Heavenly Father I praise You for today and for the days to come. I praise You, and even though this time of year is hard for my family, You are with us. Thank You for the memories I have of Philip putting his train around the tree and when he did it for Garrick. For the time he spent with Alyssa going to see the lights with Garrick and Hensley at Crossroads Village. When he would come home from Tech to enjoy Thanksgiving. Help me today to not only take command of my day but to be able to process through the flow of memories.
Holy Spirit You inspired Paul to write: Let us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification. For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.” For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. [Romans 15:2-6; Romans 15:13] I pray that You grant me patience and comfort so that I can be unity with my brothers and sisters this fall and winter season as we celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas. Help me to find my hope again and use my joy for strength to walk through the valleys. Help me to be a comfort to my family and others.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. I thank my God always concerning the grace of God which was given to me by Christ Jesus, that I am enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in me, so that I come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm me to the end, that I may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom I am called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. [2Corinthians 1:3-7; 1Corinthians 1:4-9]