May 2013...My Roots

I pray that I will not be rooted

in barren ground:

That I will not seek strength

in human flesh;

That I will not walk in the counsel

of the wicked;

That I will not turn my heart

away from the Lord.

I pray that I will be planted

by streams of water:

That I will be blessed because

I trust in the Lord.

That my delight will be in the law

of the Lord,

On which I meditate

night and day.

I pray that in the year of drought,

I will show no distress:

For my roots will stretch out into

the streams of Living Water.

For the Lord will probe my mind

and test my heart,

And reward me according to the merit

of my ways and deeds.

Amen.

(By Doreen Hardie)

Psalm 1; Jeremiah 17: 5-10