30-5 morning prayer

Positivity

P lease Lord, help me renew my mind.

O pen my eyes to Your grace, mercy, promises and

S alvation and what all that includes.

I pray for revelation, vision and realization of Your promises.

T oday as I plan out the day and the weeks ahead,

I pray that You set me free to live the life You called me to live.

V ictory, overcoming, boldness, power, enthusiasm, positivity

I magination, creativity, energy, life, light, happiness, fulfillment, joy, hope, love, a

T otal rewiring of my brain and how it thinks. All things are possible with

Y ou. Change my thinking to embrace and receive all that You have for me.

30-4 morning prayer

Holy

H oly, amazing wonderful God

O pen my eyes to Your grace and truth

L et Your love reign in my heart. Help me love

Y ou and love others as myself. You alone are worth of my praise and adoration.

PAD countdown 30-3 hope

Hope

(shadorma)

Foundation

Strong, ancient boulder

Guiding light

Fragrant air

Hefty rope on which to cling

Lover’s warm embrace

PAD countdown 30-2 hope

Hope

(Lune)

Protruding rock rests

Creek rushes

Hiking boots kept dry

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Hope

(acrostic)

H olding on to truths

O verriding our

P roblems with

E ternity in view

PAD Countdown 29-3 Response

“The Old Pond” by Matsuo Bashō

An old silent pond

A frog jumps into the pond—

Splash! Silence again.

An Old Pond by Connie L. Peters

An old icy pond

Kids skating, laughing, shouting

Echoing through time

PAD countdown 29-2 response

The Pearl

By George Herbert

I know the wayes of Learning; both the head
And pipes that feed the presse, and make it runne;
What reason hath from nature borrowed,
Or of itself, like a good huswife, spunne
In laws and policie; what the starres conspire,
What willing nature speaks, what forc’d by fire;
Both th’ old discoveries and the new-found seas,
The stock and surplus, cause and historie;
All these stand open, or I have the keyes:
Yet I love thee.

I know the wayes of Honour; what maintains
The quick returns of courtesie and wit;
In vies of favours whether partie gains
When glorie swells the heart and moldeth it
To all expressions both of hand and eye,
Which on the world a true-love-knot may tie,
And bear the bundle wheresoe’re it goes;
How many drammes of spirit there must be
To sell my life unto my friends or foes:
Yet I love thee.

 I know the wayes of Pleasure, the sweet strains , 
The lullings and the relishes of it;                         
The propositions of hot bloud and brains;               
What mirth and musick mean; what love and wit  
Have done these twentie hundred yeares, and more;
I know the projects of unbridled store:
My stuffe is flesh, not brasse; my senses live,
And grumble oft, that they have more in me
Than he that curbs them, being but one to five:
Yet I love thee.e

I know all these and have them in my hand;
Therefore not seeled but with open eyes
I flie to thee, and fully understand
Both the main sale and the commodities;
And at what rate and price I have thy love,
With all the circumstances that may move.
Yet through the labyrinths, not my groveling wit,
But thy silk twist let down from heav’n to me
Did both conduct and teach me how by it
To climbe to thee.

My Pearl

Connie L. Peters

I know there’s many pleasure on this Earth.

I’ve traveled end to end of this fair land.

And I have owned possessions of great worth.

And I’ve seen opportunities expand.

And I’ve enjoyed discoveries in books.

Been loved by men with charm and handsome looks.

And I have felt the pride when I excelled.

Though there’s so much to have and be and do,

Surpassing all, my heart has been unveiled,

And I love You.