As the sunrises outside
On this final day of the work week
Of this week of blistering heat
I am thankful for
My solar fueled home
My functioning and better maintained AC unit
The new air filter placed in it last week
The person who place it there on September 1st
The cooler mornings
The opportunity to see the rising sun more than once this week
The coaches who moved practices to the early morning hours to beat the heat
The women who met me for an early morning ride yesterday
The opportunity to ride again today after dawn
My God
Whose mercies are new each and every morning
Who set the sun in the sky during the birth of creation
Who set the very moment of this morning’s rising sun
Who chases the darkness away with His light
Who renews me each new day
Who prepares me for the next thing He calls me to
The colorful sunrise
The men and women fighting the current wildfire in the foothills
The cooler temperatures coming this weekend to ease that burden
The rain in the forecast to prayerfully help extinguish the fire
Though this fire scorches the earth where it burns and will leave a scar
Thankful that new life will arise out of it
My life
The men and women who fought to help me emerge from one of the darkest decades of my life
To see the new light dawning
To be reminded of God’s goodness and faithfulness
The joy each new morning can bring
The people who journeyed into and through this wilderness with me – you know who you are
My girls for the beautiful warriors they are and are becoming
My relationships – new and old – and the new life being breathed into them
My thoughts that are being renewed each day
My feelings in all their intensity, depth, height, sorrow, delight, and hope –
To feel them, for them to move through me, and to release them
My God
My Rock
My Redeemer
My hope for this new day and for each new day to come
He gave me this new song to sing
One I share with you today
Carve Out Time 