I have been really sick. Actually since Christmas Eve. I have been on several rounds of antibiotics I had pneumonia. A huge amount of the time I was so weak I could not even talk on the phone. It is amazing to me how much happens and well what doesn't happen when you are sick. It truly is a time to find out just who your friends are.( And I will add here I have a couple that really do go above and beyond.) I mean I was out for six weeks and it was a true testament to who has concern for you or not.
It also gave me a lot of time to reflect on life. I looked back at where I have been and where God has brought me today. I have had the pleasure of looking into the future to see where we might be going.
I know that I am deeply blessed by the amazing family that the Lord has given me. My parents were here for Christmas and it brought such joy to my heart to spend time with them. Time has really gone by way too fast, upon their visit I became acutely aware of the passage of time and that we have no control over it's movement only conrol over the choices we make while it passes.
My husband and I are making some changes in our lives, long over do. We will no longer be doing things that just make "everyone else" happy. We are going to do things that work best for us that give us the greatest peace with the Lord. It truly is time to let go, let God and move on. We have spent so much time just waiting for the wrong things. We are already blessed with joy and peace, but to try to carry other peoples burdens, well that is a recipe for disaster.
I am really starting to feel better today after showering and getting ready I don't feel like I need a nap already.
I want to encourage you to stop compromising in your lives. Live your live as God wills you to, not as your friends pressure you to. Enjoy the blessings today don't pack them all up in storage. Tell the people you love that you love them. Mend your fences and embrace a new found peace.
Grace to you
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Words that Linger
This will be the first post on my first blog.
Words, our minds are full of them swirling around. There are so many that we can tune to. Perhaps a childhood memory or this mornings news. I have recently been given an award. The type is not important the commentary is. I had while at this ceremony the opportunity to congratulate someone else on their accomplishment. This person reminded me that they had been a part of a conversation with a group of people where I had been encouraging everyone there to hang on to their dreams. He said that those words prompted him to change the course of his life and that as a result he was standing there today.
Now you and I both know that the words I spoke to him did not make up the entire dialogue of his life and yet he chose to hang this accomplishment in it's entirety upon the words he heard from me.
Truly it is imperative that we all realize we are the sum of so much more than one sentence. And to look at the flip side of that we must stop being careless with what we say as in fact someone, somewhere may hang their very life on one sentence that you have spoken.
God gives us such a grand privilege and yet we as humans manage to muck it up quite often. This episode has caused me to pause once again and be acutely aware of the gift of language and the impact on the human spirit.
Words, our minds are full of them swirling around. There are so many that we can tune to. Perhaps a childhood memory or this mornings news. I have recently been given an award. The type is not important the commentary is. I had while at this ceremony the opportunity to congratulate someone else on their accomplishment. This person reminded me that they had been a part of a conversation with a group of people where I had been encouraging everyone there to hang on to their dreams. He said that those words prompted him to change the course of his life and that as a result he was standing there today.
Now you and I both know that the words I spoke to him did not make up the entire dialogue of his life and yet he chose to hang this accomplishment in it's entirety upon the words he heard from me.
Truly it is imperative that we all realize we are the sum of so much more than one sentence. And to look at the flip side of that we must stop being careless with what we say as in fact someone, somewhere may hang their very life on one sentence that you have spoken.
God gives us such a grand privilege and yet we as humans manage to muck it up quite often. This episode has caused me to pause once again and be acutely aware of the gift of language and the impact on the human spirit.
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