may you drink deep, live well, and pass the cup on to all you can....

happy Monday evening to you all, I have to say I am overwhelmed by all of the hits my blog had today, I broke a record with 400 hits, praise God!! Thank you, thank you, thank you....

In prayer this evening I thanked God for allowing me to have such amazing people in my life, I thanked him for loving me and for understanding me. I thanked him for the blessings in my life, both good and bad, the good is validation that I am on track and the bad keeps me learning and growing. I asked him to bless those in need of healing, and to bless my friend who will hopefully be having her last surgery tomorrow, please pray for my friend's cousin and her great niece who are battling RSV, and for my friend so in need of a new job, bless her that her skills be recognized and that she be selected for the job.  please bless those struggling with finance this day, Lord allow them reprieve and allow them calm that by your hand it will work out and they will be okay. Father I ask for your strength to sustain me, for your peace to take my chaos, for you calm to ease my fear and for your comfort for my pain and I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

I love this little writing and have found that when I do let it flow I feel the warmth of God more prominent. God is so amazing, let him work through you. 

Let It Flow

I used to love to play in the woods near my home when I was a boy. I especially enjoyed sitting by a certain crystal clear mountain stream that flowed musically down the side of a hill. Green moss covered the rocks and made a comfortable seat on either side of it and when I would bend down I could see my own smiling face reflected back at me. I used to love taking a sip of its pure, sweet water. It always tasted like a drink from Heaven. 

Going back in my mind to those carefree days beside those blessed waters reminds me of all the wonderful lessons they taught me. They taught me not to grasp too tightly. If I did the water would seep through my fingers and I would be left with nothing. Instead I learned to let the water flow over my hand and to lift it gently in my cupped palm when I wanted a sip or to water the daises, buttercups, and Queen Anne’s lace that lined the stream’s banks. I learned too that just a few drops of that water helped those flowers to grow healthy and strong. Most of all I learned that I didn’t always have to be doing something to be living. Just sitting by that tiny mountain stream, listening to it gently splash over the rocks, and feeling its peace was all that I needed for a great afternoon. 

That mountain stream is a lot like the river of God’s love that flows through our lives. Just like that stream God’s love can’t be grasped and held tightly. In order to drink from it and experience it we have to let it flow through us and use it to bless the world around us. A few drops of that living water too is all that we need to help us grow better and stronger each day of our lives here. And sometimes it is good to just spend some time sitting quietly by the stream with God and let His peace fill us once again. May you always let God’s loving water flow through your life then. May you drink deep, live well, and pass the cup on to all you can.