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!

Left or Right????? YOU CHOOSE!!!

Good morning and happy Wednesday, 45 degrees, cotton ball clouds are lazily drifting across the backdrop of the indescribable blue sky, the sun is just beginning to peak atop the mountain, a mild breeze is brushing against my skin, the birds are chirping in harmony...a perfect morning for me with one exception...I forgot to buy coffee yesterday so my pot sits empty this morning:) I have choices, am I going to go inside, get dressed (out of my sweats, no I am not sitting naked), back the car from the garage, drive to the market and purchase coffee or am I going to go to the fridge, and get my second choice, diet pepsi, and resume in the yard where each morning I sit and enjoy the world awaking? Am I going to put off the things I get most pleasure from to accommodate my need for coffee, am I going to say it is a horrible morning because one thing out of the rest is askew? How many times have I said..."it would have been perfect, BUT"...."IF only..., it would have been perfect" If we lived in a perfect world, why would we have need to desire our final resting place to be in heaven, why would we try and live Christ like if things were so perfect here? As long as we are here on earth, there will be circumstances that will be less than perfect, there will be times when nothing seems to go right, there will be days when the covers over your head will be much more appealing than the alternative of getting up and facing the day! We will run into brick walls, we will be deterred by road blocks, we will come to  mountains that we will have to climb to continue on our way. No one is exempt from these things, no one was given the "perfect" pass, we are here to learn, we are here to make choices, we are here to figure it out, we are here to validate ourselves in God's eyes. He needs to see how we are going to handle adversity, he needs to see how tough we are, he needs to see who we are! So instead of allowing myself to become upset this morning, I took my second choice, I am now sitting, writing this message with my diet pepsi by my side and am still enjoying the wonderful morning that He has made for me! The way I look at it, satan wanted me to become upset, he wanted my love for the morning cup to overpower my prayer time, he wanted to deter me from my morning chat with my Father in Heaven, why???? firstly he does not like me chatting with him as I do, secondly, each day I depend upon God to give me a message that will touch a heart in need, if satan could deter me this morning, he may have stopped me from doing this! How many times do you get up on Sunday morning intent on going to church only to be hit from all directions with reasons not to go???? How many times have you bowed your head to pray and found that your mind was running so fast there was no way you could quiet it long enough to chat with God? How many times have you sat down to read the bible only to find that there are a thousand things that need to be done right then and the bible gets closed and pushed to the side until "later" how often are you prompted to call and check on someone, or to stop by to see someone and other things come up and you put it off? I cannot tell you how many times in the day these things happen to me, but when they do happen, I just laugh because I know that I am heading in the right direction and satan is going to throw anything he can find out there to stop me. So I continue on my way, I literally will stop what I am doing and ask satan to get away from me, to leave me alone, I profess to him, I am not interested in you, I do not want you in my life, I will not allow you to take me away from God so your time around me is in vane! After I do this, I find that my time gets quiet, that I am able to concentrate on my desires and I am able to hear the still quiet voice. Everyday we will be faced with pushes and pulls, we will have to decide how we are going to handle interruptions, we will be tested as to how we react when things are not "perfect" Negative and Positive will be within our reaches and we will have to choose which one we will use. If the negative always had an electrical shock waiting at the end of it and you knew it was going to knock you to the floor, would you continue to grab it? If there were definitive roads signs one pointing to heaven the other to hell, would you have to stop and think?  In the mormon faith, there is a symbol CTR, which stands for" choose the right", if we choose the right, good things will come of it, and naturally if we choose the wrong, well we all know how that ends up! This day I pray that we are all given a strong sense of right and wrong, of positive and negative, of attitude! Today I pray that we will be faced with the same challenges that we always are but that our attitudes are focused on the good and not the bad, that when satan comes calling God will be the one that answers the door, I pray that we are mindful of the fact that unless satan is allowed in by us, he cannot penetrate our "bubble" I pray that you recognize when he is working his hardest on you and that you deny him entrance into your life. God is amazing, he will never guide us down the wrong road, he will never leave us on the wrong side of the tracks, he will never turn his back on us and he will never ever give us anything but love. May this day be the day we are all aware that if we choose the right, when we get to heaven's gate it will swing wide open and we will be welcomed with open arms. Love to you in the name of our savior Jesus Christ:)