THANKSGIVING PRAYER FOR CHANGES!         DO 2943  10/92

         1. Thank You, Lord, for bringing us to the end of another wonderful day, and for all that was accomplished. Bless and keep us and help us to sleep well again. Thank You for how quiet it's been here and how well we've slept, with no more real bad coughing spells. We're sure it's been as a result of the Family's prayers, because we don't know what it is about this place that's any quieter or better than where we were before.
         2. You know best, Lord, that changes and a challenge are good for me and they help to keep me going. We're just on the move, always changing and liking change. We're profiting from it, benefiting, because it keeps us adaptable and able to take changes, whereby we can learn many things.
         3. Without changes we would be too self-confident and too sure of ourselves and our environment. If everything was the same and never changed, we would feel perfectly secure, as many people do, and even feel they can do without You! They are products of their environment. They seem to think their environment made them and that they are perfectly secure because they are in the same home, same school, with the same teachers, same jobs or whatever, Lord, so they don't look to You as we do. The only thing we've had to look to for years has been You, the only thing that doesn't change. "All things change but Jesus never, glory to Your name!" Thank You Jesus!
         4. We believe this has strengthened us spiritually, that You have been the only unchangeable thing in our lives! Our homes, our cities, our jobs, everything has always been constantly changing, but we're thankful, Lord, that You never change! You've always been the same stabilizing influence in our lives, the One Who has never changed and is always the same and always there to be counted on to remain the same and be our stabilizer. You are the only thing we really need to cling to, and You remain stable, unchanging, always reliable, and we can always count on You. Thank You Lord!
         5. Thank You, Lord, that these changes have taught us to rely on You as our only security. We know something about change must do us good or You wouldn't let us keep changing!--Especially me, Lord, I seem to have a need for it, a yen for it, more than some people. But thank You for the dear people who humor me and go along with me and are willing to adapt to these changes themselves in order to help me and please me, like You've helped Mama to do so much. It's been hard on her, but she's always borne it and come through shining, courageous, brave, cheerful, strong and faithful, such an inspiration! Thank You that even for her, for whom changes are difficult, You have turned these burdens into blessings and she's always come through and come around to liking our new situations.
         6. It seems like all the changes You've given us have always been changes for the better! You've never taken away one Home unless You've given us another that was better in some way. You've never taken away one job unless You've given us something better, always improving and always making things better for us, giving us the desires of our hearts because we delight ourselves in Thee (Psa.37:4). You've cast our lines in pleasant places and kept us safe and secure, no matter what the conditions are.
         7. Help us, Lord, to just live each day, one day at a time, and not fret ourselves for tomorrow. Each day is enough, and we know not what the morrow will bring forth. You said, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" (Mat.6:34). We know that every day has a little evil, a few problems, but we thank Thee there are so few and that our victories are so numerous, our joys are so numerous, our pleasures are so numerous, our health is so good and You're blessing us all. Thank You Jesus!
         8. Help Mama's eyes, Lord. We know how through this squeezing of the fruit You've gotten sweeter juice and she's written better Letters than ever, and through this trial she's been a greater blessing to others in holding up the standard of courage and faith and love for all the rest of the Family! Thank You Jesus!--In spite of her affliction. When many others have afflictions too, she's demonstrating how to get the victory over them and how to be an even greater blessing.
         9. Work out whatever You're working out through this change and through our living here, Lord, and do work and do with us accordingly so that we will do even better than we have before and accomplish more, in Jesus' name, amen!


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