Fall is slipping through our fingers everyone! What happened to the most beautiful season of the year, or as far as I am concerned? The color was way late and if there was color it was gold, brown and they are falling off already. I miss that brilliant gold, red, rust, then brown affect. How about you?
Well, so it is our first frost today, and so it is what it is and God wants us to take each day for Him. Did you notice the word TAKE. It means whatever you are mulling over, or maybe even totally enjoying; make it about Him.
I read something this morning I want to share - Go gently into your day today. Kepp your eyes on Me. I will most certainly make the way open and you can trust Me to take each step down the path. Let us do it together. You might even get the idea that the path is blocked some how. You stop. You try to figure a way around it. Don't do that. It will cause you to step to far off course. I want you to instead, focus on Me. Before you know it, the obstacle is gone and you turn around and wonder when you went through. This is complete success in living today. Focus on your Lord Jesus, even though its a visible world out there, trust Him to get you over the rocky road - rough patch. His presence enables you to face each day with confidence. If it is a day of jubilee then Hippity Hop through your day. Enjoy. But it is still the same scenario - FOCUS ON HIM! GIVE HHIM THE THANKS!
John 10: 14-15 and Isaiah 26: 7
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Saturday, October 3, 2015
COMING TO TERMS!
It is a blessing to have such good girlfriends. My posse as John calls them. I can never thank God enough for this gift. He knew several years ago that I would be an only child and that I would need lots of friends. My whole family, as it were, lives up in Minnesota, in Arizona, Texas, California, and Oregon. I have seen them maybe four times. Thank you Jesus, you always know what each one of us needs.
Well, anyway, one of those great gals and I were talking last night about all the sickness in our lives. The many changes of life because of that, and just everything around how it seems to be so different.
Another "new normal" is on the horizon. Family, friends, on both sides of just the two of us. It is breathtaking. She came up with the following term, while I was stumbling around, which doesn't happen very often, but here it is. . .we are processing and learning how to accept . . .COMING TO TERMS with it all!!! I had been out for a walk and was doing just that. Got home, and there she was on the phone. I love how God works all things together. Then this morning in Jesus Calling by Sarah Young came the rest. (Don't you love how He knows all that timing) If you don't have this book - you need to get it.
WHEN MANY THINGS SEEM to be going wrong, trust Me. When your life feels increasingly out of control, thank Me. These are the supernatural responses, and they can lift you above your circumstances. If you do what comes naturally in the face of difficulties, you may fall prey to negativism. Even a few complaints can set you on a path that is a downward spiral, by darkening your perspective and mind-set. With this attitude controlling you, complaints flow more and more readily from your mouth. Each one moves you steadily down the slippery spiral. The lower you go, the faster you slide; but it is still possible to apply the brakes. Cry out to Me in My Name! Affirm your trust in Me, regardless of how you feel. Thank Me for everything, though this seems unnatural - even irrational. Gradually you will begin to ascend, recovering your lost ground. When you are back on ground level, you can face your circumstances from a humble perspective. If you choose supernatural responses this time - trusting and thanking Me - you will experience My unfathomable Peace.
Psalm 13: 5 and Eph 5: 20
Geesh! I had been hitting the worldly floor of my reality so hard each day I had worked clear into my future five years from now. I didn't like it. I got all down in the mouth. Do you ever do that? Its so silly. It wastes time. But, as some of my other posse friends have said. "We are human you know."
So I do hope this touches your life like it touched mine. I see why we are to be in the WORD every day - and the people He touches to write devotionals. Send them all to me. I need it everyday. We all do!.
Thank you Dotty Miller.
Well, anyway, one of those great gals and I were talking last night about all the sickness in our lives. The many changes of life because of that, and just everything around how it seems to be so different.
Another "new normal" is on the horizon. Family, friends, on both sides of just the two of us. It is breathtaking. She came up with the following term, while I was stumbling around, which doesn't happen very often, but here it is. . .we are processing and learning how to accept . . .COMING TO TERMS with it all!!! I had been out for a walk and was doing just that. Got home, and there she was on the phone. I love how God works all things together. Then this morning in Jesus Calling by Sarah Young came the rest. (Don't you love how He knows all that timing) If you don't have this book - you need to get it.
WHEN MANY THINGS SEEM to be going wrong, trust Me. When your life feels increasingly out of control, thank Me. These are the supernatural responses, and they can lift you above your circumstances. If you do what comes naturally in the face of difficulties, you may fall prey to negativism. Even a few complaints can set you on a path that is a downward spiral, by darkening your perspective and mind-set. With this attitude controlling you, complaints flow more and more readily from your mouth. Each one moves you steadily down the slippery spiral. The lower you go, the faster you slide; but it is still possible to apply the brakes. Cry out to Me in My Name! Affirm your trust in Me, regardless of how you feel. Thank Me for everything, though this seems unnatural - even irrational. Gradually you will begin to ascend, recovering your lost ground. When you are back on ground level, you can face your circumstances from a humble perspective. If you choose supernatural responses this time - trusting and thanking Me - you will experience My unfathomable Peace.
Psalm 13: 5 and Eph 5: 20
Geesh! I had been hitting the worldly floor of my reality so hard each day I had worked clear into my future five years from now. I didn't like it. I got all down in the mouth. Do you ever do that? Its so silly. It wastes time. But, as some of my other posse friends have said. "We are human you know."
So I do hope this touches your life like it touched mine. I see why we are to be in the WORD every day - and the people He touches to write devotionals. Send them all to me. I need it everyday. We all do!.
Thank you Dotty Miller.
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