A Prayer for Inner Peace

~photo by Diane Rupnow in Maui

Monday, February 1. 2010~this is taken from my Cousin John Stumbo's blog. He has suffered for over a year with a disease that has left him weak, unable to swollow. One day he was a strong athlete, the next day he was on life support. God is restoring his health very slowly but he has been thru so much

A sign hangs on the wall at Northwest Rehabilitation where I go for therapy. It reads, "Worry is a misuse of imagination." Imagination is a great gift from God, but left to run off on it's own, it can create a great amount of anxiety in our lives.Take some time today to enjoy the wisdom and to pray the insight of an individual who was seeking to not let his peace be robbed.

And which of you with taking thought can add to His stature one cubit? If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? Consider the lilies how they grow; they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is today in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more will He clothe you, O ye of little faith? Luke 12: 25 – 28

"O God, Who knowest our necessities before we ask, and the manifold temptations we meet with day by day, help us to put our whole trust in Thee when despair and misgivings assail us. Do not allow us, we beseech Thee, to become the prey of useless forebodings, nor to lose the things which belong to our peace, through the habit of morbid and sinful worry. So guide us, in all our way, that we may keep our faces always toward the light, that our shadows may lie behind us. Of Thy great mercy enable us to perceive our blessings, that we may always serve Thee with a glad heart and quiet mind, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen"
~Bishop Charles E. Woodcock, D.D., LL.D.Louisville, Kentucky in God's Minute, 1916

Keep the shadows behind you.