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AS YOU LOOK at the day before you, you see a twisted, complicated path, with branches going off in all directions. You wonder how you can possibly find your way through the maze. Then you remember the One who is with you always, holding you by your right hand. You recall My promise to guide you with My counsel, and you begin to relax.

As you look again at the path ahead, you notice that a peaceful fog has settled over it, obscuring your view. You can see only a few steps in front of you, so you turn your attention more fully to Me and begin to enjoy My presence.

The fog is a protection for you, calling you back into the present moment. Although I inhabit all of space and time, you can communicate with Me only here and now. Someday the fog will no longer be necessary, for you will have learned to keep your focus on Me and on the path just ahead of you.

1 Corinthians 13:12      Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

Whether in tangled branches or obscuring fog, in clear or stormy conditions, whether joyful or sad; God is with us. He is walking beside us, holding our hand. He is within us feeling and knowing all. He is beyond us shaping our reality and guiding us on the path to Eden.

So today, let us rise above doubt, fear, anxiety, guilt, hurt and loss to embrace God, commune with God and exist in the hope of joy. It is in doing these things that we find each step on God’s path and proceed with sure pace and steadfast faith to Eden.

Looking out; looking in,

Z gardener

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LIVE FIRST AND FOREMOST in My Presence.

Gradually you will become more aware of Me than of people and places around you. This awareness will not detract from your relationship with others. Instead, it will increase your ability to give love and encouragement to them. My peace will permeate your words and demeanor.

You will be active in the world, yet one step removed from it. You will not be easily shaken, because My enveloping Presence buffers the blow of problems.

This is the path I have set before you. As you follow wholeheartedly, you experience abundant Life and Peace.

Psalm 89:15-16    Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord. They rejoice in your name all day long; they exalt in your righteousness.

Psalm 16:8    I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

2 Peter 1:2    Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God in Jesus our Lord.

Michael & Alison Smitherman

The Singing NetSurfers

I will sing to my Lord as long as I live, I will sing

praise to my God while I have my being.

As we focus on God, his peace manifests itself through our words and demeanor while our ability to love and encourage grows.

 Unshaken and shielded from life’s blows, we experience overflowing life and peace.

 Following God with all our heart, we find the path to Eden, here and forever.

 Amen,

Z gardener

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