Oh glorious day!

Oh, glorious day full of sunlight and possibility may we treasure your every moment! How can we comprehend the vastness of God's love for us? This thought gives such hope and joy to my waiting heart. In the stillness of each morning I awake in prayerful anticipation and wish to glimpse a few moments of his grace. The one who causes stars to shine in the sky so blue, while heaven and earth applaud with bird song and thunders of praise!


Oh Holy One, creator of all which is, and all which will come to be; and yet we can come before you as children of the King and find you always waiting and stretching out arms of comfort to your children. Grace beyond measure, poured out and flowing through a world which so desperately seeks you. So many hearts are in need of a Savior.


Grace is a garment of forgiveness and protection. Those who are covered in divine mercies know of time set aside to marvel at the gifts of each moment. Some days I sit and ponder at the joy I know my dear sweet husband experiences each day as he lives new life with God! No longer does the cruelty of cancer cause his once strong body to weaken and die. I picture him as a young man, full of awe at the majesty of God! Full of joy and vitality, walking once more; no pain within his once weary bones which cancer made weak and caused him to be unable to care for himself.




He wanted to live! He had some many things he wished to delight in; Our beautiful granddaughter's wedding to her new husband, the graduation of our grandson from the Virginia State Trooper Academy, a trip to Hawaii and a simple life spent loving others. I long for his arms to hold me once again and for his voice to sound in my ears. His beautiful green eyes followed me everywhere in love and protection. Each time I walk the halls of the hospital from which he retired I imagine him coming to be with me to reassure my heart with his words of love and comfort. How can I ever love this way again?


There is a Savior! He has become my husband in a spiritual sense. The one who will never leave or forsake me. A constant friend, everlasting to everlasting, my God. My  prayer is for the musings of my heart to somehow touch others that they may come to know the goodness of our heavenly Father.


 John 3:16 reads, For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the whole world through Him might be saved. Whosoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whosoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.


Praying you will take heart and realize the gift before you. Trust in Him. It's the only way to find peace and joy today! R.B.