I wrote a few entries last week but I never set them up to send. I was preoccupied with improving my state of being and kept waiting for them to show up. Finally, I realized I must not have dated them for sending. Oh well, this week I hope to spend Tuesday morning writing and posting to you!

I must really be getting better, because today I have the itch to write!! But alas, I have a visitor coming at 10 AM. I have Bob assisting me with a shower and Monday morning for writing is not to be.

Amy Carmichael wrote in The Edges of His Ways

“Dr. F. B. Meyer once told me that when he was young he was very irritable, and an old man told him that he had found relief from this very thing by looking up the moment he felt it coming, and saying, “Thy sweetness, Lord.” By telling this, that old man greatly helped Dr. Meyer, and he told it to tens of thousands.

“I pass it on to you because I have found it a certain and a quick way of escape. Take the opposite of your temptation and look up inwardly, naming that opposite: Untruth–Thy truth, Lord; Unkindness–Thy kindness, Lord; Impatience–Thy patience, Lord; Selfishness–Thy unselfishness, Lord; Roughness–Thy gentleness, Lord; Discourtesy–Thy courtesy, Lord; Resentment, inward heat, fuss–Thy sweetness, Lord, Thy calmness, Thy peacefulness.

“I think that no one who tries this very simple plan will ever give it up. (It takes it for granted, of course, that all is yielded–the “I” dethroned.) Will all to whom it is new please try it for a day, a week, a month, and test it.”

This is indeed a wonderful practice. When I want to be some place else besides in a chair, Your Presence, Lord. Yes, right here. Closer than my breath.