to the new life you have ready for me. Thank you for sending Your Son, Jesus to live, die, and live again - all so that I could stand in Your holy presence - a new, forgiven creation. When I think of Your love for me, I want to celebrate! You are worthy to be praised! It is in Your Son's name I pray this prayer, Amen.
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