Couldn't help myself. I have another one I wish I could share from my phone. Walking down the beach at Jekyll. Blue sky and no one around. Water, 80 degrees and beautiful sand. Can you tell I need a vacation?
As I sit here and look out the window I see "The Land of the Black Sticks!" Some people laugh when I say that, and it is my own coinage. The sky is blue, however, and I have the doors open. Dakota and I will take a walk here pretty soon, and hope the hunters are gone for lunch. Dakota kept bucking me this morning. She did not want to go outside. And, then I heard it, the distant roar of men hunting deer. Okay, this is it, we are not moving into a new season. Here is where I get to cowgirl up. I don't do ovens, pap smears, and winter. There is nothing - oops, I forgot mammograms. There is nothing worse than this group of items for me.
Of course, after reading my devotions I have to recant and say, okay Lord, your will, not mine. I came across Exodus 14: 13 and 14 this morning. It has been awhile since I looked that verse up. it was a major set of verses that I memorized back in 1983. I was in my masters program at University of St. Francis. We had just purchased a hatchback Honda that was fairly new. It had power brakes and power steering. I was on my way to school on a rainy morning. Over on 52, there used to be a steel bridge. As I crossed it, a dog stepped out in front and I blew the horn, but nothing. I over corrected and ended up in the ditch on my side. God's is awesome when He writes on our page. A hatchback means you pull a lever and walk out the back of the car. Which I did. The dog was deaf and blind and had gotten out of the neighbor's house. When they pulled the car out, the frame was not bent and I drove it home. Sound good! Well, two things began to happen. No matter what I incurred on the road, I could not blow my horn. It was like I was in suspended automation. And, that whole summer, everything from tree limbs, to kids on bikes, to animals came in front of my vehicle. I could not blow the horn. The panic was getting out of hand. I cried out to the Lord and one morning there it was. Exodus 14: 13 and 14.
"And Moses told the people. FEAR not; stand (firm, confident, undismayed) and see the salvation of the Lord which He will work for you today. For the Egyptians you have seen today you shall never see again. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace and remain at rest."
Is that not fantastic. There are a zillion do not fear's in the Bible, but this one just came flying out at me. The enemy had been using my phobia to bring anxiety and the idea that this was going to happen again. I claimed those two verses, memorized those two verses and claimed victory. God's promises are true. What a peace I received from that. Am I over the horn blowing thing. That has been years ago. I still have a moment of freezing, but I have gotten better. The main point for me was, I would never see that Egyptian again. And, I didn't.
Hope your weekend is beautiful and remember suit up, remember God's promises, and tell others.
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