Living With Purpose

When morning dawns and my flesh feels weak, My heart becomes heavy, my failures start to speak - Help me to hear Your loving voice Calling me to make You my choice. When filled with You, my spirit is light. My heaviness flees, my days become bright. Heal me from heartache. Deliver me from woe. Help me Thy strength in my weakness to know. Oh love of God, wash over my soul. Take over my fear and my spirit control. From sin I will run, from wrong I will flee, 'Til my heart again rests safely in Thee.

Recently reading a biography on the life of Billy Sunday, I ran across this prayer he prayed to open a session of the House of Representatives in 1918. This prayer tugged on my heartstrings considering that there are some who would see prayer removed from every faction of our lives. Christians are called bigots and intolerant, but as my husband was told recently in a conversation by one such person, their intolerance for Christianity is justified and even necessary. It seems strange that a group of people who follow the teachings of One who taught that they are to love their enemies are considered so dangerous. If you aren't aware of a fire chief that was recently relieved of his job because he wrote a book for his church in which he said God says homosexuality is wrong, please read here. The following is a breath of fresh air, but also a sad reminder of the freedoms we are losing. Oh to have the boldness to lovingly sand up for what God says is right, and share His love with...