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Oh Holy Spirit, I’m so grateful that you’ve got this whole thing figured out.  You didn’t wake up this morning with a whole lot of new surprises on your desk.  You’re not pulling your hair because of the housing market – neither are you a stew over which way the Dow is headed.

Long ago, you counted the very hairs on my head, and in eternity past, you engraved my name both in the palms of you hands and in your heart.  A sweet smile flutters across your face as you think of me.  I bring you much pleasure.  You have named me, Gentle Spring Rain.”  Just by being here, i fill you up and overflow you with the effervescence of a water fall. Each day you fine tune me toward new growth in our relationship.  I thank you for showing me how to praise you and thank you for sanding of life’s circumstances.

Many times I’ve found myself sitting in a heap of the gravel, grit and grime: after the sandstorm passes by.  But even from that heap, i still can call out on you, calling you Lord.  You are closer than the skin that covers my body, closer than the air I breathe in through my nostrils.

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