Sunday, August 12, 2012

YGT: Thirsty Prayer

You're everywhere. In the morning dew. In the air I breathe. In the shower. In the toothbrush. In the coffee. You're inescapable. The lunchtime downpour reminds me of your omnipresence. The hurricane warning reminds me of your omnipotence.

You come in many forms, but specifically three - in gas, liquid, and solid. You encompass the whole earth as a gas, most of the earth as a liquid, and two poles as a solid. Even most of my body is made up of you. I can tell when I sweat and especially when I cry.

Water, you live in me and enliven me. You are vast and yet you can be consumed through a straw. I take you in constantly and let you out involuntarily. You comfort in the heat and whet the brow of the exhausted. You give life. You take life.  

When I'm thirsty, you satisfy.




God, you're everywhere. In the morning dew. In the air I breathe. In the shower, the toothbrush, and the coffee. You're omnipresent, ominpotent, and omniscient. You're everywhere, all-powerful, and all-knowing.

You're triune - you exist in three forms, but one. As Father, as Son, and as Spirit - as God. I know I'm made up of your God-stuff.  I reflect your capacity to work and your willingness to feel pain.

God, you live in me and have given me life. You're so big and yet so accessible I can feel you now. When I'm not trying you're still here. I receive you and release you, often without knowing. You've been a comforter and deliverer. You give and take away.  

I am thirsty...

Blessed be Your name.  



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Genesis 1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Psalm 24:2 - For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

John 7:38 - He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Monday, August 6, 2012

YGT: Bottom 5 Posts of 2012 (so far)


This year, I started out on a journey to chronicle great thoughts that were the source of great sermons.  That led to a weekly post with the thought for that week.  Here's the bottom five posts* for the first half of the year from January 1 to June 1:

  1. The First Earth Day (and Night)
  2. Wading In
  3. Summer Reading Club
  4. Glowing in the Dark
  5. Jesus to His Followers - Be Co0l

Check them out if you'd like.  Here's the Top 5 posts!


Lord, thank You for the opportunity to document my random thoughts.  I love that You love me and call me Your own.  In Christ's name, Amen.


Blessings,
j.a.g.




*by numbers of times they've been viewed