Bless The Lord, O My Soul

"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits." (1)

I returned to Paradise to attend the funeral of the wife of a very dear friend. Traveling up the Sacramento valley on Highway 99 and 70, I became overwhelmed by the memories and the blessings the Lord has shared with me since He first led me and my family to Paradise many years ago to take up the duties of managing a medical institution. What a blessing the Lord has been to my family and me over those years.

He has wonderfully fulfilled the needs of our family through good times and bad. I praise Him for His love, His guidance, His patience, and His continual Presence even through my rebellion and prodigal ways. His grace and His ways have captured my heart. He has been and remains my strength and my confidence, the almighty, and yet tender and loving Father who is so sensitive to our needs. He tenderly loves and leads us through good times and bad, through faithfulness and rebellion and through the changes of life. We may always safely trust Him and know that He is, that He is God, that He is the Spirit that leads us in paths of doing what is right, if we are willing, and teaches us what is true. He shares with us the oracles of the fathers and His bright vision for our future.

He is the Spirit that is present with us and shares with us all the most intimate experiences of life. He loves us with an everlasting love and He will share that love with us throughout eternity. He shares with us a wonderful life if we let Him, and I hope that is your experience also. With Him, life will continue to get better through all eternity.

"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with livingkindness and tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's..." (2)

May God wonderfully bless you this day.

1. Psalm 103:2.
2. Psalm 103:2-5.