My Corner Online

 

Bursting with Prayers

Lord,

 

My heart and mind are bursting with prayers.  I feel a need to write them down, to get them out of my head.  I feel You telling me to share them in this time of great need in this world. I turned down joining a group of women because it just did not feel right, saying that You would put me in a place where I need to be and now I hear you saying, hey, Cheryl, you ARE in that place!  You are on online and you have people who read what you write and I have given you the gift to write. I have given you the gift of the photography eye. I have gifted you with faith! Lord, I sit and wonder what I should be doing now for those who follow me online and You are saying to me, "use the talents I have given you to help others who feel they do not know how to pray." So, Lord, I say, "here I am." I am typing out my thoughts as they come to my mind.  Oh, thank You for giving me the talent of fast fingers that can type almost as fast as I can talk!  I think and my fingers generate what I think! Yet to be in prayer and yet have it come forth through my fingers.  I close my eyes and the words pour out from my mind and through my fingers and onto a place where I can share them with others.  I feel so silly like an artist who closes his or her eyes while feeling the song coming out of their mouth and yet it is coming out of my fingers!  Oh glory to You oh God for giving me this ability! It's magical! Everything that is in me is You and You alone do all things. I have little gift for speaking and yet You can use me in other ways.

 

I have a desire Lord to only fill the social networking stream with good because everyone is getting so tired of all this corona-virus stuff.  I  feel a desire to have some profound thought come out of my mind before I post that actually is meaningful to others and yet nothing comes! Oh wait, You say! Prayer is so meaningful and it is coming out of your mind! Just do it! Don't worry whether or not it is a positive or negative thing in people's streams. I'll handle that, You say to me! Thanks God for the timing of Spring upon us and the ever-changing sanctuary of flowers in my garden. I hear you saying how they can be the positive in all this and that they can not only brighten someone's day, but remind them of Your glory and goodness and the love that You give us through Your creation.

 

I think about how I always post online and then go back and delete it later. I have not done a permanent blog-like series in a long time, but I feel a sense that this needs to be out there for others to read at the time they most need to read it. So here it is Lord, a new place on my website for these prayers. It is odd how I have no intention one moment and then the next I feel You speaking to me so loudly that I take action. Everyone is going to be stuck at home during this virus outbreak and so online is where this needs to be. Praise be to You, O, Lord. No fluff, nothing special for me to do, just put it out there and those who need to find it will find it. That's trust in You, O' God. I trust You.

 

Lord, thank You for giving me guidance and direction for the weeks to come. I have so many projects and things I could be working on and will have time to work on and yet I feel like a pinball machine not knowing which way to go when I share online and You have found me and called me and have placed me where I need to be. Work through me Lord. Amen. So be it. Amen.

 

March 21, 2020