Angels can fly

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.

G. K. Chesterton

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Dear Lord

It is another day

Here I am, in the place that I was born

Meeting people who have known me all of my life

Who have know my family

Who knew my parents

There is an odd weight to being here

Did I live up to community expectations?

Has my life honored my parents

My family

Am I the kind of man people expected me to be?

Am I the kind of man my parents would be proud of?

Am I the kind of man I want to be?

Am I the kind of man God wants me to be

No wonder I sometimes have “feet of clay” (Nebuchadnezzar and I, we are like “this”)

Oh, I have done OK

I am educated

I think I have done some good in this world

But oh those mistakes

Oh those moments of failure

Oh those hidden flaws

That I am all too aware of

But God, I am who I am

And all I can do

Each day

Is abide in you

And just be, in the moment

Be the best person I can be in that moment

I need lord the lightness of the angels

I need to travel light

Realizing that no one, even You

Takes me as seriously

As

I

take

myself

Lord this day, deliver me

From the weight of my own

expectations