Morning Manna

Several weeks ago in mid September, this was my morning manna, my morning glory, my morning meditation. I would be up as the sun rose through the pines in the back yard, steadily illuminating the hummingbird feeder, the room and all the surrounding grounds. It was usually the determiner of my day. Not currently working, after meditating(with coffee of course) and musing in the word, all the time looking out toward the rising sun. If the morning was particularly foggy, I would usually head out in search of photographs, usually South toward Providence and the rolling hills, which I liken to about as close to Kentucky as I shall ever come.
If the day was full of clouds, I would head North West, toward White Springs and the Suwannee River, usually Bell Springs Tract.
But, there were other days, more often than not, that I would just stay home and watch the hummingbirds feed and fight for the feeder. This season, though I did capture several pleasing photographs, the main joy was simply being here and being able to observe.
Today, to go along with the Mizpah, I am meditating upon Precious Ones. Last evening and the last two weeks have been particularly difficult times for me. Last evening it culminated with one Precious saying, Get out of my life! Last week it again reared its ugly head with another two essentially saying, Get out of our lives! How does one heal from such rejection?
Thus, scripture was comforting today.
"Come to Him. He is the living Stone whom men rejected but God selected as precious. And let yourselves be built as living stones into a spiritual temple, to be holy priests who bring spiritual sacrifices that God gladly accepts through Jesus Christ. The Bible says: I am laying in Zion a Cornerstone, chosen and precious, and if you believe in Him, you'll never be disappointed. He is precious to you who believe, but to those who do not believe He is the Stone which, rejected by the builders, has become the Cornerstone, a Stone they stumble over and a Rock they fall over. When they disobey the Word, they stumble over it; that's the end appointed for them.
But you are a chosen people, priests of a King, a holy nation, a people saved to be His own and to tell of the wonderful deeds of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were no people, but now you are God's people. Once you had received no mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Dear friends, I urge you, as guests and strangers in this world: Refuse to do what the body wants, because it appetites fight against the soul. Live a noble life among the people of the world, that instead of accusing you of doing wrong, they may see the good you do and glorify God when He visits them. I Peter 2:4-12.