Judge me by the Footsteps I leave behind!

Good morning and Happy Wednesday! I pray your "hump day" will be a great one, one filled with grins and giggles, It is another gray day here with a fresh mini blanket of snow forecast we are in great need of a good windy storm to blow away the foggy haze and return to us blue skies and sunshine! 

In prayer this morning I sat outside bundled against the cold and listened to the morning, the haze made it appear really gloomy and the lack of sunshine made me a bit melancholy, I sat and thought about all that I had to do today, prioritizing, listing, and planning. I thought about how this type of day is how my heart feels without seeing my daughter on a regular basis and I thought about how this type of weather was a symbol of someones life each and every day. I began to feel great empathy for those who live each day in "gloom" I know we all get into a gloomy state every so often, but we are able to work through our "gloom" and move back into the light. For some the "gloom" is a daily way of life, they feel as if there is no other way, they get themselves out of bed each day with "gloom", they lay themselves down at night with the same "gloom". It is our responsibility to see these "gloomy" people and be the light that might make them wonder...how, why! We need to shine brightly and be open to them so that if they have a wish to crawl out of their "gloom" we might be God's helpers. God leads people in our path at all times we just many times are to busy to see them. I pray this day that you open your eyes, get past any "gloom" that might be shadowing you and see those who feel they are eternally engulfed by it! Open yourself up and let them share in your light! I asked God to bless all those in "gloom" with you today, to provide you with calm, comfort and peace and to touch your hearts. I asked God to bless my friend having the CT scan on her lungs today that they see only pneumonia and nothing more and for her to be healed completely, and to bless each of you who are suffering any malady with his love and healing hands. I asked these blessings in the name of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Share in this story with me and try to imagine what you would have said and done in the shoes of this man's parents! God is good all of the time and will never lay more upon your shoulders than you can handle. Love to you..be an angel today...so many are in need! 

Judge me by the footsteps I leave behind

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam.

He called his parents from San Francisco.

“Mom and Dad, I’m coming home, but I’ve got a favor to ask. I have a friend I’d like to bring with me.”

“Sure,” they replied, “we’d love to meet him.”

“There’s something you should know the son continued, “he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mined and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us.”

“I’m sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live.”

“No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us.”

“Son,” said the father, “you don’t know what you’re asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can’t let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He’ll find a way to live on his own.”

At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him.

A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide. The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn’t know, their son had only one arm and one leg.

The parents in this story are like many of us. We find it easy to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around, but we don’t like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable. We would rather stay away from people who aren’t as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we are.

Thankfully, there’s someone who won’t treat us that way. Someone who loves us with an unconditional love that welcomes us into the forever family, regardless of how messed up we are.

Tonight, before you tuck yourself in for the night, say a little prayer that God will give you the strength you need to accept people as they are, and to help us all be more understanding of those who are different from us!!!

There’s a miracle called -Friendship- that dwells in the heart. You don’t know how it happens or when it gets started. But you know the special lift It always brings and you realize that Friendship Is God’s most precious gift!

Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always want to open their hearts to us.

Love, love, love.... and the answer is LOVE!

  

 Good morning and happy Wednesday, I pray that this day finds each of you happy and filled with an abundance of love! I realize that most of my posts have LOVE in them, and I know that this might come off as odd to you!. I am a love filled person, I love God, I love life, I love my family, I love my friends, I love, love, love! I do not say I love you lightly, I say it with conviction in my heart and with full truth. I think there is good in all things, there are rainbows at the end of every storm...I may not see the rainbow but I know there is one there, I think there is good in all people, the same as the rainbow, I might not see the good, but we are all made from God, we are all spirits from heaven and anything that God creates is good! I know a lot of "bad" people, some that many have turned their back on, many have thrown their hands in the air and walked away from, but in the end...when Jesus was being walked to the cross, when he was being beaten, when he was being ridiculed, when he was torn to bits, he still died for each of us! In my patriarchal blessing it says that I have been blessed with the power of discernment, that I have been given the gift to feel when people are good and when people might hurt me. I do follow the promptings from the holy spirit. when there are people that I get bad feelings from, I choose not the let them close to me, but I do not turn my back on them, I pray for them, I ask God to give them something to cling to and to allow them to turn and begin to follow his guidance. I think if we stop looking for the bad in people, if we quit judging and if we look for the good in all, if we pray for the salvation of those who have gone astray and if we offer love..we will never go wrong! Today, I challenge you to look for the good in all things, your day will be wonderful, your mood will be light and God will be much pleased! Love in Christ to each and every one of you! God bless you and yours...

Soar with the angels sweet Caylee, you are free from hurt and pain!

