To Bloom or Not To Bloom

Followed by whistling and Jamaican beats... This was a favorite song of mine many years ago.  "Here is a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don't worry be happy In every life we have some trouble When you worry you make it double Don't worry, be happy......" source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/dontworrybehappylyrics.html However fun the song is, it does have some Biblical truth to it. Matthew 6:25-34 tells us that we have no reason for worry.... unless.... 25   “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28  “And why do you worry abou...

Just wanted to share a message that has been repeated to me through many songs, scriptures, stories and teachings over the last couple of weeks. When seeking God to hear his voice and his word for my life at this time, I have continuously been led to three specific characters in the Word; Abraham, Moses and Ezekiel. Abraham had a promise from God, but saw only old age in the physical realm and his own wife laughed at the thought of bearing children. Moses was called by God, but saw only his physical short comings and his own people rejected him. When he led the Israelites to the edge of the sea, yet again, there was the impossible ahead of him. Ezekiel was led to prophesy to a valley full of dried up bones to rise up and breathe. In the natural, we can only see the impossibilities, the dry bones, the death in our own lives and circumstances. But GOD leads us to the impossible and then, like a pop quiz, asks us, "can these bones live?” Then He stands and waits for our response. Wh...

Whew... breathe . Sometimes, I just have to remind myself to breathe. Sounds silly, I know, but in this place, sometimes you forget to do the most basic of things to keep yourself alive.... breathe.   I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't cry so much in front of the kids... I would keep a "lid on it," so to speak. But of course, whenever you make a resolution, it's the first 24 hours that seems to pull out all of the punches. I have cried a lot tonight. And, of course, right after I wrote my last blog about not looking back but pushing forward.... well, I get thrown back and moving forward just seems impossible.  I am just keeping it real here, folks. No one can go through a life altering blow without injury.  The car has crashed, and we are all coming out of it alive, but forever altered. I think that I sat in the smoldering car a little too long. My injuries have me crawling and sometimes just slithering away. I can't seem to stay away from...

"If Satan can keep you looking back, he can keep you from moving forward. It's a new day. Press on ." Dr. Tony Evans What does pressing on look like? And if this is a "new day" and a "new year".... why does it look and feel so much like the old one? Accepting this new role as a single... single mom... is the challenge of accepting many things that are completely beyond my control. One of them being, accepting the simple fact, that I am not in control of anything.  Sometimes the car turns to the left, sometimes it doesn't. The ice maker... well, doesn't make anything. I have no idea what the next day will bring... more bills, more worries, more heartache???  Or, could this "new day, new year" actually bring new good things?  There's "the rub." I don't know, and I have no control over any of it.  I do my best and the rest... well, it's up to Him. Jeremiah 29:11 has come to my attention several times to...