I awoke this a.m. and found it hard to get going. The sun helped. My warm bath soothed. Sometimes it’s hard to know how to begin a new day with the right attitude.
I flipped through some old songs and found a worship chorus I wrote back in two thousand and four. It made me think of my Grandmother who told me, “the best time to be thankful is when you don’t feel like it.”
“And how do you do that” I asked her.
“Choose an attitude of praise” she replied.
So I took the song “I Will Hold to Your Promise”, and went down memory lane, out loud, at the piano.
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I confess with my mouth
I believe with my heart now
I accept your gift of love
take my sin to the west
throw it over your shoulder
cover me and lift me up
I will hold to the promise
I will see you one day
I will hold to the promise you have made,
my Lord
I will hold to the promise
I will see you one day
I will hold to the promise you have made
“as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us” (Psalm 103:12).
“Promise” is a beautiful word. God has promised to forgive of us of our sins, to be in relationship with us, and to return for us one day.
Suggested reading 2nd Peter, chapter 3 – The Day of the Lord.
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