choosing happy

today has been a tough day emotionally...well, it started last night...waves of emotions...and so to think of a thankfulness...well, it's tough...

but i am trying to learn from the children of israel in their ridiculously long trek through the desert to the promised land...that every time i come to a place that seems hopeless, discouraging, fearful, etc...if i murmer and complain, am i not risking being sent back out in the desert to wander a little longer? maybe not, but it sure seems that way...

so i am trying to release all of these situations to God...to the One who makes a way through the waters...the One who can lead me through on dry land...

and i am trying to remember that pharoah said "NO" a lot before he let the people go and even then he chased them down...but God had the final word and made a way...

so today, i am thankful for a God who makes a way in the desert...to the One who calls those things which are not as though they were...to the One who has the final say in it all...

.::FEARLESS::.

http://www.crosspoint.tv/media/better-days/

this is a good one....click on the "fearless" topic...week 4

more little happies...

yesterday:: having a gal who i taught in various capacities since she was about 2 yrs old come running across the room when she saw me, jump into my arms, wrapping her legs around my waist and just hug me tight for a while (at around 12 yrs old, she is nearly as tall as i am now)...it meant so much to be missed and loved, not because of ego as much as impact...to know that i had left such an impression with her...that she knew she was loved and was free to just be herself...it was precious...

today:: grateful when remembering my magical trip to nyc a few years back for the macy's thanksgiving day parade...every part of that trip exceeding my wildest dreams...that's a special and treasured memory...

playing catch-up::little happies

yesterday::that God knows what is going on in my story, even though it looks like things are falling apart...

today::thankful for answered prayers and hope...

SO needed to hear this!!!

http://www.joycemeyer.org/BroadcastHome.aspx?video=The_Silent_Years_–_Pt_2


"while i'm here going through this mess, little do i know it, but God is coming"...

"you may be in the biggest mess you've ever been in in your life and you may not can see God coming, but honey you will know for sure when he's been there!" ...

"i can't tell you exactly when, but i can tell you it will probably happen suddenly" ...

"don't quit and don't give up...every day of your life when you get up say...i've got a suddenly coming in my life today" ...

"God likes to do things in secret...paul and silas were in jail and at midnite::suddenly!...the woman with the issue of blood, bled for 15 yrs and then::suddenly...and you've got a suddenly, too!" ...

"in the regions of mystery...in darkness...he puts his hand on us...he forms us and shapes us...you don't know what God is doing right now...but i can tell you God is working and the birth will come...and i might add the worst pain is right before you get the biggest breakthrough!" ...

today's little happy...

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&id=e902db98b0 (you will have to copy and paste this link...sorry)

grateful for the "and peter" moments in my life...the times when i feel like a failure...like i've made a mess of things or that things are in shambles around me and everything is going wrong and it is beyond my abilities to make it right...

and God comes in with a story of resurrection...a story too wonderful to be true...a story of death becoming life and he says "hurry...go tell the disciples...and peter..."

especially peter...cause he needs to know that nothing in this life is irreparable...because God has conquered death...is anything too hard for him?!

today's little happy

grateful for getting to talk to my sister-friend katy~* last night as i was driving back from nashville...it was a much needed catch-up time for us...