Moments

  Sometimes it takes a swallow hard and accept but a lot of people are not going to take God as seriously as you.  Not that I am better but that God seems to excite me more than I see others excited by God.   But, I've had my down times and I've had my times when God felt far away.  Is it they are having those periods of distance, or is it a pattern of practice, a tattoo they can't remove, and life with God has become ho-hum and distant.  Could it be that all that is left is the shell of the relationship they once had?  Or, could it be they have never felt the richness I have been blessed to feel in the special place close to God?    I don't have any answers and it is not my calling to judge anyone on this.  Perhaps they have found their way quietly to the feet of Jesus and are content with who and where they are?  God bless them. God bless us all. 

The last six months it has rained challenges, and hardships.  In the same six months, it has also rained blessings. God has seen to shelter me from the falling rain.  I know there will be some hardships in the future I will have to go through but the same God who sheltered me from the rain will be with me in the storm. Each time a new challenge came up, we just took it to prayer. We asked for deliverance but accepted "nevertheless thy will" too. Each time God delivered us - sometimes almost miraculously.  Sometimes the timing or circumstance that affected deliverance seemed much  more than coincidence.  Yesterday contained a series of deliverances, so today I just gotten go public with my gratitude.  Praise God for all He has done.  Praise God for all He has saved me from, and all I know He will carry me through in this world and into the next. AMEN