Hello, March!

image by sunnygirlwi:  Megan & Kime, two leaders during quiet time at a leadership retreat in January

It has been awhile.  Months, I know.  Maybe you can relate, but I've been in a bit of a fog.  Caught a cold Christmas Day - which turned into bronchitis.  And then became this sinus thing that just won't go away - sleep has been a challenge, I've then been in a fog and sleepwalked through my days at work and nights at church doing youth ministry.   Just haven't been 100%.

I'm on a 10 day break from youth ministry, just to have some time to recover physically and emotionally and I have to say spiritually as well.  I chose a Psalm to contemplate during this break time and it may well be a new life Scripture. (I put some verses in bold for personal emphasis.)

Psalm 16

 ¹ Keep me safe, O God, 

       for in you I take refuge.

 ² I said to the LORD, "You are my Lord; 
       apart from you I have no good thing."

 ³ As for the saints who are in the land, 
       they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight*. ^[b]

 ⁴ The sorrows of those will increase 
       who run after other gods. 
       I will not pour out their libations of blood 
       or take up their names on my lips.

 ⁵ LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; 
       you have made my lot secure.

 ⁶ The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; 
       surely I have a delightful inheritance.

 ⁷ I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; 
       even at night my heart instructs me.

 ⁸ I have set the LORD always before me. 
       Because he is at my right hand, 
       I will not be shaken.

 ⁹ Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; 
       my body also will rest secure,

 ¹⁰ because you will not abandon me to the grave, 
       nor will you let your Holy One see decay.

 ¹¹ You have made known to me the path of life; 
       you will fill me with joy in your presence, 
       with eternal pleasures at your right hand.