November 12, 2021

I’ve been trying to make something happen that just hasn’t happened. Turning over every stone, making every connection I can make, asking every Tom, Dick, and Harry I happen upon, exerting my will and influence and (in my own mind) charm. I have been the importunate widow. (See Luke 18:1-8) Despite all of this effort (because of it?) all roads have heretofore dead-ended.

Can you relate? Here’s a bracing – and I think, comforting – verse. “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.” (Proverbs 19:21)

God’s desire always prevails. And, thankfully, He always desires what is best for us.

“Direct us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favor, and further us with thy continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally, by thy mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (For Guidance – BCP p. 832)