Dear God,

It’s me Rae.  First, thank you.  Thank you for everything.  You are truly using all of my past experiences and present issues to form something amazing.  I am thankful.  You really can take any situation and any circumstance and any one and create something and someone really amazing out of absolute foolishness. Who else can do that?

I am so thankful to You for all You are and for all You provide.

Today was a Red Letter Day.  One of those days You provide to me where You show me Your power and how You move.  All good things come from You.

You hook me up when I least expect it.

You have provided unfathomable love in my life.  It leaves me speechless.

You have allowed new creativity and love to flow from unexpected sources.

You have shown Yourself to me when I read and study.

You bless me in ways I would not have been able to see imaginable.

You support me.

You smite my enemies (this makes me giggle).

You protect me in ways my human mind cannot wrap itself around.

You come and get me when I am in trouble.

You’ve given me an amazing set of family and friends.

You’ve kept my health.

I am sure you have stopped time for me or slowed it a few days – hoping I would catch up to Your plan.

You have shown patience and grace with me… a daughter. An heir.  But yet the kindness and patience blows my mind and makes me skip.

You’ve blessed me and kept me.

You are blessing my family and friends like wild-fire.

You have overseen my progress, my growth.

(does Bro. Franklin Owino-style praise break) – God Bless this man for this dancing….

Thank you for giving me a new joie de vivre.  A renewed sense of faith.  A renewed sense of love.  All of this amidst the mayhem and foolishness.

You’re allowing my life to be a testimony.  You’re allowing for my story to be of help.  You’re allowing me to be of service and I am ever grateful.  I am beginning to see how all of the pieces of my life fit together – and I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

And really, You just do some special things for me – things I can’t ever really even reveal to other people because well, sometimes they just don’t, won’t or can’t get it.  I want to – I know others even want to mention Your goodness and can’t because of the haters.  That’s fine – there are some things only You and I are supposed to know about.

My list is endless, this is only a beginning.

So thank you for being You.

As you know, I am really working to get myself together and do the right thing.  For a change,  I don’t feel lost and that’s a huge blessing.   This is the first year I’ve felt on track. Thank you so much for Your patience, Your love and Your direction.  Thank you for Your still, small voice that resonates within every fiber of my being.  Thank you for those whispers that help others, for the voice of this blog, for the voice that saves me and directs me.

So thank you.  Thank you for the love in my life.  Thank you for the divine breakthroughs You’ve brought me today.

Thank you for where you’ve brought me from, thank you for this journey and the road You’ve placed me on.  And thank You for walking with me.  You – the God of the Universe.  Jehovah Jireh – walking with me?!  Thank you!

I will go to sleep tonight, anxious to meet You in my dreams, giddy from all the things You’re working at within me and within my life.

(does Bro. Franklin Owino-style praise break)

Just thank you.

I am forever Yours.

Love Your Daughter,

Rae