Last night was a decent rain storm, dark clouds but not too bad to be feared, I’ve seen those dark clouds, before in retrospect, and wow the most VIVID rainbow, full and doubled. WOW!!! Oh how BRIGHT especially against the dark cloud moving away… LIGHT overcame that dark, BRILLIANTLY and VIVIDLY noticed. 

In our lives too… I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.

How many times have we been in small anguish of annoyances and those BIG anguishes that squished us to sadness? On the flipside, how many times we actually don’t even know that we have been the verge of disaster (in human sense) but rescued? How many mini praises do we have – like thankful for another day… Let us be BRILLIANTLY thankful. 

Often we have to get exhausted to appreciate being rested.  We have to be broken to appreciate being repaired. We have to have something as real as a Monday to appreciate the Friday. We have to have enough of a memory to know we got from there to here… and then know Whom to praise in all, PRAISE OUR GOD WHO OUR SUSTAINER. OUR UN-SQUISHER.

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Anguish will squish us.

The Lord’s Love will kiss us.

Rainbows will distract us. GOOD.

God will remember us.

Forgiveness will un-squish us.

The cup of salvation does save us.

The Lord has blessed us.

No one can praise enough. 

Let’s PRAISE the One to Whom all praises are due. (I know I need to!)

Amen

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Psalm 116

I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.

Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.

The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of the grave came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow. Then I called on the name of the Lord: “Lord, save me!”

The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

The Lord protects the unwary; when I was brought low, he saved me.

Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you. For you, Lord, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears,.my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

I trusted in the Lord when I said: “I am greatly afflicted”; in my alarm I said, “Everyone is a liar.”

What shall I return to the Lord for all his goodness to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants. Truly I am your servant, Lord; I serve you just as my mother did; you have freed me from my chains.

I will sacrifice a thank offering to you and call on the name of the Lord. I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the house of the Lord – in your midst, Jerusalem.

Praise the Lord.