What has this year taught you? Patience! Endurance! Fortitude! Did you learn from your mistakes? Did you learn better ways to relate to life and the folks around you? Did you learn to value family and time together with friends more? Are you more generous, more caring, more compassionate? We profit most from life lessons when we respond in the ways Jesus taught us; in this way problems are followed by spiritual growth and Christlike formation.
Oh, Lord, our days cannot ultimately mature us if You are not our Teacher. We cannot learn what we need to learn unless You guide us through the events and circumstances of our lives. Teach us! Transform us! Oh, Teacher, we pray. Amen.
{From the NEW devotional book, “Sonlight for the Soul”, by H. Lamar Smith, this could be your devotional book for 2023. Available on Amazon.)
