Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now,
and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow.
God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up
when the time comes.
I don’t know about you, but I love this verse. Especially when I get caught up in worrying…about things I cannot control.
He is present. ALWAYS.
He is with me. ALWAYS.
He is here. He is there. He is where I need him to be, when I need him to be there.
So why do I worry? Why do I stress about things that are out of my control?
It is kind of like not having a anchor.
Kind of like driftwood floating about, washing up on shore.
And getting tangled in vegetation of life.
But when I totally give my worry to Him…when I totally let go of the things that trouble me…when I remember that HE can handle. He can take care of things. When I remember HE will
deal with whatever hard things come up
when the time comes
then I can let go. I can open my hands…release the worry and see things differently.
These flowers were right there…right by the driftwood. We can see the wood caught in the weeds or we can see the flowers.
When I wrote this post earlier this week, several people remarked in the comments that they give their burdens to the Lord, then pick them up again. We seem to have trouble LEAVING them at his feet. We have trouble leaving our burdens with him.
You know, he doesn’t need our help driving. He really doesn’t. He just needs us to trust him. And when we do…he can do AMAZING things.
Lord, today, please give me the courage to TRUST you completely…with everything.
Do you have trouble TRUSTING HIM completely?
Or trouble leaving your burdens at His feet?
What do you do to overcome the problem?
I discovered this story after preparing this post. Please check it out and if nothing else, please pray for this family.
wow … that video had me in tears. Reminding me of our pastor's little girl who at age 2 began chemo for leukemia. It is so hard for the little ones, I pray this family gets all the help they need. amazing…
As the weeks have drug on it has been easy for me to lose hope.
Will things ever get back to some type of normal? People were not created to live in isolation.
Will we be able to see someone smile or will we always look at them and only see their eyes?
Will people gather without having to sit 6’ apart?
I don’t know the answer and I’m not posting this to debate the news media’s portrayal of the pandemic.
I’m sharing this today because I spent some time with the Lord thanking him for the things I DO have and not focusing on the things I don’t have. The things I have lost since March.
I looked up scriptures about hope.
I made a list in my prayer journal of things I’m grateful for.
Life goes on. Life crisis continues even during this pandemic. People die naturall and tragically. And babies are born. And weddings happen and new lives begin.
This crisis in our world isn’t a surprise to God.
And my hope and security is in Him.
If you scroll through the photos, you see things that made me smile this morning and reminded me of the goodness of God - even now.
With all the grief and sadness in the world I wasn’t sure how I would handle today. How I would allow myself to grieve this loss? Today when there has so much WRONG in our world. In a post @deidrariggs shared today she reminded us that life goes on. And I realized that today this is my life. And I can grieve this loss. My life goes on... I am thankful for the 4 days we had her. On Friday I will remember each event of her last day and I will remember her dying in my arms.
And I will be both sad and grateful. #infantloss #trisomy18 #stlouischildrenshospital
So grateful, Mary, for ALWAYS.
Fondly,
Glenda
wow … that video had me in tears. Reminding me of our pastor's little girl who at age 2 began chemo for leukemia.
It is so hard for the little ones, I pray this family gets all the help they need.
amazing…