Genesis 37&38; Psalm 7; Luke 15; 2 Peter 1

After my 'rant' it was a good day of connecting w/people and asking them questions that hopefully, prayerfully end up w/them seeking You more heartily.....I know those questions in the past while perhaps ticking me off initially, ended up taking me right where You wanted.
This Daniel Fast is something...the energy I /we feel already is surprising and then immediately the disappointment at how easily I forget how eating healthier does that...is it all about the eating?
To be prayerful in the process, I forget quickly the why's of doing it. Distracted yesterday w/Haiti instead of praying.......the voices in my head telling me to DO something w/o being specific, trusting that in prayer the specifics will come from every interaction leading me to doing whatever it is You desire.....

2 Peter 1: 3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
10 Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, 11 and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

You're doing it BUT I am responsible to make every effort.......if it weren't for THIS time, here in Your Word I wouldn't...
ineffective and unproductive...fears, labels I have worn....
sometimes I long for the rich welcome, rather than living out a calling You have placed on my life to help w/lost sheep....I ain't no shepherd but a long time ago I watched a Disney special about sheep dogs and danged if I didn't feel a call to be that. Had to see myself first as the sheep and I did, I was,I am .... the sheep dog works only for his master...singlemindedly looking to please him by finding and returning the sheep....maybe that's truly what I am, looking always for those who are of His flock but wandering... and...what if one of those lost sheep DOES in being found again, in getting back to You to Your word DOES something for Haiti or SA or.....Like I said yesterday it's addicting watching people come to KNOW YOU....and aren't we all born w/that knowing but distracted to find things other than our Shepherd to fill us, guide us? The one thing about the sheep dog, his devotion to his duty, his master.....alot of comfort in the Psalm today....alot of challenge in all the readings.