Finally I am a bit more rested and ready to dig in deeper to my blog, funny how a vacation leaves us with a great need to rest when we return:(
At the moment they announced the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial we were driving through Oklahoma, I sat there in utter shock and then began to cry, the tears streamed down my face like a waterfall and I could not help feel my heart just breaking  for the lack of justice for this baby girl whose life had been taken for whatever reason it was. I cried for 15 or so miles, just quiet, tears dripping onto my shirt, crying! When I was a young girl I dreamed of having a house full of children, like my mom and dad had, there are 7 of us and I dreamed that I too would have all of the hustle and bustle of a full house. I was only blessed with one baby, and I never really understood why I could not have been the nurturer of many, in looking back I see now that God had other plans for me, a slew of "youngens" was not what I would have! I know many people who have not been blessed with the ability to conceive, thus they are unable to bare children. I know many personally that would be the best of the best when it comes to being mommies and daddies, why I used to ask, why do they have to adopt, why do they have to foster? I know it is not up to us to question God, it is up to us to have faith and to trust the path that he leads us down, it is still bittersweet though to want something so badly and not be able to  do it! I was not angry with the verdict, I know that God is the judge and jury and he is the one who knows the complete story, he was witness to the exact details of this tragedy, he was there to carry little Caylee to heaven. I do not know why the verdict has come out as such, there was not enough evidence to keep her in jail, the jury felt something that the majority of the human race did not. I am not the jury, I am not the judge, I have opinions in my heart that I will not share here, but I do know that when she has to stand in our Father in Heaven's judgement, when she has to answer for the things she did and did not do, is when she will reap what she has sown. I am very sad, for the life short as it was, that Caylee endured! When we have children we are entrusted with God's special gift, he blesses us with these little spirits to give them physical bodies, he blesses us with the gift of loving and nurturing them, he blesses us with the privilege of instilling into them goodness, of filling them with the love of Christ and in teaching them the way. He does not give them to us to harm, he does not give them to us to neglect, he does not give them to us as a burden....he gives them to us with faith and trust that we will do what is expected. Seeing a child hurt is the utmost pain for me, my child is near 25 years old and I hurt when she hurts to this day, when I disappoint her it breaks my heart, sometimes I cry myself to sleep longing just to hug her! I will never understand why people hurt harmless babes, how can they show such disregard for helpless little humans? I am not standing in judgement, like I said, God holds that title, Casey Anthony knows what happened to that angel and will have to live with that for all the rest of the days of her life. May each of us look upon this as a learning tool, may we look at our children in a new and beautiful light, yes kids get on our last nerves, yes they drive us crazy, yes they demand much attention, when we are tired they are still full of energy...but just remember...GOD TRUSTS AND HAS FAITH IN YOU....we must trust and have faith in him, that is what we are taught from a young age, but he to has to trust and have faith in us and I am sure when we let him down, his heart breaks just as ours do here on earth. Take those babies into your arms today and let them feel the love you have for them, if you have been thinking about adoption, move forward with it, all children need love, all children are put here for a reason, if you know of a child being neglected or abused, do something to stop it NOW, don't let what happened to Caylee happen to more!

  

Tuesday morning, just humming a tune, GOOD MORNING!! 69 degrees, breezy, the sun just about over the mountain top, only 12 minutes to hearing morning reveillee coming from the nearby Air Force base, a nice big cup of steaming hot coffee in hand and can't forget the melody of the birds, tweet, tweet tweeting away! What a way to get make ready for the day:) In prayer this morning the phrase "thou shalt not judge" crossed my heart so loud and clear that it almost made me stop mid prayer and begin writing! What a powerful message and no truer one spoken, the world is full of judges! (standing with my hand in the air, feeling guilty each time I become one of them) I confess, yes I confess, I am guilty of judging, I repent daily for this one!!! I stereotype, I judge, I feel shame, I repent, Although it is much better than it was in my youth, I still automatically place people in categories...God is our only true judge, he is the only one who knows the desires in each of our hearts, he is the one who knows the full uncut story in each of our lives, I am so thankful that when Jesus was on that cross, suffering and giving his life for ours that he did not judge, I am so thankful that he did not look down upon the masses and make a mental note that "fat female spirits" should not receive the blessing of his sacrifice! He looked down upon each persons spirits and died for them! If he did not judge even in his death who are we to try and judge in our life? Often times I have been introduced to a person and automatically thought I knew their stories by maybe their appearance or just he way they presented themselves only to get to know them and think, wow, this is a person I really would like to have in my life...I am guilty! If you find yourself judging, stereotyping, being prejudiced, looking down on people, ....etc....today is the day to make a fresh start....repent for doing it and move forward giving each person a chance! Don't let what you deem as the "norm" take you away from someone who God may need for you to have in your life! One phrase that always smacks me in the face when I do make unfounded opinions is if you are pointing a finger at someone there are 3 fingers pointing back at you! Let God be the judge, he has proclaimed to be THE JUDGE, why are we trying to do his job?  Today I will let go of preconceptions, I will not worry about what others are doing or not doing, I will worry about me, I will not point fingers, I will not pass judgement, I will look at all with the love I have in my heart and will let them be responsible for themselves! God is amazing, he gives us so many gifts that we don't even know about, he is the only way to the eternities I am jumping in to his wagon and going to ride on his robe tails to the place he has laid for me in heaven!  I hope you will as well:) May this day be peace filled for you, may whatever has been heavy on your heart be lifted and carried with assistance by our Father in heaven, may you lift prayer in the name of Jesus Christ any time you feel yourself slipping throughout the day, asking God thorough Christ's beautiful name to give you strength, to give you guidance, and most of all to continue to give you his love! Prayers lifted for all of the ones who requested special specific prayer yesterday, please know the circle of prayer is strong and growing stronger each day, we will pray for your loved ones, for the ones suffering loss, the ones standing vigil over a sick loved one, for those suffering mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial troubles, for those who are searching for mercy and grace. We ask God this day to bless each of us abundantly, hear the desires of our hearts and fill us with his peace and calm. In Jesus' name we ask these thanksgivings, amen! Have a beautiful, magical, smile filled day:) 

I found this great lesson on "judging" if you care to explore deeper!
http://www.gospelgazette.com/gazette/2006/jun/page3.htm