Prayer for the Daughter I Always Wanted (TM) - New Year, New Choices

Three photos in today's post by Donna Turpin

Stay tuned, we are working on a new project. Stories of hope and resilience, the battle to survive confusion, people pleasing, and devastating repercussions, going from empty to overflowing with the mercy of Jesus. Learning to Prepare Love Praise (R) . 

Have you been on a journey that seems bleak? 
Are there curves and hills that seem endless?
Perhaps right now you only see a blip of light on the horizon?

Maybe you feel like the path is like a conveyor belt you can't get off. 

You may be weary this New Year's Eve as you face weeks of clutter and chaos following shredded gift wrap, and late-night movie with pizza binges with friends and family. Maybe you're road weary as you do the sixth load of laundry preparing to return to work. ​

Whatever you are experiencing, I pray today you will know that you know Ephesians 3:20-21 is true. God can do more than we could ever dream, carrying us from empty to overflowing (TM), into new beginnings if we let Him. 

This is my prayer for you, my dear reader. Lord, please use what You have entrusted to me to help this woman face her life with more courage and hope. 

Please help her understand the power of learning to trust in You, Father God, when we can only see the next step, or half a mile to the bend in the road.  And the power of owning choices, both good and bad. 

Open her heart to realize learning is not a straight line. It took some hard hits before I learned true hope exists. Zigzags and re-starts, stumbles and falls, before I got back up to try again.​

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It took grit and determination to understand and overcome

• One more valley.
• Decision after decision
• Struggling to learn who and what to trust over the horizon.  

I was that woman. Lacking understanding that for every barren, gray sky and roadway there is also an opposite. Beautiful endings to our day may also be possible. I did not need to remain a victim. 

These brilliant sunsets followed hard rain. I could see color. No filter was applied. Yet the photographs on my phone were more vibrant than I could see with my naked eye. That's true for a lot of opportunities in my life, too. Maybe yours as well. 

I pray we will open our hearts to the fullness the Lord has for us this year. Letting Jesus open doors to opportunity, allowing the Master Painter of the universe to apply His pallette to our new beginnings with FLOWINGS (TM) to help us be our best.

• Not perfect.
• Not all alike.
• Each skyline even in these three pictures is different.
• The clouds, and we, are at different stages. 

Help my reader please as she makes choices, for our decisions determine our path, just as one foot in front of the other eventually delivers us to a destination.  ​

Lord bless this dear reader, she is Your daughter first, The daughter I always wanted. (TM)
Give her the desires of her heart as she draws near, for You have promised if we choose You, You will come near us. Help her intentionally Prepare Love Praise (R) into 2026. knowing You, Jesus, have the answers for everything we cannot comprehend, and our worship invites Your Presence. 

Echo for her please the excitement in my voice for I truly believe we are on the verge of the greatest signs, wonders, and miracles the world has ever known. A great awakening -- an exciting time. 

In Jesus's Name. 

With much love, 
​Donna