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To: Kitty Mittens

I'm so glad you got to see the Meadowlarks
Sweet Dreams

593 posted on 02/12/2012 8:19:27 PM PST by MEG33 (Support Free Republic Today!)
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Wings Like A Dove

February 13, 2012

David sighed, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest” (Ps. 55:6). As for me, I’d build a cabin in the Sawtooths, or take a permanent post in a fire-lookout tower. When life weighs on me, I too yearn to fly away and be at rest.

David wrote freely about his circumstances: Violence, oppression, and strife surrounded him on all sides, stirred up by the disloyalty of an old friend (55:8-14). Fear and terror, pain and trembling, anxiety and restlessness overwhelmed him (vv.4-5). Is it any wonder he longed to fly away?

But escape was impossible. He could not evade his lot. He could only give his circumstances to God: “As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice” (vv.16-17).

Whatever our circumstances—a burdensome ministry, a difficult marriage, joblessness, or a deep loneliness—we can give them to God. He has lifted the burden of our sins; will He not lift the weight of our sorrows? We have trusted Him with our eternal souls; can we not entrust our present circumstances to Him? “Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you” (55:22).

Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
And you will be singing as the days go by. —Oatman

Because God cares about us, we can leave our cares with Him.

Read: Psalm 55:4-22

Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. —Psalm 55:6
Bible in a year:
Numbers 28-30


594 posted on 02/13/2012 6:50:11 AM PST by The Mayor ("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat" — Ronald Reagan)
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To: MEG33; All; FRiends; everyone
Thank you for the Sweet Bird Gif Last Night, Dear Meg!

(((((Monday Hugs to All FRiends)))))



614 posted on 02/13/2012 11:02:03 AM PST by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!)
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To: MEG33

Precious graphic from last evening, Meg!


639 posted on 02/13/2012 12:06:46 PM PST by jaycee ((("His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.")))
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