Dear Ones,
It looks to be a beautiful sunny day again and the birds are tweeting in the tree outside my window. I have a new Mexican dish made and Ann may stop in later today. We enjoyed time yesterday with friends we have known from long ago and fun to catch up. 
Devotions from Judy’s heart
  I wonder how many of our prayers are telling God what we think He should do, maybe even what we feel we are entitled for him to do, rather than trusting Him for His perfect will. It is fine to ask God for things as He tells us: “Ask and it shall be given you.” or “You have not because you ask not.” But the bottom line really is, what is His will! We can pray and ask God what our heart desires, but then leave it up to Him, even when He doesn’t answer the way we would like. Most likely if we could write our own life story, it would not contain hard experiences or suffering and pain. But it is not up to us to write the script but only to cooperate and live out His script for our lives.
   I so strongly desire that a friend of ours will recover from her illness and we pray much for her. God has used her in so many ways to help others, pray for them, and lead them into the kingdom, but I don’t know His will…I simply pray and trust her into God’s hands. More than anything I would love to see her totally healed but I hold her up before the Lord and ask for His will and then trust. One thing we know is that God is faithful, and we wait to see His will carried out.
   Our thoughts don’t always line up with God’s thoughts, because we would probably opt for the easy way, not the way of the cross. God’s story is bigger and draws us closer to Him. Sometimes we won’t see the good that God is doing in us until heaven. Maybe we all have to admit that our desire for our life to be comfortable and go well is often greater than our longing to know God intimately. But the Lord wants us to join our heart to Him in trust, and may we respond to the invitation given in Song of Solomon 2:13, “Arise, my love, my beautiful companion, and run with me to the higher place. For now is the time to arise and come away with me.”
Challenge for today: Choose the Lord and go His way, no matter what!
Blessings on your day and prayers and love, Judy