Today is a Good Day

Selah

You are my Father

And I, your beloved daughter.

Abba,

You look at me with joy,

Seeing something beautiful

In both my pain and my struggles.

My dear Protector,

You will never let the devil destroy me—

Rescuing me from the cyclone

Of my insecurity before I am sucked in.

When I cry

And am soaked in the gravity

Of hurt and anxiety

You kiss my face with gentle winds—

Embracing me with loving sunshine.

You gave me Christ—

Both my brother and my Savior—

So that I might know you better,

So that you could abide within me.

Oh my Father,

That you chose these sprawling limbs

And utter clumsiness to be your temple!

Truly, I am loved

Truly, I am honored.

My heart now resonates

With your incomprehensible love

That heals me even as a write,

Even as I breath in the steadiness of your presence.

In your practiced hands

I place my anxiety, my hopes, my love,

Knowing you will do me justice,

That you will treat me with the utmost care.

Praise God that I am not an oracle!

That I might learn to trust.

Praise God that I am broken!

That I might be healed.

Praise God when there is darkness in me!

That he might show me light.

Praise God that I have felt unloved!

That I might know his grace.

Matthew 6:25-33 "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."