Daily Light, Gentle Strength

scripture: Psalm 37:39

But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble

Reflection:

God is our strength through every thing.

Prayer prompt:

God, prepare me for what lies ahead.

I chose this verse, because of what day it is, there are a lot of people out ringing in the New Year, and will be needing strength to get through tomorrow.

Their are also families that are preparing to lay a loved one to rest, and their whole family will need the strength to get through tomorrow and every day after.

So tonight I say a Prayer.

Our loving Heavenly Father, thank You for your blessing You provided to us today. Thank You for the love and care of family and friends, when we face a hard time in our lives. Please continue to lovely give us the strength that only You can. Guide us, protect us, and keep us in your loving arms. Forgive us where we fall short in pleasing You. Through Your Loving Son Jesus, Amen

I told you all that I would tell you of my beliefs. I was born to a Protestant Father and my mother was brought up as a Catholic. They agreed that their children would grow up Protestant. We lived over 3 hours away from the nearest church, so our parents read to us from the bible. When we got older we were allowed to the bible studies that we had in the valley once a week.

With my mother from a Catholic up bringing we had a very strong Catholic influence, as we lived closer to mom family then we did dad’s.

By time time I left home, I had gotten myself baptized in a church of people my parents were friends with most or all the adults there, and we had friends our own age there also. We, my siblings and I were visiting friend there for a day or two and went with them to church on Sunday. They were doing the baptizing of some of their members, and I ended up crying uncontrollable, so when they came and ask me if I wanted to get baptized too. I saw no harm in it so I said yes, with a ton of tears rolling down my cheeks.

I left home got married to my husband who was brought up Catholic too. Due to experiences that he had, he has chosen not to practice the religion.

So I wasn’t practicing my religion either this went on for a few years into our marriage, well more like ten or more years, then I started feeling like something was missing in my life. After about two years I realized that it was God that I was missing. So I asked God to come back into my life. A few days later a woman and her girl came to my door, they where Jehovah’s Wittiness’s. We became friends and when I started feeling anger I would get a hold of her and we would have a study. She moved away and then I got tossed from one to an other for my studies. Which I didn’t mind. then I went to their kingdom hall, they were going out in service and I asked if I could go along, at first the answer was yes then just before we were to leave they asked me where they could drop me. I couldn’t go with them because I wasn’t a unpublished or baptized J.W. This hurt and my opinion started to change, I understood where they were coming from, but I still feel unwanted. So slowly I started to distant myself from them and well a few more things happened and I came to the point that I didn’t want to talk about death with them and a couple of weeks ago I told them that I didn’t want to be preached too anymore.

I didn’t want to turn my back on anyone, because they helped me get through a very tough time in my life. Loosing my son. I love them as the people they are, good kind and helpful. I will never forgot any of them.

Anyway I still needed God in my life and I know that I needed to heal from all the lose we had. May of 2020 we lost my 99 year old grandma, dad’s side, June 2020 my mom’s cousin lost her youngest son. July 23 2020 we lost our one and only son. August we lost a few distant cousins, September, October, November were the same, December 23 2020 we lost my father in law. January 2021 we lost a great aunt that I had just met and was getting to know. March we lost a brother in law, grand mother on husband side. May we lost a cousin. The loss slowed down, Until September 22 2022 we lost my dad, September 2 2023 my mom lost every thing to a wild fire. So us siblings have been doing the best we can to get mom started over again. February 14 2025 I found someone, that had froze, not something I want to talk about now.

After all that I knew I needed to keep God close, So I started thinking of how I could do that. I tried writing a Facebook page, it worked for awhile 99 to 101 posts on it.

I finally choose this Daily light Gentle Strength I had Chat GPT help me with scriptures and I use the King James Version to write the scriptures from, I also read before I write it out here. I find it is helping me with the gentle healing. I also hope this can help you in a way.

Thank you for your time,

May God Bring you comfort, peace, and blessings

Forever and always me.