## 103:2
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> Don’t Forget All His Benefits
>> Praise the LORD, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,

Occasion: Remembering past help

Lord, take me back for a minute ---
to the place where I waited,
to the week I thought would break me,
to the morning You carried me through and I did not fall.

Bring to mind the help I have forgotten.
Not to live in the past,
but to trust You in the future.

I remember the fear more easily sometimes.
I remember how long the days felt,
how scared I was,
how little I knew about what would come next.
But trouble was not the whole story.

If I forget where You met me,
I would face this day as if I came here alone.
I would call Your rescue ``luck''
and Your mercy ``accident.''
I would mistake my survival for my own strength
and forget how often I had none left.

Set Your mercies in order before me.
Let them stand like markers by the road,
bright markers that say,
You helped me here.
And here.
And here.

And when today feels unlike anything before,
when I cannot yet see what Your help will look like,
keep me from believing that I have been abandoned.

You helped me then, Lord.
You will not be absent ---
ever.

Amen.