Paul S. Waugh’s Daily Prayer – A Prayer of Gratitude, Repentance, and Walking with God in the Wilderness – 10th Jan, 2026

Greetings in Christ everyone,

Here’s today’s Daily Prayer:

Father, just when I think You can’t be more loving, giving, caring, forgiving—you know, forgiving—generous, compassionate, loving, all-knowing, Master of timing.

You know, Father, as You know, and I say this by way of thanks and repentance, that with contrition and with joy, I feel my ear being pulled in one direction towards You. Sometimes that’s with a hug; sometimes that’s an ear pull with a kick in the butt, but it’s always an ear pull. Sometimes hard, determined, firm; other times gently and with a joke.

I love You, Father. I love every day because of You.

I take the dogs for a walk every day, as You know, Father, and we speak. And in the wilderness, just like You were, walking in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights—no lightweight in the flesh can do that. No lightweight can do that. Goodness gracious me.

And when I walk the dogs, You dazzle me with Your presence on those walks. And the dogs—they can sense You. They know You. They can’t wait for these walks, Father. They’re increasingly—they bark, they yelp, the wolf pack goes mad. Take them for a walk.

And those walks, sometimes with Chris—sometimes without—I take those dogs and I’ve started to realise that they love those walks because of Your presence. Because they used to love a walk before, but never like this. It’s only when I started turning those walks into walking with You, and how beautiful Your—this desert is—this arid land, the ruggedness of it, the animals, the droppings, the dens, the rabbit holes, the hare dens, the bush pigs. You know the ant-eaters, the Pumba’s are out there. Beautiful, man. Beautiful.

And the dogs love Your presence. They know that we’re walking and it’s something more special than their average walk since I’ve brought You into it. It’s just amazing. I can’t wait for every evening at five o’clock when I start my walk in the cool of the day—the cool of the day being thirty-five.

And You Father—the faith, the perspicuity of all that are here—seeing us hanging and removing us from that noose. Yes, with rope burns, but our neck’s intact, our heart’s intact, our being’s intact, and our future bright.

My Lord. Oh my Lord. My Father—our Father, our Commander in Chief—every day, new, deeper, broader, higher opportunity in the context of Your glory. Sure, every day I start to see the Kingdom, not because I’m imagining it, because of Your glory, and the future’s bright. And while the reprobate has to wear shades, we don’t. I’ll leave that with You, Father.

I ask You to bless our call. Grace each one here. Each one of us here—our hearts, our souls, our families—to protect us, to love us. Never have to say no, where we ought to say yes in every one of these glorious areas of Your creation, my Lord.

I ask You this through Your Son, beloved, the glorious Jesus Christ’s name, through asking forgiveness for our sin.

Amen.

God’s grace to you,

Paul S. Waugh 

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