Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Good Morning, Friend
The Lord is far from the wicked, But He
hears the prayer of the righteous.
( Proverbs 15:29 *NKJV )
We may pray that God will handle a problem for us, or to
fulfill a dream we have, while never letting it go for Him to handle.
We instead take it back and try to handle it on our own.
We may then even put all of our trust in another to solve it for
us as well. Now it is written; It is better to trust in the
Lord than to put confidence in man.
( Psalms 118:8 )
So the next time that you ask God to handle something for you,
leave it in God's capable hands, and; Rest in the Lord, and
wait patiently for Him; ( Psalms 37:7 ) Do not
pull it back again and try to handle it without Him.
Now this reminds me of a poem that I often read before I pray
for something, and I will share it with you right now. I hope that
you will enjoy it as much as I do.
Broken Dreams
As children bring
their broken toys
with tears for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams
to God
because He was my friend!
But then instead
of leaving Him
in peace to work alone,
I hung around
and tried to help
with ways
that were my own.
At last I snatched them back
and cried,
"How can you be so slow?"
"My child," He said
"What could I do?
You never did let go."
Author Unknown
All My Love & Prayers,
Pastor Allen
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Raspberry candy
> I like Sour Patch Kids, Skittles, Starburst, and Shock Tarts too.
> I prefer this type of candy instead of chocolate. Don't get me wrong I like chocolate, but I am rarely in the mood for it.
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Bitterness
What a good topic. It came at a perfect time in my life.
I felt this way the other day and found it better to talk about it with that person.
She was clueless that she had hurt my feelings. I made myself sick with worry about it all weekend.
When I spoke to her about it yestereday, she had no clue.
I am all about confrontation and getting to the root of it. It helps alot.
I am slowly wading through the other things in my life.
"All of your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them." - ºoº Walt Disney ºoº
Heavenly Homemakers |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 06:33 AM PDT Bitterness. What a fun thing to experience. It eats at you, distracts you, causes you to lose sleep, makes you feel angry and keeps the hurt feelings right at the surface of your heart. We've all had our feelings hurt at one time or another. People have sinned against us. They have been thoughtless toward us. Some have intentionally been mean or hurtful to us. Others have treated us with disrespect. Some have made us feel like a little piece of dirt that is worth nothing more than to be tossed out to the wind. None of that feels good. None of that causes us to smile, to be happy or to feel loved. Hurtful words and actions from others are painful to endure, whether they were intended to cause pain or not. It's okay to be angry. Anger is a God given emotion and a natural feeling after someone has wronged us. But we don't get to run a bath full of anger and soak in it. Most of the time, when I am angry at someone…they are completely clueless that they have hurt me or made me angry. I'll have countless "conversations in my head" with that person in which I effectively set the record straight, and oh so eloquently let them know how right I am and how wrong they are and boy do I let them have it! In my head. Over and over. And over. What a completely unproductive use of my time and brain power. This is where bitterness creeps in. It's hard to let go of anger. I hold onto it because I want to "punish" the person who hurt me. Instead, all I'm doing is punishing myself, making myself physically sick with the cancer of bitterness. The way I see it, I have three choices: I can choose to go to the person and resolve the issue, forgive and move on. If I truly can't bring myself to go to the person and work through the problem of my hurt, then I HAVE to choose to just let go of it. Otherwise, I'm making the third choice…the choice to be bitter. Clearly, resentment is a choice. We didn't choose for someone to hurt us, but if we remain unforgiving and ugly-hearted, we are choosing resentment. We are not allowed to say, "Everything he has done to me has made me SO BITTER." Nope. He may have hurt you, but he didn't make you bitter. You chose to be bitter. Deciding to let go of bitterness and forgive…it's hard. It's painful. It's gut-wrenching. It takes much prayer and an absolute surrender of your self. And then it's freeing. So, so freeing. Oh the ways God can use us when our hearts are free of bitterness! And oh how we are stuck in a trap of ugly, painful memories when we choose not to let it go. Resentment is a choice. What will you choose?
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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