10:59pm The past few years our family has enjoyed going to the Spring Hill Fall Festival. Some of the years my family from Goodland has been in town and that is always super fun. This year we walked in the parade with our brothers and sisters in Christ, our friends from our church - Life Spring. I always love doing this because it's fun being with friends, but also because of all the people we get to see along the way - friends and strangers. As a church we hand out water bottles so we get to interact, if even just for a few seconds, with so many people. I love it. Today right as we were getting out of our car, right away we saw a friend with her near 2 year old in his stroller. And that was the first of many. Strollers, strollers everywhere. Even though my heart felt it, all along my mind kept saying to me 'don't go there.' I wanted to be there with Avelyn. Pushing her in her stroller. Smiling at her. Loving on her. Enjoying the parade with her as we walked down the main street of Spring Hill. Thankfully the Lord my God kept my focus on Him. Because I know He "works for the good of those who love Him." (Romans 8:28)--This helps me so much to think of this.
I just finished week 2, day 3 of a Beth Moore Bible study we are doing through our women's ministry in church. It is called 'Children of the Day (Light)' and is on 1 & 2 Thessalonians; it has been great thus far. Today it talked about our walk with God. Haha. Funny..."walk." Lots of 'walking' today. :) It mentions that 'To walk before Him' (like it mentions so many times in the Bible) means to 'live continually God aware.' I loved how it put this. This is exactly what I am trying to do right now . I need to do this. I have to do this. Being continually God aware. It's my way of surviving these days. Of making it. Of taking my next step. By God's grace, His strength, your prayers, I am able to do this. Praise God. I am so thankful I have Him. I am in Him. He is in me. In the study it talks about a verse I've read probably hundreds of times before, but today I looked at it in a whole new 'light.' Matthew 7:7-8 says "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." In the past I have always looked at these verses as God giving me something I need. Or want. In that case, why wasn't my daughter healed?? I asked!!! ...Oh how I asked. I begged. I pleaded. On hands and knees...I prayed. I cried out. But now, I truly feel in these verses He is talking about seeking Him. Finding Him. Do this and He will be there. Step One: if you don't already Know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, ask for Him and He will be there!! Step Two: once you've done this, ask for Him to be with you constantly and He will be. Thank goodness. This is exactly what I need now. And He is providing it for me. Thank goodness. As I walked today, He helped me 'walk' with Him. Keeping my eyes on Him. Not back. Not forward. But UP on Him. Another verse has really resonated with me lately. Romans 8:18 "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us." I may be suffering here, but because I have asked, He is with me. He is helping me through...as I await the glory He will reveal to me in heaven...when I meet Him face to face, when I meet my baby girl--my angel.
Thank you for helping me walk with God. Your prayers continue to help me. I pray if you are not walking with God, that you will ask Him now, seek Him now, knock for the door to open NOW. He will be there!! I pray we will all walk with God now. Always. To eternity. Together.
I just finished week 2, day 3 of a Beth Moore Bible study we are doing through our women's ministry in church. It is called 'Children of the Day (Light)' and is on 1 & 2 Thessalonians; it has been great thus far. Today it talked about our walk with God. Haha. Funny..."walk." Lots of 'walking' today. :) It mentions that 'To walk before Him' (like it mentions so many times in the Bible) means to 'live continually God aware.' I loved how it put this. This is exactly what I am trying to do right now . I need to do this. I have to do this. Being continually God aware. It's my way of surviving these days. Of making it. Of taking my next step. By God's grace, His strength, your prayers, I am able to do this. Praise God. I am so thankful I have Him. I am in Him. He is in me. In the study it talks about a verse I've read probably hundreds of times before, but today I looked at it in a whole new 'light.' Matthew 7:7-8 says "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." In the past I have always looked at these verses as God giving me something I need. Or want. In that case, why wasn't my daughter healed?? I asked!!! ...Oh how I asked. I begged. I pleaded. On hands and knees...I prayed. I cried out. But now, I truly feel in these verses He is talking about seeking Him. Finding Him. Do this and He will be there. Step One: if you don't already Know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, ask for Him and He will be there!! Step Two: once you've done this, ask for Him to be with you constantly and He will be. Thank goodness. This is exactly what I need now. And He is providing it for me. Thank goodness. As I walked today, He helped me 'walk' with Him. Keeping my eyes on Him. Not back. Not forward. But UP on Him. Another verse has really resonated with me lately. Romans 8:18 "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us." I may be suffering here, but because I have asked, He is with me. He is helping me through...as I await the glory He will reveal to me in heaven...when I meet Him face to face, when I meet my baby girl--my angel.
Thank you for helping me walk with God. Your prayers continue to help me. I pray if you are not walking with God, that you will ask Him now, seek Him now, knock for the door to open NOW. He will be there!! I pray we will all walk with God now. Always. To eternity. Together.
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