NOON (a)

Thank you for your wisdom, understanding, and patience.

Thank you for the joy and humor of your angels.

Most of all, thank you for Your Love and the Love we have for each other.

Thank you for allowing us to have our trials, our tests, and our

disappointments, failures, frustrations—wilderness times.

Thank you for sending Jesus to show us how to cope with THEM.

Thank you Jesus for COMING—giving us the Means of Grace:

Your gift of Faith/our Holy Fear; Joyful Gratefulness; Joyful Attitude of Gratitude;

Trust; Yielded and Still Humble Obedience;

Patience/Perseverance—Love waiting on You Lord, with Mercy, Singing, and

Laughter.

The Hope of Glory:

Truth; Holy Hope;

Atonement, Forgiveness, Unity;

Concord; Kind and Gentle Steadfastness.

Most of all, thank you for giving us Yourself—a perfect Father God:

Christmas—love, life, time;

Your precious son Jesus Christ:

Easter—Resurrection, Your grace in action, our Salvation.

Your powerful Holy Spirit:

Pentecost—Your Holy Spirit in Action, unity with You Lord, ourselves, with all of

Us, with the joyful peace that passes all understanding in our hearts everyday.

Thank you for making us your golden sunshine and your sparkling blue water.

Thank you for making us your stained glass window for your light of love to shine through us in warm loving colors.

Thank you for making us your giant watering can of love—your living water. Thank you Holy Spirit for being in us, tuning our nozzle, and helping us to tune our nozzle just perfectly, from a very gentle precious spray of love—when we need that—to a wide open exuberant, enthusiastic spray—when we need that--and everything in between. Thank you for helping us to never under water us or wash us away from you, Jesus.

Thank you for helping us know everything in the Universe that you have put in us that is for us to know.

Thank you giving us the willingness and the grace to think it, say it, do it, and be it at all places, at all times and in all ways—just like you do Jesus—and we can see you, hear you, know you, and feel you Jesus in us and have a personal, loving, intimate relationship with you and a healed and strengthened body SO we can feed your lambs and feed your sheep with you, for you, and to you.

Thank you for our healed inside self that makes us see ourselves through your eyes—the eyes of love and compassion. Therefore, we see ourselves as perfect in your eyes because you see Jesus in us. What he did. What he does. And what he will do for us. Therefore, we are able to see Jesus in all of us—including ourselves. We see are able to see only the goodness, the love, the beauty, the joy, the humor—the part of all of us that is You and we are able to love you because we WANT to. We are able to love all of us because we WANT to and not because we HAVE to. Therefore, we are the best role models—the best examples—of your sunbeams of peace, love, and joy that we can be with you and for you, to us all!!

Thank you Holy Spirit for being in us and giving us the communication skills to communicate from our healed inside self—the part of us that is you with the part of all of us that is You.

NOON (c)

We lovingly release all of us who have helped us to cause us pain. Thank you for allowing us to HAVE this pain:

First for ourselves—to plant the flag of humility in our arrogant hearts.

To nourish and build our spiritual muscles—your gift of faith.

To prune the fruit trees of our spirit—Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control—for more and better Fruit.

AND to clean off the crud of our heart and soul that we’ve accumulated with our disobedient thoughts, words, and deeds and we are able to relate to you directly in your holiness. And now for you and for others in redemptive suffering.

I overcome with the blood of Christ, the word of my testimony, and giving up my life—my self-will—to You.

We lovingly allow us to be the way we are and the way we are not and where we are and where we are not. Thank you for the loving, joyful, cheerful, humorous energy to be able to laugh at what we say and don't say, do and don't do, and not let it come into us as pain, but love laugh and pray it off.

Thank you for our healed inside self that makes us see ourselves through your eyes—the eyes of love and compassion—therefore, we see us as we really are—your precious child. We’re able to love us into BEING your precious child in our conscious mind, which is our Christ conscious awareness.