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Dust

Slowly, I've been working my way through Lysa Terkeurst book, It's Not Supposed to be This Way and would highly recommend reading it. I love the concept of dust that is discussed to describe our lives and how God is a Master Potter and works with dust -- works on us and our brokenness to make something new and better! Today I was reading my Bible and Moses' prayer in Psalm 90 was a very cool connection to most of what I have been reading. I wanted to share a short segment that I highlighted and my prayer that goes with it.

  3: You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”
12: So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
14: Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15: Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil.
16: Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.
17: Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!

My Prayer
We are called back to the dust. Our lives on Earth are temporary. So Lord, even with the struggling of our days, bring meaning, joy, and peace to our existence here until we are called to our end. Give us wisdom so that can experience a joyful and peaceful life and can have an expectation of more joy to come after we are called to dust. Amen.

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