What gets you through it?

When bad things happen to you, what helps you get through?


Is it your church family?     Your faith?    Help from family and friends?  What makes things easier to deal with?  


For me it is definitely my church and my faith, and especially my friends.  We have had a trying week with my mother being sick, and it can definitely take a toll on your mental health if you don't have some kind of outlet it is very easy to feel sorry for yourself, and also feel like you are the only one who is going through anything like this.


But you are not alone.  Even if there are no other people around who you think can help you. 


You always have the Lord.  I don't know about you, but I pray A LOT!!!  Especially when I feel alone.  It is amazing to me that God loves me so much that he cares about the piddly stuff that I am going through, when there are people going through way worse things than I am.  


I don't know about you but that makes me feel pretty special.  That even little old, lowly me, has God's ear and he really listens to what I have to say.  


Knowing that helps me get through almost any difficult situation.  Even the dentist!!

"I say this because I know what I am planning for you," says the Lord.  "I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you.  I will give you hope and a good future.  Then you will call my name.  You will come to me and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  You will search for me.  And when you search for me with all your heart, you will find me!"

Jeremiah 29:11-13

Answers

We may not always get the answers we want when we pray, but we do get an answer.  Whether we are satisfied with the answer we get is irrelevant.  We do get an answer that is what we need to keep in mind. 

God always hears our prayers.  We just have to be patient.  (That is what is so hard for us.)

Keep praying!!!

Prayer for today

Today I want to pray for strength to get through difficult situations.  Peace to calm me, compassion to see the needs in others and respond.  


Please pray for Bobby's family, he passed away yesterday.  Pray that they feel God's love surrounding them during this difficult time.


Please pray for Ruby who isn't feeling well.  Pray for kids who are going on to bigger things with school being over for them.  Pray they will make good choices, and seek God's wisdom first.


Pray for all the lonely people who just want someone to talk to, and if you know of someone who might need reaching out to, that you would take the initiative and reach out.

His Grace is sufficient

Sunday was homecoming at our church and we had a wonderful guest speaker who at one time was a Pastor at our church.

His focus for the sermon was on God's Grace.

While his wife suffers from breast cancer and is currently hospitalized, he still came to us telling us all about God's grace and the hope and peace God has to offer us.

Sometimes, when you are sitting at church, you just know that you were meant to hear what the Pastor had to say and this was one of those times.

There are days when we tend to feel sorry for ourselves because of all the "stuff" that goes on in our everyday lives.  Stuff like kids fighting, parents getting older, family dysfunction.  What?  You don't have any of that?  Well, I'm not saying I do either, but sometimes it can be overwhelming.

But today, I was thinking about all the stuff in my life that isn't perfect, and after I named every situation off as I prayed about it, I thanked God that I had all that stuff.  I have a family that I love, my mom is still here, and I am still able to help her.  While I am busy with kids and graduation, and grocery shopping, and ball practice, and everything else that goes on.  He was right, his grace is sufficient.