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January 17, 2021
10:02 am

Good morning, Father. Thank you for helping me through lots of ups and downs, with awesome times with my Mate and extremely difficult times with my work. Thank you for providing for our needs and giving me a way to feel safe enough and not quite as stressed out as I was previously. Lord, you see everything that is in me, everything I need, everything that I AM. I know that you will give me just what I need, WHEN I need it, and I do not need to fear or worry. Please help me to get better at focusing on the moment and not feeling weighed down by concerns of the future. Help me to be your Little Acceptance with Joy, just like in the Hinds Feet book. :D Amen. Lead on, faithful Shepherd!

Psalm 18:25-33 ERV

Lord, you are faithful to those who are faithful. You are good to those who are good. You never do wrong to those who have done no wrong. But you outsmart the wicked, no matter how clever they are. You help those who are humble, but you humiliate the proud. LORD, you provide the flame for my lamp. You, God, turn the darkness around me into light. With your help I can defeat an army. If my God is with me, I can climb over enemy walls. God’s way is perfect. The LORD’S promise always proves to be true. He protects those who trust in him. There is no God except the LORD. There is no Rock except our God. God is the one who gives me strength. He clears the path I need to take. He makes my feet as steady as those of a deer. Even on steep mountains he keeps me from falling.

Lord, sometimes I truly feel like I am failing in my work. I can publish 3 books in 3 weeks and keep working on the series so that I almost have the FIFTH Jo Journal done now. I can drive my Mate to places to get his items for him to fix and flip. I can work two 14 hour shifts in a week and cook 3 meals and a snack for 13 people in one day and do all the cleaning and barely have a moment to sit down… or I can cover 3 coworkers in one day and force myself to stay until midnight when I was tired by 6pm. I can even be light enough and loving enough to remain well liked and appreciated by my clients. Yet I still manage to feel like a failure somehow, Lord. I do not understand my own self. Please help me to finish my Jo Timeline journal and perhaps start on one of the self-management type ones, so that I can use it to help mine own self to REALIZE how STRONG I am, through your awesome provision and mercy. Help me to create a Jo Journal that helps myself and other people in their daily struggles, Lord. I ask you to bless me with the wisdom, patience, courage, and understanding to create these next Jo Journals and to do a GOOD JOB. I ask you to help me be more self-compassionate and patient with myself. I ask you to help me let go of worry and self-doubt and feelings of failure. I ask you to remind me that I get my strength and sustenance from YOU — not from the things that I do. Amen. Thank you, kind Shepherd. <3

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