Joy in the New Year

A brand new day in a brand new year. As a friend suggested, I decided to ask God for a Scripture for this year. He provided me this morning with Isaiah 12, particularly 2, 3.

""Surely God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afriad. The LORD, the LORD Is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation." With JOY you will draw water from the wells of salvation."

So with that JOY I feel a new strength and song in my heart. I am ready to write for Him, to practice more and take more courses. In order to do that I have decided to drop a few things that don’t fit into this plan. It is hard to give up something once you start it, but I feel a peace in doing this.

Here is another poem:

Meditation Psalm 119:48 "I lift up my hands to your commands, which I love,
and I meditate on your decrees."

In the quiet and stillness

You are there.

You arrive slowly

Enveloping me with a warmth and peace.

I feel Your Presence intensifying

As You hold me in a spell-binding embrace.

I don’t want to let You go.

I hold on to the moment.

I remember it.

I thank You for all Your blessings.

I remember others to You.

We are together, we are connected.

Time passes.

I must return to my daily tasks.

But, I take with me Your peace,

Your joy, and the memory,

Of You.