Sept 10.99: Light For The Day - "The Difference"

ONE WHO TAKES TIME FOR PRAYER
WILL FIND TIME FOR OTHER THINGS.

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"Continue earnestly in prayer,
being watchful in it with thanksgiving." 
-- Colossians 4:2 (RSV)

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"The Difference"

I got up early on morning
and rushed right into the day;
I had so much to accomplish
that I didn't have time to pray.

Problems just tumbled about me,
and heavier came each task.
"Why desn't God help me?" I wondered.
He answered, "you didn't ask."

I wanted to see joy and beauty.
but the day toiled on, gray and bleak;
I wondered why God dindn't show me.
He said, "But you didn't seek."

I tried to come into God's presense;
I used all my keys at the lock.
God gently and lovingly chided,
"My child you didn't knock."

I woke up earrlly this morning,
and pause before entering the day;
I had so much to accomplish
that I had to take time to pray.

-- Unknown. 

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"Ask, and it will be given you; 
seek, and you will find; 
knock, and it will be opened to you."
-- Matthew 7:7 (RSV)