Better late than never!

   

     Good morning to all, sorry for being late in getting my blog up this morning, try as I may, I could not go to sleep last night, night turned in to 3 a.m. and I awoke only a short time ago! I have never been one to sleep late so this is very odd for me! I know there is no set time for my blog to be posted, but I like to get it up and running prior to many of you going to work. I like to think many of us share a cup of coffee with my blog and it in a sense helps to get the morning off on a good note!
     The morning sunlight on my face feels so good today,there is a big breeze and the sky has not one cloud, only pale blue as far at the eye can see. In prayer this morning, I said my usual prayers and was just on my specific prayer request that came in over night when I realized how much I look forward to the request, like a kid at Christmas I open each request with wonder and excitement, I feel so much honor when I am asked to pray for a specific need or problem. Many of the prayers are similar, but each and every one is different, if that makes any sense! Each of us is different so even though we share like needs for prayer they still must be prayed with the vision of the one in need in my heart! When I first started getting a multitude of prayer request someone said to me, "don't let this become overwhelming to you" I know that as long as I have breath in me, I will not become overwhelmed, I have so many who come and pray with me each day, I know this is the direction my life is supposed to take and I stand here  today to tell you, if you come with a prayer request, it will be said, sealed and lifted up to Jesus Christ marked special delivery to our Father in Heaven!
     Today I pray that you will put on your "grace" hat, that you will walk with your back straight and your head held high, that you will have a little tilt toward the sky and that when people look at you they see someone they feel blessed to be around! Be a friend today, let go of your worries, they will still be there when you slump your shoulders and are no longer looking up! Well let me think about that, the more positive your energy the more positive energy that collects around you...maybe, just maybe, when you slump your shoulder and cease to hold your head up high....your problems, troubles, and worries won't seem nearly as large, they won't seem that hard to conquer, heck some of them may have disappeared while you were walking in "grace" Today walk in a fashion that others know that you are in the footsteps of Christ, walk without falter and let others see that in walking with God you are graceful and allow them to see what he is doing for you! Let them see that your faith overweighs your toils, that your belief overshadows your pain and that with God you are unbeatable! Don't give negative a chance today....tell it to get behind you or you will mow it down! TODAY IS A POSITIVE DAY, positive brings positive and I promise you are going to like it! One day I posted a message on facebook, it was on  the wall of someone who was wallowing on the "pity pot" the response to what I posted was "well now, aren't you just a ray of sunshine up a dog's butt!" and to that I responded, "YES, I would rather be a ray of sunshine up his butt that the alternative:) " Allow people to see the "light" that comes from you...no nay, nay, nay, today...only yeah, yeah, yeah! I love each of you and know that if we all band together, if we stand in the footsteps of our Savior, if we pray together that there is no way satan's army can even come close to winning this battle we call life!!! God bless each and every one of you with his love and strength! Live for this day, love for this day and laugh for this day...tomorrow is a million miles away!

