This is the week. Yes. This is the week I would pound out so so so many words to inspire and uplift and point to the goodness of God. We are back to our routine. Though we are in a new town, starting a new school with my son, in a new home (starting to actually feel like home!), the routine is the same and it feels glorious.

I sit here in my new little art and writing room in an old chair with an old blanket and old laptop and

I’ve got nothin’.

So instead of trying to put forth something for the sake of just blogging I thought I would share a prayer I’ve had all summer. For those of us who need inspiration. For those of us who feel there is nothing new. For those of us who know they need to just move forward into something though they don’t know what that some thing is. Will you find a quiet space, sit with your hands open and utter these words with me?

Lord, we sit with open hands asking (maybe even begging) for that which can only come from You. We need refreshment and revival and courage and newness. Your Word says there is nothing new under the sun. So God, because You spoke everything under the sun into existence, we ask for an outpouring of inspiration. Lord, we want our lives to count. To mean something. So with open hands, we pray for inspiration to create, to work, to mother, to relate, to comfort, to encourage. Lord, do Your thing in us and through us. With open hands we welcome Your Spirit to move because we know that any movement from You is more fruitful than anything we can conjure up ourselves. We will give You all the glory, Jesus! Amen!

Nothing fancy. But there is something to be said for knowing that you aren’t alone in the feeling of “nothin’.” Let’s link arms together with palms open ready to receive from our ever good, merciful, loving God. Go forth today in confidence that He is doing things in you and through you and YOU matter to HIM.

Come back Friday! I’m bringing back THE LIST!