Monday Meditations: What I Need

Starting today I'm adding a weekly post called 'Monday Meditations'. They are updated versions of the weekly inspirational newspaper column called 'The Wonderfully Made Woman' which I wrote for three years during the nineties when I lived  in Tulsa OK .  Just a little something to start off your week. I hope you enjoy them

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I have a little wall plaque titled "What I Need" which I bought from a Christian Bookstore over thirty years. It hangs by my bedroom mirror where I can see it every morning. It is a picture of a young woman walking barefoot on a lonely stretch of beach with the following sentiment superimposed over it. It's a sweet little prayer and it never fails to bless me when I read it. I hope it does the same for you.

I need a Strength 

to keep me true

and straight 

in whatever I do.

I need a Power

to keep me strong

when I am tempted 

to do wrong.

I need a Grace 

to keep me pure

when passion 

tries it's deadly lure.

I need a Love

to keep me sweet

when hardness

and mistrust I meet.

I need an Arm 

to be my stay

when dark with trouble

grows the day.

Nothing on earth

can all this afford

but all is found in You

Jesus Christ, My Lord.

                                                     - Author Unknown