Worth More than Riches

Nothing quite says Happy New Year's Eve like a $3,000 car repair. It helps one to shift focus from the riches of the world...since they are slipping like oiled pigs through the fingers. Nothing helps one to realign priorities better than knowing the car could have died going 70 miles an hour down the freeway in the dark with one's precious daughter at the helm, rather than sputtering at 35 mph to its demise close to home, where it was able to creak into a safe parking lot. There is much to be thankful for this year. It is good to keep the focus on what God has done, rather than what might have been.

He gave me new mercy every morning.
His faithfulness never comes to an end.
His salvation is eternal and irrevocable.
He has engraved my name on His palms.
He promises His presence.
He is my light, and my strength, a strong tower, and refuge.

All that is worth WAY  more than $3,000.

Happy New Year's Eve!

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Isaiah 49: 1, 15-16
1 Listen to me, O coastlands,
    and give attention, you peoples from afar.
The Lord called me from the womb,
    from the body of my mother he named my name.
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child,
    that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
    yet I will not forget you.
¹⁶ Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;