What do I ask of the Lord? Well, I ask for courage, direction, peace, health, joy, zeal, stability, deepening commitment. For myself, for my wife, for my children and grandchildren, for my parents and my aunt, for my sister and my niece, for my inlaws, and on and on.

So many things to desire, and yet . . . .

“One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the hosue of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple” (Psalm 27:4).

The panting hart — so thirsty that every other need and desire and wish and want and ambition and goal is secondary.

Water first.

Then the other things.

That’s how I want to be.