DAILY GRATITUDE DEVOTIONAL — Day 27: Grateful for Rest

Day 27: Grateful for Rest

Scripture: Romans 15:13 — May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in [Holy Love].
Meditation: Some people say hope is not a plan. Yet from hope springs the seeds of resilience and empowerment. Hope includes the capacity to stand in your current reality, name and face the circumstances in which you find yourself, then begin to assess whatever opportunities you may have to change or respond to them in ways that alter the situation long-term. When you begin where you are, and allow yourself the grace to create change step by step, incrementally, over time, you can perhaps breathe and be present to the here and now.
Spiritual Disciplibe: Write down three things you want to change in simple ways. Spend time in prayer, bringing these hopes into the presence of a God who has created you to be resilient, too.

SONGS:

Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=songs+of+hope#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:48e51b7c.87f4a7d3,vid:VcjzHMhBtf0,st:0
Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles: https://youtu.be/KQetemT1sWc?si=H_2gNidBLpE4UTCi

Blessing of Rest
— Jan Richardson

Curl this blessing
beneath your head
for a pillow.
Wrap it about yourself
for a blanket.
Lay it across your eyes
and for this moment
cease thinking about
what comes next,
what you will do
when you rise.

Let this blessing
gather itself to you
like the stillness
that descends
between your heartbeats,
the silence that comes
so briefly
but with a constancy
on which
your life depends.

Settle yourself
into the quiet
this blessing brings,
the hand it lays
upon your brow,
the whispered word
it breathes into
your ear
telling you
all shall be well
all shall be well
and you can rest
now.

DAILY GRATITUDE DEVOTIONAL — Day 27: Grateful for Rest