Tuesday July 19 2016  A HEART OF GRATITUDE

I am so full of topics to write about.  They just all came flooding into my heart as I sat down.  My one problem however is that I have absolutely no time.  One reason is because I am extremely hungry and I don’t function well when I get past a certain point.  After I fix and eat dinner I will be down for the count because of the grueling schedule I have maintained the past several days.  And this is after the great sermon I heard on Sunday that supposedly was to influence me to change my life.  I am working on it.   Just to inform you, one of the changes I’m planning on doing is to write less each day so I can accomplish more work on the books I am hoping to publish.  My goal is to at least have one ready for the printer before December.  It will be self published. 

So, since I spoke about being hungry, that will be the topic of my poem.  Let’s see what appears at my fingertips.

 

OPEN OUR HEARTS LORD

By Kathleen Martens

July 19, 2016

 

Lord, let the words not cross my lips,

“I’m so hungry, I’m starving to death.”

I have never experienced such plight

That lack of food would rob me of breath.

 

Remind me Lord of the hungry and dying

Who are indeed suffering hunger’s pain,

That I would reach out with resources

That others receive health and gain.

 

Let me never take for granted

What you provide day by day.

Give me opportunity Father

To help another along their way.

 

Open my heart and pocket book

To do even the small part I can,

For all my bounty comes from You

So I can help another man.

 

Let not a day pass me by

That I not utter my thanks to You,

For every bite that goes in my mouth

Refreshes my life anew.

 

Not once have I ever felt the dilemma

Of a stomach so empty I’m dying.

Nor have I ever listened

To a starving child crying.

 

Thank You for my daily bread

That I would understand the plight of another

So I never miss an opportunity to extend

What You desire me to do for others.

 

Lord, thank You for my sustenance each day.

Thank You for allowing me to be born in a land of opportunity.

Thank You Lord that our country was founded on You and You have blessed the United States of America.

Thank You that I can go outside and pick a sun-warmed, fresh tomato to eat.

Thank You for water.

 

My prayer for today:

Father, thank You for the outpouring of Your bountiful blessing on this country I live in.

Lord, I ask that you will have mercy on our country for turning its back on the very foundation on which it was founded.  I pray that you will turn the heart of our country to continue its support of Israel so that Your blessing will not be removed from the greatest country on earth.  Thank You for all the food that we, as a country produce, and Lord forgive us for being so wasteful.

I thank You Father for Your creation of such an array of amazing food that You created for our enjoyment.  May we never neglect to partake of it without A HEART OF GRATITUDE.

 

“Genesis 12: 1-3

 Now the Lord had said to Abram:

“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
² I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
³ I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” “

 

GOOD NIGHT AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS OUR COUNTRY.  GOD BLESS YOU TOO!