Dear Ones,
Hope you wake up with anticipation of what God has for you today. Question for today: Have you experienced the Lord giving you just the right verse of scripture when you needed it most? 
Today I plan to go downstairs for coffee and seems like Tuesdays are the day for Choc covered raspberries too! 
Devotions from Judy’s heart
   Do we believe the Lord has a special word for us every day if we take time to be still and listen? Just like we physically need to feed our bodies, our souls need to be fed and nourished as well. In fact, every day we may find we can have an expectancy for what the Lord may feed us, even before we get out of bed.  It could be something we have never tasted before and may be a new nugget for us to meditate on!
   It makes me think of our friend who lives just down the hall from us who has put a candy dish outside of her door. She herself loves candy and seems to fill her dish each day so anyone walking down the hall can also pick something out to eat. She knows I love Snicker bars so I often see them on the top or peanut butter bars that are so tempting, There are also M&M’s, chocolates, Kits, and even Mound bars that Al loves. She offers them to us freely and all we have to do is reach in and take one and enjoy it as we go on our way. Sometimes after Al and I have had a big meal and would like to top it off with a little sweet, we pass by her door and take a treat. We thank her when we see her and we also tell others that there are treats on second floor.
   When we go to God’s Word, we can have anticipation that He will feed us just what we need at the time. Jeremiah writes in Lamentations 3 about how he is bowed down by all the problems he has to deal with, but suddenly he recalls God’s mercy and compassion and faithfulness. When he does this, he is brought out of his depression and says, “But this I recall and therefore I have hope and expectation:  It is because of the Lord’s mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His (tender) compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness. …Therefore will I hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him.”
   Every day God has something for us, a word that we can carry through our day. We need to listen to what He has to give us and take it to heart and then thank Him. Let us not pass by the basket of His sweet words but let them give us hope and expectation of good things He has for us.
   Challenge for today: Spend some time in quiet and read the Word until you find the morsel God has for you this day.
Blessings on your day and prayers and love, Judy