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Pray for me. I'm discouraged with difficulties: we are in a process of replacing obsolete computers but the process is slowed cause we need David's help and he has a job and a family. And the learning curve with fancy new systems is difficult for us. And many things I'd do are dependent on computers. (I'm typing this letter to you on my phoney boy) like preparing photos for painting jobs and paying bills online. And though the parts came, we've never replaced the kitchen faucet, and now the leaking underneath has swelled out the end of the kitchen cupboards (facing the stereo system bakers rack) and the fake wood veneer is curling off from the bottom. And mostly, though I want to order my days for meditation and writing and reading and re-ordering and painting, the duo team of my own lethargic mind and my willingness/abiding desire to serve the needs of others has made me forget my purpose. At least I got all my travel laundry done and the accounting with all the exchange rates included completed and reconciled. And it's a bright sunny day and I woke to birds and my husband's arm around me and Max McLean reading Psalm 71 to us. 

14 But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more. 15 My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge. 16 With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone. 17 O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. 18 So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. 19 Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you? 20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. 

Pray that God will give me a focus of His righteous salvation that transcends my discernment of our wicked generations. Pray that He will bless us with the patient peace that transcends the mechanics of our lives. Pray that today and every day we will believe that we have lived coram Deo. 

Thanks.