sweet sweet may all sweet things

oh GOD.
God God God.
my soul glorifies you for your delightful grace and abundant love for me. your blessings are so great, and your mind knows all things.
your heart presses my heart
your spirit fills up my house.

caitlin is so precious to you. so incredibly inside your mind.
thank you for the gift you have given me in her friendship. for this lovely technology you have provided for us to communicate in this three way conversation.
i know you love caitlin even more than i do (that's gotta be painful) so i trust that you have her in the folds of your robe. give her peace peace peace....
give her JOY JOY JOY!!!! give her p a t i e n c e. . .
and most of all, touch her with your glorious love today as she's packing Lay's products in cardboard boxes. let her be able to be free in her soul to please you in this act of worship. that with every bag of chips she touches, it would bring her that much nearer to your face and that much closer to your people in AFRICA!!
lord lord lord
she's gonig to AFRICA.
she's going to use her talents to make you GREAT in AFRICA.
she's going to see you move in ways she's never experienced before in AFRICA.
and you're going to grip her there.
i know it lord.


Lord, have mercy on caitlin and chase's relationship.
Lord, have mercy on caitlin and chase's relationship.
Lord, have mercy on caitlin and cahse's relationship.
you are there with them and you will lead them to a bright and glorious future together. be ever speaking into that.


hold her hand in her anxiety. get her ready for each and every episode. help her to keep up that attitude of gracious acceptance.
And, if it is your will, completely remove that darkness from her life. Lord, have mercy.


i pray in jesus' name that she would feel
your heart pressing her heart,
your spirit filling up her home

all blessing to your Name,
AMEN.

Gracious One,

with all the abundance i can muster, i thank you for my friend stephanie plant. i thank you for her love, her affirmation and her sincerity. most of all, i thank you for her restless and alive spirit that so often brings me out of my sad little world of anxiety, fear, and general self-centeredness. i am blessed; and for reasons i don't own...

you are a faithful God, so i'm praying with faith that you will see to all the things on steph's heart.

first, i pray for success on walkabout...though not success in the sense that it will be easy and painless. but success that it will be full of growth and stretching and hopefully not too much self-pity. giver her peace and get her prepared!

second, i pray for steph's future. i believe that you have set her way in gold, father. i can't doubt that there are big plans for her life, and i pray that you would help her get there without too much trouble from her concerned father, or worries about finances. you are a provider. we choose to trust you in that. please guide steph in your perfect timing and give her the patience the capacity for life that she needs to sink her teeth into whatever she's doing.

thank you so much for her family and the support it brings. please protect them. please make them rich in wisdom and love, and keep them forever close-knit. thank you for their endeavors to honor you, and i pray that as her mom opens up this ridiculously cool Curves in Morocco that you would help her to reach so many women with love and acceptance as they improve their health in your name! what a wonderful endeavor! thanks, Lord.

you are great. help us get closer to you and be more in love with you.

in jesus' name,
amen (so be it)