Sunday report as fuel for your prayers.

 

Dear friends,

 

This is a Sunday report as fuel for your prayers.

 

Yesterday I ate well and on time.

 

This morning at 3:00 AM I felt focused like King David after eating.

I am being careful of my desires about what to pray for today.

 

I have much to be thankful for to Jesus and his Saints and for life and to be able to serve for the common good.

 

My apartment complex has filled up fast and most of the people on my floor have dogs. I ask myself if they are guard dogs or alarm systems or are loved as pets?

Since I do not have a guard dog or an alarm system, I am embarrassed to confess that I use dining room chairs and brooms which are place behind my doors in order to feel secure and sleep.

 

By God’s grace I am not afraid of death but I am afraid of not being able to defend myself from predators that would gain access before it is too late.

We have two big elevators that serve the apartment complex of seven floors all day and night. People do not know each other at all.

 

At this time, I need to warn you of passing judgment on my fears and me.

Let it be enough to say that becoming old is not fun but it is gloriously revealing of self and God and relationships. I Thank God that at least I no longer have the uncertainty and restlessness of youth that caused me to “Wander away from the God I love.”

 

As I just refresh myself in my early meditation, I am well aware that the enemy is ever on the watch to detect inconsistency in my conduct leaving me no option but to be holy.

 

More is expected from a man of God than from other men.

I will strive to give no occasion for blame.

Pray that my goodness be the only fault they can discover in me.

 

This was your Gerry with a “G,” just a man at best.

 

Gerry Gutiérrez.