manna

Worry.  Anxiety.  Angst.  Fear.

Choking. Strangling. Debilitating.

God has not intended me to live this way.  Worrying about the future.  Projecting all the things that could happen or not.  Playing out scenes on the screen of my mind. 

Instead He invites me to trust.  I don't know what tomorrow will bring.  But I know that today the Lord gives me manna.  'What is it?" the Israelites asked.  Exactly!  What is it?  Every day it is something different, but it is exactly what the my Heavenly Father intended for that day.  Just that day.  And tomorrow I will have to trust Him again.  And again He will provide.

Manna the Lord has provided me with lately:

Friendships.  Friends who listen.  Friends who love.  Friends who are present.  Friends who pray.   

Family.  Families from school who invite me into their homes and invite me to ride with them to weddings.  Families who let me sit with them at Cross Country dinners so I don't have to sit alone. 

Students.  Students who make me laugh.  Students who say kind things.  

Laughter.  Much laughter. 

Psalm 16
⁵ LORD, you alone are my portion and my cup;
   you make my lot secure.
⁶ The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
   surely I have a delightful inheritance.  

Matthew 7
⁷ “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.    ⁹ “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? ¹¹ If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 

Exodus 16
 ⁴ Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day.