What a year!!!

WOW! Where has this year gone!  I can't believe it's October already and I haven't written on my blog since the beginning of the year.  This has definitely been a year for the books for me.  No need in going into everything that has happened but let me say I know without a doubt that without my personal Lord and Savior Jesus Christ guiding me I would probably be in a corner in the fetal position crying my eyes out!

Over the past few weeks in particular so many things have happened that are for lack of better word, life changing!  Those moments will forever be in my head and most of them I would love to say were good, but then that would be a lie.  I've learned over the past couple of years but especially in the last few months that life is life and how we react to the things that happen in our life determine how we will live.

Yeah that sounds so much easier typing it or saying it than actually doing it.  There are days over the past few months that I'll be honest I did well to even get out of bed.  Then there are days I felt terrific and I did alot on those days!

Today my heart is in a learning and soaking in pattern, I have "much assurance" as my uncle preached so beautifully last night at church.  There were times in his message last night that  I felt like it was just me, him and God having a conversation.   I love when God does that!  He is the Creator of the Universe, yet with all the billions of people on this planet, last night in at the East Radford Church of God in Virginia, I felt like He was talking just to me!

Isaiah 40:29 says He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.  That's my scripture right now for sure and it is also my prayer.  Do you ever feel that way?  It wouldn't suprise me to know that alot would say yes!  There are days when I feel so faint, so weak, but then I remember, in my weakness His strength is made perfect, and I would much rather walk in His strength than I would ever want to walk in mine!

My prayer today......Lord I know I'm not perfect, and I know that there are going to be days ahead when I feel faint and I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders.  It's in those days I know Lord that in my weakness Your strength is perfect, and I'm never alone because You are always there with me.  It's on those days I know you are increasing my strength and on those days I know that if I can't see Your footprints in the sand it's because You are carrying me!  Thank You for Your unconditional love to me!....In Jesus name! Amen....

On a day like this....

As a kid me and my sister used to sing this little silly song and to be honest I'm not even sure where we heard it, but it went "On a day like this On a day like this On a day like this Oh....I need the Lord to help me" and after you said oh you had to do different things like clap, stomp your feet, and make different sounds and the song went on over and over like that about 5 times. It was a funny song to sing and it never failed with us that we would sing it until we got on Dad or Mom's nerves - cause we always sang it when we were in the car riding somewhere!

It's funny that I think about that song because this past week has been one of those weeks and while I haven't went around singing that song Ihave thought on some days on a day like this boy do I ever need the Lord to help me! I think I've went through tons of emotions this week but in the end I stand on God's promises knowing that no matter what comes my way that He is faitful and He will take care of me!!!

While I was thinking about that song I kept thinking on the joy we used to got out of singing that song until it annoyed someone when we were litte and even now we sing it for my neice and she thinks it's funny. The thing about that song is not that were every having a bad day - it's just a funny song that you really sing it because of the different songs and hand jestures you make. I'm convinced that my sister and I didn't even realize what we were really singing until the song was so stuck in our head that we can't get rid of it.

I think that's how we are sometimes! As a Christian sometimes we let the world get us so aggrivated that we just feel like giving up, when really what we should be doing insead of singing about how frustrated we are, we should be singing songs like "Stand Still and let God move" or "From the depths of my heart Lord I'm calling out to you" or songs like "I am not forgotten I am not forgotten He knows my name!"

So I say lets purpose for this week to overcome those things that are weighting us down!

these are my thoughts....my inner thoughts roll on...

Trish D