So, I see it has been over three years since blogging on this spot.  I am going to give it another try.  I am in such a better place right now, that hopefully I will be able to be an encouragement to someone instead of in need of it so desperately for myself.  I love life and the spot ib am in right now.  Thank you Jesus for that....so get much😇😇

Inhaling Faith

I have been literally taking in every bit of faith I can possibly get my hands on.  I have been an emotional wreck the last week.  (Not a new thing for me, but, reoccurring.)   I have really had a very hard time with the Empty Nest, which really took me by surprise.  So anyway, fighting and masking the emotions has not been a good thing for me.  I was sick with  a cold/cough, not feeling too bad yet, I decided to take a few bags of things to the thrift store for donations.  I guess I was thirteen minutes past the time they accept donations.  I started to cry.  The poor young man must have seen the look on my face as he said so sweetly, "I can't take the Halloween item, but, I will take the bag of clothes.  It will be our little secret."  God bless that young man!!  He blessed me.  I couldn't be angry, I couldn't say anything except Thank you so much!!  I still cried when I got back in my pick up, but, I was also so amazed at how God puts these little blessings in our lives that prove to be huge.

I spend most of my spare time taking in all the faith thoughts and words that I can.  I need them to help me carry on through each day.  It is a real challenge for me to get things done these days.  I feel like I live in too much clutter, and don't know where to begin.  I then realized that I had already begun.  I had those two bags of clothing and household items to give away.  I was overly blessed by a complete stranger when I did that....and I have started a new project of purging and shredding the old papers that I have hidden in drawers and closets.  Also, a new bag of "thrift store blessings" to add to as I find things around my house that need to be moved on to bless someone else in their home.

Thank you, my dear wonderful and ever so loving Father for placing that wonderful young man in my Saturday, through the tears you brought me, you also brought me more of a blessing, knowledge and your amazing peace to my heart by showing me that I am not suppose to do everything in one day.  When I inhale your faith I am able to see the blessings through the tears and the trees, as well as know that I can and will get all things done within your time with your will, not mine.

I love you, Father and I want you in every breathe and every word and every action of all my days.

Faith Lifts Confidence

January 9, 2015... I haven't written in a couple of day....it has been a busy week.  My son broke his collar bone recently and has been home more....therefore, I am cooking dinner more frequently and being domestic.  I still haven't taken down my Christmas tree though.  To give me a little break on that, we were in Las Vegas from the 30th until the 5th so I would have normally started "undecorating" last weekend.  It is never a process that I like....but, since I am following Jesus this year much better than I normally do, I feel confident in moving forward and starting this new year with happiness because of keeping my faith in tact.

I am loving the beginning of this new me.  Same person....but, ready for the daily challenge of working with a non pleasant person, who unfortunately is one of my bosses.  Having this new and steady faith has given me the confident and love to deal with her in such a better light.  I pray daily that I will be able to continue in this manner, and as long as I am praying and keeping my priorities in the right place....I can and will move forward with my goals to get myself to a healthy and happier work environment!

Matthew 19:26The Message (MSG)

26 Jesus looked hard at them and said, “No chance at all if you think you can pull it off yourself. Every chance in the world if you trust God to do it.”

Faith Heals

January 5, 2015....So today I feel such a peace within myself.  I must admit that it was a very low level day for me...no work, and it was the last day of a weeks vacation.  I was able to read one of my favorite books as my son drove us back home from Las Vegas, (about an eight hour drive). However, anyone that knows me knows that I am a worrier...with a restless mind that does way too much over thinking and can even create things to worry about.  I can also be a frustrated and restless passenger.  Reading was most likely the best thing I could have done during the drive.

Another monumental feat for me today was not being emotional when I said good-bye to my other son that lives in Las Vegas.  No, I didn't like saying good bye, but, it is a rare time when I don't cry for hours or even days after saying good bye to family....especially one of my sons.  There have been times when it has taken me a week to even be able to answer when someone asks how was my vacation.

What I have to say about this is Thank you, Lord!  I have been reading my devotional and praying the whole time I was on vacation.  When I felt the sadness begin to come over me...or the beginning of an anxious feeling....I immediately prayed it away in Jesus' name.  Yes, I did do a lot of praying whilst vacationing, but, that is a very good thing, as God asks us to pray always.  The most wonderful thing of all is that prayers really do works!!  I love Jesus so much!!!

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18English Standard Version (ESV)

16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Putting Faith First

Today is January 4th, 2015.  I am starting this new year with a plan to focus on the positive by putting my advice I give to others in action for myself.  First plan of action is putting my faith where it belongs....in my heart and mind.  Forget the worries that trouble me and let God handle the worries that I battle with.  He wants this for us and that is also what I would like to do in pleasing Him.

Matthew 6:25-34New International Version (NIV)

Do Not Worry

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.