Foot Steps
This an area to share moments in our life in which we realize the significance of God. These are our daily footsteps.

My God

      My God, My Father, My Friend, I seek Your face. I hear your voice calling me close and I want you forever. I know that I am fearfully and wonderful made in Your image. Please bestow Your grace on my life as my name means “God is gracious”. You are gracious and will remain gracious forever because You do not change.
     So often you put the mirror to my face and I see my pride and sin. I know my weaknesses but I can only rest assured of your faithfulness, forgiveness, and extreme lovingkindness.
      I hear Your voice in my spirit. Oh God, my Father, I love you. Please draw me close. Shelter me under Your wings. Commune with me and reveal Yourself to me. I need nothing more than You. You sustain me and you consume me.
     You have not given me a flicker of light. You have given me a fire… an all consuming fire within my mind, body, soul, and spirit. No one or nothing can quench the flames of love I have for you each and everyday. As you have revealed yourself, I have known that You are and always will be my God.
     You have not given me a hope of intimacy with the Almighty. You have given me intimacy which is satisfied daily through the reading of Your Holy Bible. You are truly amazing, awesome, wonderful, majestic, powerful and my Creator.

I love you, Lord

     Oh Lord, I seek not just your blessings. These are wonderful gifts that you bestow on us because of your love and generosity. I seek your favor. I seek your presence. I seek your unfailing, never ending love. I need to know in every part of my being as I already know in my heart your great love and compassion that you have for me.
     When I seek blessings it is only for my children. My life on earth is limited and needs no blessings because you have given me more blessing that I could ever imagine. My list of thanksgiving is endless. What I seek more than blessing is your presence. I need you. I need you when I wake and when I lie down. I need you every moment of my life.
     Life is not easy but you are gracious, loving and kind. You reveal yourself to those who diligently seek you. Please remember me and see my desire to ever seek your face and determine to always know your will. I fail but you forgive and heal. I am in pieces. I am constantly being broken and you continually come and repair my distraught heart.
     Give me wisdom but not just wisdom also give me the never ending desire to obey you. You words are burned in my heart. “To obey is better than sacrifice.” My obedience is my life line to your perfect will.
     My steps to your presence require my obedience and my never ending love which you have established in my heart is the key to this relationship. You have given me love, you have given me desire and you have given me passion. This passion to know you never leaves me. Although life is unpredictable and I am unable to comprehend its meaning. I truly know that all I have need is you. I love you.

Hear me, Oh God

      My heart hurts my soul is overwhelmed. My feelings desire control but my intellect and will refuse to submit. Please have mercy… I know that you are a loving caring God of the universe. My spirit bears witness to your character by my feelings wants to feed on the rot of humanity. Please be my good shepherd. Help me to hear your voice. Lead me in the path of righteousness for thy name sake.
My physical discomfort is overwhelming. My voice is not heard but you alone hear me.
     I have known your heart oh God. You have shared yourself with me. My joy is beyond compare. My earthly body is merely the shell in which I reside but my spirit, mind, and soul will seek you forever. Your words bring soothing ointment to my physical and mental wounds. Your actions demonstrate you steadfast love. I will love you with every breath that I take because you are my God.

 
 

"Have a nice day"

While at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, I saw all the scraps of paper in the wall. I was in awe. I was sure this wall could never fall because the paper alone would keep it standing erect. Every visible crack was filled. The height that it covered was also truly amazing. I could not imagine how someone got that high up on the wall. After looking at the historic site and being totally stunned by the amount of paper in the wall, my Jewish friend and I were getting ready to write our note. We had the covering over our head and we were both very quiet.
           I was convinced this was one of the most important events of my life. I had no idea what I was going to write. As I looked at the wall, I realized something. People came to this wall to insert their petition to God. I began to wonder what God would want. What would God write on His note if He could write a petition? I wrote on the note “Have a nice day”. This was my prayer for God to have a nice day. The weight of everyone wanting something from Him must be astounding and truly heartbreaking. Do we ever think what God wants? I know that I don’t always think about God’s needs, wants, and desires. I cried and backed out of the area. I was not allowed to walk forward until I reached a certain line and then I was able to face forward.
          I was walking back to the car with my family and I was communicating with God. I asked God how I could make His day happy. I thought about it. My husband loves to verbally share his daily life with me so I asked God to share His life with me. All of a sudden, the most incredible, intense, and overwhelming feeling of disappoint came over me. I do not believe that it lasted more than a second before I told God please take it away. Of course before I could finish saying those words the feeling was gone.
          To say that it was a feeling of disappoint trivializes the true nature of this feeling. I really do not have any word to describe this feeling in any other way. I did not feel depressed or even sad. It was total and complete disappointment. He then said to me I feel that every day.
         My puny physical body could not tolerate a small moment of this disappoint but God feels it everyday all day long. I cried. I had asked God to share His life and I was unable to listen and understand all His pain. I cry today when I think about that feeling. I can never take away the hurt God endures and continues to endure because of all of us. I told God that I would try each and every day to bring joy into His life.