Are we Open?

Do you ever waste a lot of time thinking about and being upset about the smallest things? Sometimes, I feel like I cannot express my true feelings and emotions, so I just keep them locked up inside. If you do that long enough, it will overwhelm every part of you and how can you be available to what God has for you each day if you are consumed with other junk? We have to dump all the junk out and be open and ready for what God has planned for us...Oh, and He has a plan...

Psalm 16 is a prayer of safekeeping, joy, faith and trust...

NIV Translation:

" ¹ Keep me safe, O God,

for in you I take refuge.

² I said to the LORD, "You are my Lord;

apart from you I have no good thing."

³ As for the saints who are in the land,

they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight.

⁴ The sorrows of those will increase

who run after other gods.

I will not pour out their libations of blood

or take up their names on my lips.

⁵ LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup;

you have made my lot secure.

⁶ The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;

surely I have a delightful inheritance.

⁷ I will praise the LORD, who counsels me;

even at night my heart instructs me.

⁸ I have set the LORD always before me.

Because he is at my right hand,

I will not be shaken.

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;

my body also will rest secure,

¹⁰ because you will not abandon me to the grave,

nor will you let your Holy One see decay.

¹¹ You have made known to me the path of life;

you will fill me with joy in your presence,

with eternal pleasures at your right hand."

Same passage from The Message Bible:

^-2 Keep me safe, O God, I've run for dear life to you.

I say to God, "Be my Lord!"

Without you, nothing makes sense.

³ And these God-chosen lives all around—

what splendid friends they make!

⁴ Don't just go shopping for a god.

Gods are not for sale.

I swear I'll never treat god-names

like brand-names.

^5-6 My choice is you, God, first and only.

And now I find I'm your choice!

You set me up with a house and yard.

And then you made me your heir!

^7-8 The wise counsel God gives when I'm awake

is confirmed by my sleeping heart.

Day and night I'll stick with God;

I've got a good thing going and I'm not letting go.

^9-10 I'm happy from the inside out,

and from the outside in, I'm firmly formed.

You canceled my ticket to hell—

that's not my destination!

¹¹ Now you've got my feet on the life path,

all radiant from the shining of your face.

Ever since you took my hand,

I'm on the right way.