---"You Are My Hiding Place and My Shield"

--As I stood in rural Uganda watching a rig I had contracted to drill a well for several hundred impoverished villagers, an elderly man approached me. He grasped my hands and in broken English said, "If you could open my heart and view inside, you would see happiness on top of happiness on top of happiness for this water God has provided."

Those words gave me insight into the overflow of this dear man's heart= gratitude, humility, meekness, and reverence for the Lord were evident. "The mouth speaks what the heart is full of," Jesus said. "A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart" (Luke 6:45).

If our hearts are full of bitterness or hatred, broken relationships and isolation will follow. If our hearts are full of love, compassion, and gratitude, we'll tend to have healthy, edifying relationships.

--"You are my hiding place and my shield:
I wait for Your word." --(Psalm 119:114)--
---ODB/RB
--"My Hope Is In You" / Aaron Shust / <https://youtu.be/K_vhY72ITRo>
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