Remembering His promises:

My emotional processing via the blog-world is not terribly healthy. I realize this… But I think it’s my form of calling a girlfriend when I’m overwhelmed. I need to get it out, then I can exhale. So, I’m into His word currently and am reflecting on His promises- and thankfully that grounds me like nothing else! Enough being bummed about a possible tax credit. I need to remind myself of the FAITHFUL one...

Here goes:
Verse for today: 1 Peter 1:13 (New International Version)
Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Verse for the adoption: Isaiah 43 (New International Version)
1 But now, this is what the LORD says—
he who created you, O Jacob,
he who formed you, O Israel:
"Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.

2 When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze.

3 For I am the LORD, your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I give Egypt for your ransom,
Cush [a] and Seba in your stead.

4 Since you are precious and honored in my sight,
and because I love you,
I will give men in exchange for you,
and people in exchange for your life.

5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you;
I will bring your children from the east
and gather you from the west.

6 I will say to the north, 'Give them up!'
and to the south, 'Do not hold them back.'
Bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the ends of the earth-

7 everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made."

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Pass through, pass through the gates!
Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!
Remove the stones.


Raise a banner for the nations.
The LORD has made proclamation
to the ends of the earth:


"Say to the Daughter of Zion,
'See, your Savior comes!
See, his reward is with him,
and his recompense accompanies him.' "


They will be called the Holy People,
the Redeemed of the LORD;
and you will be called Sought After,
the City No Longer Deserted.

Isaiah 62:12-14