Thoughts from Psalm 86

Thoughts for the day (not necessarily in this order): 

1. http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/chocolate-chip-cookies. One word: YUMMMM!!!

2. Help, my house exploded on me: now scrubbing frantically at stains on white shirts, pondering my scary kitchen and thankful to have expelled the first load of washing to the machine!

3. And Psalm 86...

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

  I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.

Lord, please unite my heart today. Don't let me live with a divided heart, running this way and that. I want to thank you and love you with my WHOLE heart. To live simply and intentionally. 

May my children and husband also live with hearts that are whole. May they be truth bearers, truth tellers, truth lovers. May your truth define who they see themselves to be. 

Teach us your way O Lord. Thank you that you do not have many ways, just one. We want to walk in YOUR WAY and in YOUR TRUTH. Thank you that your truth unites my/our heart/s. Thank you that your truth makes me/us whole. 

I will glorify your name forever. Thank you that you have given me your name!

(Reflections of a Monday morning mom... now to start the paying work, while ignoring the guilt of my messy house!)