Dear Ones,
Hope you are enjoying a good weekend. I plan to make chili and do other food prep and clean the apartment. We are enjoying brisk walks each day and lots of fresh air!!
Devotions from Judy’s heart
We are all on the journey of our life and do we make the most of it or do we waste our moments in careless living. Hopefully we are we open to all that God has for us and follow the path He puts before us, rather than to go our own way that is blinded by the way of the world.

How can we live our own journey well? One thing we are told is to travel light. We don’t need to be weighed down with worldly things but seek the Lord first and let Him add to our lives as He sees best. “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you” (Matt. 633) We also need to live in the present moment and be aware of His grace to us and presence in our lives. It is good to go for walks in nature and commune with the Lord and to live in openness to hear His voice and listen to Him. We also need to remove things from our lives that take our attention and time so we can focus on Him and become more like Him. Changes may come quietly and unnoticed at first, but He is all the while working in us, so we don’t need to get impatient. We must always remember to read His Word and let it work on us and transform us. We can listen to it, sing it, read it, share it, but all the while letting it sink in and let our hearts be changed by it.

We are to be open to God’s grace and how He may be working in our lives, not necessarily like someone else’s life. We are to keep our eyes and ears and hearts and minds open to new things the Lord has for us. Ours is a journey of faith and we are to trust and walk with Him in faith.

Thomas Merton wrote in his notebook shortly before he died,

                                     “Our real journey in life is interior

                                      It is a matter of growth,

                                      deepening,

                                     and of an even greater surrender to the creative action

                                      of love and grace in our hearts.”

Let us journey well and surrender ourselves daily to the Lord as we travel light and seek His will in all things.

Challenge for today: Ask the Lord to enlarge your capacity for Him that you may journey well.
Blessings on your weekend and prayers and love, Judy