An Expensive Habit

Today is ending a long weekend of Thanksgiving fun. I had some much warm fuzzy time with family and friends. My mom made all the great comfort foods and for a short moment we all forgot about our worries and enjoyed each other and our life!!! Not to mention that the Dallas Cowboys won their game , Yeah!!!!;o)
But now , as I come down off the mountain top, Reality hits and I hear about heartaches,From the loss of a 15 year old boy , who was out with his father and brothers hunting and in an accident loss his life, then, others who have loss their job, marriages that are fighting for survival, Men who have to be deployed and spend time away from their family..
I begin to be highly concern... OK, WORRY! What is happening??? Why is it happening? Why do bad things happen to good people??? Then I recognize , I have become anxious.Which I do not consider myself to be that kind of person but God reveal, while I do not act as the rabbit in the Winnie the Pooh books saying ,"Oh dear". I do act it out. I will not be confessing how I act it out at this time ;00....
In Matthew 6:27 " You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it."
God reminded me I have an expensive habit, .. anxiety.. which it does cost me. It cost me peace of mind! I learned that Anxiety splits our energy between today's priorities and tomorrow's problems. Part of my mind is on now ;the rest is not even yet.
The result is.. half-minded living. You know that saying " you have half a brain"... well, if you are worrying then..... Ouch!
Worrying has been connected to causing diseases, link to high blood pressure, heart trouble, blindness and many other things.This is a very Expensive Habit!
God, through His word, let me know that Anxiety doesn't work, our frets are futile. It has never solved a problem, nor cured a disease.
It has cause me to live only half the life I was meant to live!!!
It is an expensive habit.. That is not worth the cost!
So Today.. I am casting All my cares on Him for He cares for me!!!

The 15 year old boy who died in the hunting accident, At His funeral, 17 young people came to know the Lord.
It is not for me to understand but to TRUST HIM!!!!!!

I ask God....

My Husband and I are involved in a Life group from our church, which we love! In our group we watch a movie and then answer questions, trying to find Jesus in the movie and how it relates to our life and how we can apply God's word to it.
Well, Since I do not analyze most things, this has been a challenge for me. I usually watch a movie for entertainment value only, Others in our group see it clear as day, my husband being one of them. ( opposites attracts ;o) Our last movie was SIGNS, In it Mel Gibson character had lost his wife and was really mad at God for allowing that to happen and then aliens came and attacked his family. OK, you might need to see the movie .
I was thinking about Mel's character ,He had asked God not to take his wife ,He was very angry with God, cause it was not the answer he wanted. He then turn from God and left the church ., lots more going in the movie.... but.....
I realized that I too have asked God to do something For me and many times did not get the answer that I wanted. I can thank God for some of those "NO" answers .. like the boy I wanted to marry in high school, God protected me and Him :O) but there have many things like my parents divorce, then loss of children through both pregnancy and adoption.. there are many more things both big and small, that I have ask God to do For me ...
Psalms 121 is a great reminder of what God does and reminds me , that too often I seek help from wrong sources... It is He who made the Mountains , the heavens and ME!! He will always have his loving eyes on me, refreshing my soul and protecting me from danger without and within.
While God may have not done all that I ask Him to do for me, He was doing something IN me.
Phil. 1:6 He who began a good work in you, will keep right on helping you grow in his grace until his task within you is finally finished on that day when Jesus Christ returns!!!
I am eternally grateful that God, who knows and sees the big picture , Yet, He still wants me to be a part of his plan. What an awesome God!!!!

Daddy and Daughter

This morning, As I was getting dress,I heard the conversation between my daughter and her daddy. He was getting ready to go out the door for work, it went something like this..

Daddy, I love you, you are the best daddy in the world. Daddy, thank you for my house and food and clothes and Dora, Daddy, daddy. Daddy ,where are going? thank you for working hard for me, Daddy, When will I see you? Daddy. I love you!!!!

Then he went out the door and she comes skipping and dancing into my room and lets me know that she has the best daddy in the world and She is his princess girl. As I listen to her, I was grateful at what God had done in our family. We adopted her at three years of age, she is now seven, I remember the very first day she saw Duane, she called him daddy, (I knew at that moment she was ours, there was not turning back). I was reminding of my relationship with my heavenly father. I thank God, He adopted me into his family. I was reviewing Romans 8:28-39 and what God had told me He will do for me.

The "I will" statements in the passage..

I will... make sure all things work together for your good.

.... conform you into the likeness of my son

...... justify and glorified you

.....graciously give you all things

.....intercede for you

..... never separate his love from me!!!!!

These are promises to me from God, He does not just tolerate me.

God is on my side because He chooses to be. He choose me!!!!

So I, as his daughter can be confident , Just as I see the confidence in my daughter when she saids to her daddy, You are the best daddy in the world., I am so glad that I am your girl. I too can say the same to my father, cause He is the best father , in and out of the world!!!!! So let's go skipping and dancing and living like God's girls!!!

Mixed Emotions

Yesterday, We as a nation voted and I love the fact that we have the freedom to do so.
While I did not vote for Obama, My heart was filled with alot of emotions and crying as I watched many others , Many thought we'd never see this day. Many cried cause they have worked very hard and Many have given their lives so that this day would come. I was so excited for them. I know as a white woman, I could never really understand all the emotions that I saw but as a Parent of two children who are black, I am filled with alot of excitement for them ,to know that NO More, can anyone tell them they can't be President of the USA, ( Our history has told them that and many other Cant's ) but No More!!! While I am not naive to think that prejudice doesn't exist anymore, It does help to have a biracial President. Thank God we have come along way and I am proud of this country for that.
I say all that .... then I look at what this country DID vote for, My heart hurts for alot of things that we differ on, but mostly for the unborn and marriage act, which he is against.
On my drive to work this morning, I talk to God about it cause He created and loves us both , He was not surprised by the results! He let me know that while I may have wanted to put my trust in a President, I need to put my trust in God, He can trusted!!!
I need to let my love for my Lord show more than my wanting to focus on the things that are wrong with the President. I need to pray for him and his family, and all those he chooses to put in charge. I need to pray for this nation and the world we live in. I need to pray for the body of Christ, that we as a church , will stand for God, not for ourselves, not for our rights, but for HIS righteousness!
So I am learning when I have mixed emotions, go to God who created me cause He can handle them ALL!!!!!!! He can be Trusted with me , with my emotions and with the USA!!!!