Being an early riser I love the sunrise. The light of day is never anything but a blessing. It is the one reason I don’t care for daylight savings. I have to wait an extra hour in order to have the beauty of the sunrise. I go through the anticipation of this as winter begins. Then, I go through it again when daylight savings comes about. It is a little thing, but for me, its worthy of writing it. Now for the rest of the message—-.

Our quartet had a singing engagement yesterday late morning for an assisted living place. This afternoon we are doing another concert for an assisted living facility close to Boise. The one yesterday seemed to be loved by the folks attending but I didn’t feel good about it for my voice was a little raspy. As I was journaling this morning I asked God to help me be at my best for Him today. (I selfishly want to sound my best if I’m going to sing). Of course, as soon as I wrote this I heard my dad’s voice coming through with his message–“all you want is to feel better than anyone else, just go do your thing and forget we even exist.” This message was never true for me,but is is true that I want to sound good if I’m going to sing. God provided a much richer message as I heard His response to my request. His message, “Let me take care of this. Your role is to do your part trusting and believing I will do mine. I want the performance to glorify Me. The spirit of the singing is what glorifies Me most.”

Getting my eyes off of dad, off of me and onto Christ is just what I needed to hear and be reminded. How I love this Savior and Lord we have–Jesus Christ!