Life is tough y’all!

it’s been an emotionally heavy week around here

sister nurse lost her precious father in law to cancer early Sunday morning

he was precious,

Loving and kind,

generous, meek

and genuinely loved by many.

He will be dearly & sincerely missed

Sister and her hub are the first of us to go through the loss of a parent

it’s been heartbreaking

on many levels

especially for my nephew

he’s little, and tender  and doesn’t understand

we’ve talked and listened

hugged and encouraged him as best we know how

and He’ll be fine

I just know it

because God is

“close to the broken hearted”

some other dear friends of ours

are facing some scary, scary stuff

preterm labor

surgery

cancer.

Life is tough y’all.

CAN I GET AN AMEN??

what do YOU DO when life’s sends you a quick left hook

or a swift one to the gut?

the kind of punch that leaves you breathless.

or MAD!

or so sad you feel as though you may suffocate??

that leaves your head spinning & you don’t know what to do?

or think?

or how to feel?

I was given the privilege this morning to join some sweet sisters in Christ

in a time of fellowship and prayer

my hope and prayer

was to encourage them

when we find ourselves in the midst of grave uncertainty,

focus on what we DO KNOW:

GOD IS SOVEREIGN.

next:

we have a choice to make:

#1-To present ourselves as a living sacrifice to our Maker,

I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship. Rom. 12:1

or

#2- “crawl off the altar” & run when life gets tough.

which have you chosen to live by today?

some days are easy to be “found faithful”

other days…..

not so much

so how can we

on those knock-the-wind out of you days

be “found faithful”??

someone defined “faith” as “one step at a time on a dark path”

sound scary? yes.

hard? yes.

absolutely necessay if we want to please Him?? YES.

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. HEB 11:6

I ask tonight that you join me as I

pray without ceasing

for my dear, sweet friends and their families

as they

“take one step at a time down their dark paths”

trusting in the only One worthy.