Wholeness of You

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Day 2 - February 15, 2024

Wholeness of You

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” Psalm 73:26

I was helping friends with some household chores that required more than one set of hands.  As I departed, I accidentally left my journal on the top of my car and drove off.  When I say journal, I am describing my book that I fill with the commitments of life, the reminders of appointments, the love notes and sweet scribbles, the receipts and post-its of what must be followed up on, and the rag-tag-bits of no longer important but still tucked in, even junk mail yet to be tossed.  

That book of things--precious, important, reminders, junk, and clutter—it sat top my car as I got in and drove away.  I drove home without a thought to it and its contents, so varied.  

Arriving home, I reached for it in the passenger seat.  Then, looked for it in the back, on the floor.  I felt the drop of dread as realization hit me.  I must have left the book on top of the car!  I called my friends to see if by chance it was there in the house or maybe just in the driveway.  It was nowhere to be found.  

Out into the night we went, and before I could tell them no, my friends were there, traipsing around in the dark seeking the book and its lost papers.   We discovered the book had made it on top of my car for about a mile and then – I must have stopped at a stoplight and restarted with a jolt—it was spread across the intersection and the lawns nearby.  Bit by bit it was returned, the spine of the book mangled, some pages missing— but mostly, it was there. 

While we might forget what is in plain sight, God is present and will bring us home—all our scattered bits, become whole in Christ. 
 

PRAYER
Dear Lord, help us to ask for your help, and to accept the help you send our way.  Help us to be humble when our torn and broken selves stumble.  May we look to You and find our way home in the wholeness of Your Son.  Amen. 

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