Psalm 19:14

"May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer."

Inspirational illustration of Psalm 19:14 -- May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

"Keep me from sinning. Do not let anyone gain control over me. Then I will be blameless, and I will be free from any great offense. May the words from...."

David concludes Psalm 19 with a prayer that his interior and exterior worlds align with the character of God and bring the LORD pleasure! Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to align our internal feelings of love for God with our external daily lives that should be lived as our worship of God.

Why do some of these things stick in our heads for so long? Katha Winther reminds us of the weird and yet powerful staying power of many of our words and reminds us to use them to be a blessing to others.

Who helps you with what you think? We need to guard what we think in our minds and ask God to keep them pure.

When's the last time you turned yourself in? If we will honestly ask for God to change us and help us, he will step and do so because he knows our struggles and longs to give us mercy.

The year is still new, but the freshness feels a bit wilted with the ongoing pandemic and the political violence, but we can find hope and direction in God's promises! Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos and challenging us to re-align ourselves with God's purposes for us.

Have you been to a wildlife office preserve? A lady bug helps refocus us and link us back to the beauty of God's creation and our need to be still and experience more and do less.