Give it up~~~

 
 Good morning and happy Friday, awww the start of the weekend:) It is 45 here in Utah this morning, there is a different crispness in the breeze, the wind is coming from the north and a little uncomfortable to sit outside, so I sit, writing from behind the glass this morning, I cannot hear the birds sing their songs of joy, but I can see the brilliant blue sky, with not a cloud floating by, I can see the gentle sway of the branches on the stately trees in my yard, I can sit in awe at the beauty of the day that is waking up all around me, therefore I can see the love that God has put into the making for me to enjoy:)
   In fellowship with several people yesterday I stood amazed at how some people seem to delight in holding on to garbage, at how they cling to drama, the run back to misery time and time again. I sat and listened to the stories of their lives and what was troubling them, what they were desperately seeking prayer over and their stories were the same repeated prayers for mercy that they had said basically all of their adult lives. I know I must have looked like a confused goon several times in our chats as I could not believe that although they may have changed partners, the story was the same, the prayers for mercy were the same. It seems that we all tend to hang on to things that are "comfortable", it seems we leave one person and turn to another very much like the one who has caused us so much grief. I think in my life I did this because I felt that I could do not better, I continuously chose the same type of man to be in my life, just a different name. In looking at it now, it was all I knew and it was all I thought that I was worthy of . I chatted with a person who continued to let her grown child condemn her, abuse her, dishonor her , thus she continued to allow herself to be crushed by these actions even though she was the very one allowing the "crush"! We allow people to walk on us, use us as door mats, kick us, take advantage of us...etc...When I asked each person to look at the pattern they were living, they had no idea that they were even doing this! Defenses were thrown up like shields of protection, excuses oozed from their lips with failed attempts as to "why" they allowed the things they did. Never once in the conversations was there mention of our savior or our heavenly father, oh wait, yes there was..."I don't know what I have done to make God mad at me, but I cannot catch a break" Really, REALLY, do you think God does this to us??? I tend to lean in the direction that we do this to ourselves. If you were standing in front of a hot skillet on the stove and grabbed the handle without a potholder, it would burn right??? Well honestly can you tell me you would grab the handle again without first protecting your hand??? I am sure the answer from each of you is NO, why?? because you did not enjoy the burn that is left there in the palm of your hand, you do not want to endure that pain again and your eyes have been opened to the fact that you must protect your hand before you reach out and grab the handle again. Once burned you learned a lesson! If we can learn something that quickly, literally one time of hurt and we know what we must do to protect ourselves. Why then do we insist upon allowing people to burn us time after time, why do we keep reaching for that hot handle time after time? Why can't we just give it up? Fall down "on bended knees" and ask God to bless us with the knowledge if we continue to grab the hot handle we will hurt, we will burn, we will be scarred. If the life you are allowing right now is not a happy one, if you continue to allow people to abuse you, to disrespect you, to dishonor you, time and time again, where will you end up? I am seeing a scarred person who pretty soon cannot even feel the pain because the burns have left scars so thick that the inside is numb to the hurt on the outside! Today I pray that if you have fallen into this situation, if you have allowed your soul to be numbed by the ravages of the pain and hurt, if you have let your spirit wither and dry up because you think you are not worthy of better, I pray God blesses you with jolts of energy throughout your body, I pray that he plant a seed in you that will help you to open your eyes and see, I pray that he will help you pick yourself off, that he will dust you off and if need be that he push you in the right direction. We all are worthy of kind, gentle, honest, love. Each of us is worthy of happiness and joy in our lives, today I ask God to shine a light onto you heart, to light a fire in your soul, to help you find your voice and literally force the breath from your lungs forcing words of power and conviction from you....GIVE IT UP, make a decision today that you refuse to let anyone abuse you again, that you...with God's assistance are going to take a stand and with one foot in front of the other move forward...refuse to let anyone be rude to you, to let anyone make you cry, or to make you feel lesser of a person...stand in your beauty, yes it is there, God made each of us beautiful, we may be like an "old chunk of coal" but there is a diamond in there just begging to get out. Begin today the journey out of the hell you are living and see what beauty is waiting for you...GIVE IT UP, give your troubles over to God and let him come alive in you. Don't ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. If you are miserable in your world today, I pray that you  figure out what you need to change, ask our heavenly father the best plan in moving forward, get on your knees and listen to his still quiet voice, feel his hand gently begin to nudge you forward. He will never lead you wrong, he will always hold your hand in the journey and soon you will be standing straight and tall, feeling better than you have in years and you will be living! I love you all, I know that change is difficult, I know that leaving our comfort zone, even if it is an uncomfortable one, is very scary... Today I choose to evaluate things in my life to ensure that I am not just grabbing yet another hot handle, but that I have learned valuable lessons and am walking the straight and narrow and living in the  world that the King of Kings has made for me:) Stand tall today, have faith that God is walking right there beside you, lift your heads to the "SON" and begin to see YOU in all of your beauty! The journey may be tough, but you've got the "Mighty, Mighty" in your corner, set your sites way up high and soar!!!