Daily Grace

    As I started my Multitudes Mondays post it made me realize how many blessings I overlook each day. Most of the time I take the multitudes given to me for granted. Reading over the list I realize that even the simplest things in life are gifts from the Lord. For example, I am blessed with having a cell phone. So many people don't even have a home to live in, let alone a phone, but yet, I constantly take that for granted. Yesterday, we drove by the Samaritan Inn, a place in downtown Roanoke devoted to feeding and clothing the homeless and poor. My heart broke in half to see so many homeless families including many small children. I (only half) jokingly said to my husband, "I want to adopt the homeless!"  I even felt guilty in knowing that I was going to go home and enjoy the warmth, the food in the refrigerator and a hot shower later that evening. Most of the people standing outside the Samaritan Inn didn't even have blankets to keep warm. And I spend some days worrying and obsessing over what I'm going to cook for dinner. Instead, I simply need to bow my head, close my eyes, and thank God above for providing for us in every way. 


"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
Matthew 6; 25-34