Quieting My Heart: A Call to Pray

How many people do you know

who need Jesus? 

Who need His Love, His Peace?

Are some close in your families,

so very close to you,

as is the case for me -

and are some friends or neighbors?

And others, strangers

whom you have never even met,

but still, they are on your heart?

They are filling our thoughts and minds

for a purpose …

so that we can pray for them,

for no one can understand 

the things of true Wisdom and Life

without His Spirit to open their eyes.

“ … no one can know God’s thoughts

except God’s own Spirit …

It all sounds foolish to them

and they can’t understand it,

for only those who are spiritual 

can understand what the Spirit means.”

(from I Cor. 2:11, 14)

At the start of this new month …

a fresh call on my heart,

to pray -

to ask God to pour out 

His Spirit of understanding,

on those we love,

on those we are burdened for -

those who are close by, 

and those who are around the world.

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(It is fitting for me to receive this fresh call to pray this week - it would have been my mother’s 98th birthday, today - she was a prayer warrior, and is still, in heaven. She told me about ten years ago, on a hospital bed, after a stroke - “I can’t do very much else, but I can still pray.”)

(Photo taken last month, while visiting a beautiful flower garden in Fort Collins, CO)