Coincidence?

I just read this from Seize the Day with Deitrich Bonhoffer :
...To lose ourselves in the busyness of much doing is simply to deny our own need to be replenished. To be more discerning, to prioritize, and to realize the limits of what we can do will, in fact, help us to be more effective...Busyness does not guarantee productivity and effectiveness.
Coincidence? I think not. After what I last posted, I'm sure this was meant for me.

I was actually thinking about something I had read last week in this devotional book about anxiety and prayer. "From the moment we awake until we fall asleep, we must commend other people wholly and unreservedly to God and leave them in his hands, transforming our anxiety for them into prayers on their behalf." --Letters and Papers from Prison .
He writes about all the things we worry about on behalf of our children, family and friends. There are so many things that concern us; important things that can have an effect on their entire lives and little daily things. He says that our anxious thoughts only intensify our worry. "In seeking to transform anxiety into prayer, it is not simply a matter of talking to God instead of talking to ourselves, for that may simply result in talking anxiously to God. Rather we are challenged to recognize the limitations of our worrying and the possibilities of what trusting prayer can do."

I read this just today.
Numbers 23:19 NLT
God is not a man, so he does not lie.
He is not human, so he does not change his mind.
Has he ever spoken and failed to act?
Has he ever promised and not carried it through?l
The obvious answer to these questions is NO! God is faithful even when we aren't. He is doing some incredible things in our family these days, much of it through in and through our children. These are the lyrics to a song by a group called 1000 Generations that I have found my
self listening to a lot.

Fail Us Not

Failure doesn’t phase You, worry doesn’t win,
Loss doesn’t leave You afraid to start again,
Our sin doesn’t shock You,
Our shame doesn’t shame You at all

Mistakes do not move You, terror doesn’t tame,
Death doesn’t doom You to life in the grave,
Our suffering doesn’t scare You,
Our secrets won’t surprise You at all

There is nothing above You,
There is nothing beyond You,
There is nothing that You can’t do…
There is no one beside You,
There is no one that’s like You,
There is nothing that You can’t do…

Whatever will come, we’ll rise above,
You fail us not, You fail us not,
No matter the war, our hope is secure,
You fail us not, You fail us not,
You fail us not…

Hatred doesn’t hide You, evil doesn’t ail,
Despair can’t disguise You and tell You that You’ve failed,
Our doubt doesn’t daunt You,
Our darkness won’t defeat You at all

You’re bigger than the battle,
You are bigger than the battle
You are bigger than the battle has ever been

You can hear this and more at their official website http://1000generations.com

I mentioned a song by Josh Wilson in an earlier post. I am blessed to have my kids to share all kinds of music with me, some I would probably never know about. If you like guitar, Josh has and awesome recording of Amazing Grace that you can hear on YouTube and he has an official website with Sparrow Records.