Good Sunday evening to all, I pray your day has been a good one, and that you have had time for YOU and for the ones you love. I had a long conversation with my Megan this afternoon and her shower was a smashing success, I think baby Chalmers will be a love spoiled little man!
In prayer this evening I thanked God for answering my prayer that my daughter have a nice baby shower and that she feel the love that so many have for her. I have fretted since Thursday when my travel plans got quashed and have been so heavy hearted and quick to cry at the fact that I could not be there with her. I am so thankful and ask special blessings for Derek's mom Lynn and Megan's step mom Cheryl for doing all that they did to make this such a special day for my baby. Thank you Father for allowing my girl and my unborn grandson to feel the love you so graciously give. Father I ask you to bless all of those who come and share in prayer with us, allow them to see the miracles that we see so often that come from the power of prayer, allow them miracles in areas where they feel there is no hope, allow them your light when they only see dark and allow them peace where there has been only chaos. Father I thank you for bringing me through the last few days and again for allowing me to feel and see the love my child has for me, I guess it is true I will learn for a long as I live and to you God I give all praise and glory for this. I ask you to continue to bless the young man who has suffered so with the abscess and fluid on his brain, prayers have been answered and although he still has a long road to healing he is on his way and with your grace he will make a full and total recovery, we praise you Father for bringing the lady with the liver transplant through her storm and allowing her to begin to get stronger and begin to heal, we continue to ask you to lay your hands upon her and allow her body to continue to accept the liver. Father we stand amazed at the wonderful answers to prayers, at your mercy and your love. Father I ask for calm, comfort and peace for all in the name of our Lord and Savoir, Jesus Christ. Amen.
I came across this cute little picture and this wonderful writing and wanted to share...I shall endure with enough of His love to sustain me. In accepting and believing that the best is yet to come.
To Endure
I had so many things I wrote down as they popped into my head. Things I wanted to share with you.
I should know better.
Not only do I lose the notes, but storing anything in my head is like throwing something down a well.
I don't even hear the splash.
So, I just sat down and said, "God. Tell me what to write about."
I heard "endure."
That seems to be a theme this week for me and so many others who have responded to my recent messages.
Endure in the dictionary is defined as, "to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding."
I am smiling as I write this because endure and sustain are so much a part of my life.
It goes along so well with my idea of "enough."
To endure pain, loss or suffering, all we need to sustain us is simply "enough."
So it is with all things in life.
Over the last two days I happened to see older couples walking hand in hand together.
A fairly common thing to see, you might say. At that moment though I needed to see it. Perhaps I was thinking about love and getting older.
II speak of enduring love, enough to sustain me in those last years of the long sunset of my life.
I always try to comment to people when I see something that touches my heart. Regrettably the first day I didn't.
Yesterday I made it a point to stop the couple and tell them how wonderful I thought it was.
"I love seeing couples our age still holding hands," I said.
He looked up at me with the grin of a Cheshire cat and said, "She has to hold my hand. I tend to wander off!"
Enduring old age.
At times in life we sometimes are so overwhelmed that the idea of enduring any of it seems all too lofty an ideal.
We are sinking in the muck and believe only that we cannot survive it all.
When I look back at my own life it seems I can count a number of times I felt just like that.
But look. Here I am. I endured. I survived. I made it this far.
How?
With enough hope to sustain me. Enough love to make me believe I am worthy.
There is nothing in or of this world that can crush hope. There is nothing in or of this world that can stop love.
Hope and Love are not of this world.
"He that is in me is greater than he that is in the world."
I shall endure with enough of His love to sustain me. In accepting and believing that the best is yet to come.
Matthew 24:13 "But he who stands firm to the end will be saved."
That means you, too.
You have His Word on it.
