Dear Lord,
You created this world, and all that is in it. You gave it to us as a gift. We look upon it with all of it's wonders and we exercise all of our senses as we fall in love with it.
You created the flowers, and the grass, and the thorns on the rose bush. You created the bear, the snake, the alligator, and the puppy dog and the kitten. You created all that was available to make the car and the truck, the airplane and the boat. You gave us all the intelligence we needed to fix broken arms, pneumonia, appendicitis, cuts, scrapes, and in some cases, even cancer.
As we go through the life you have given us, we learn that in order to enjoy all of the parts of Your creation that intrigue us, we are required, at times, to make sacrifices, in order to provide what best keeps your creation alive and beautiful. We take shorter showers, longer baths in order to conserve water. We turn out the lights in order to save on electricity. We give our old clothes to the homeless to help the less fortunate and not waste what is still usable.
And, we let little dogs go to homes that will love them so we can afford to have a place to live that allows us to save enough so that in the future, we can have a home that little doggies will never have to leave.
Our hearts break when we choose to send our children off to live with someone who can provide a loving home, complete with nintendos, football, basketball, music and siblings and pets, rather than try to keep them in a place where the next step is uncertain, and homelessness and hunger and doing without, or staying with strangers are eminent if they stay.
Doing the right thing in order to preserve the gifts that You have given us is so hard, because making sacrifices was never meant to be easy...hence the term "sacrifice".
So, as we make these sacrifices in our lives, Lord, in order to take advantage of the doors that You are opening for us, please be the Great Physician who mends our broken hearts.
I, personally, would sacrifice the whole world if it meant never losing my faith that You can fulfill the void that leaves. Take the whole world, just give me Jesus.
I love You, Lord. My heart is broken. I need You now.
In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
