Thu Aug 15 08:57 EDT 1996 This morning's prayer Every morning, before I begin work, the first thing I do on my computer is type in my morning prayer. I have a long window split in two to reveal my prayer list at the top and the morning's prayer appended to the bottom of the same file. Today, I want to share a paragraph of my morning's prayer with all of you. ----- All the burdens listed in the top panel are still on my heart. I tire of repeating them. Do You tire of listening about them? You know the situations; You know the desires. I feel like what the song writer might have felt like when he penned, "Teach me the secret of unanswered prayer." We (I) seem to be dull-witted in seeing the active answers to prayer. I think many of us have come to believe that we don't often know what is best for ourselves and that is why some prayer goes unanswered, or answered in a way we cannot perceive. It isn't much of a wonder why people like Faith and John do not or will not believe in You. To them, I'm talking to an imaginary Friend, and by the discomfort I sense from other Christians, it isn't altogether easy for them to speak to You in front of other Christians. I don't understand it. Or, I understand it only a little, when You bring up the Israelites who took Your real Presence for granted. I am convinced enough about Your existence and love that I'm betting my life on it, and I am glad of it. I know that You have made so much more of me than I could ever have done in myself. The value that I have comes from You, Your love, Your morality, Your wisdom. Fill me this day with Your Spirit and with wisdom. Reveal Yourself to Faith and John undeniably. Work wonders in the lives of Your children and cause them to see it and know it. These things today I pray in the name of Jesus, Amen. -------- I then went on to select a sermon (of Dad's) for distribution and let the Word wash me. God is Good, and I want you all to know it. Mark Mark Metcalfe ______ ______ "...be transformed by the Cadence Design Systems, Inc. _/ Y \_ renewing of your mind that 270 Billerica Road, MS 04 // ~~ ~~ | Romans\\ you may prove what the Chelmsford, MA 01824 // ~ ~ ~~ | 12:2b \\ will of God is, that which Tel: (508) 446-6451 //________.|.________\\ is good and acceptable metcalfe@candence.com `----------`-'----------' and perfect."