Random Thoughts

Greetings Readers!
I hope this blog entry finds you blessed. I am doing well. 2010 has been one excitement after another thus far. As of today, I think I've been in church more days than I've been home. (How is that possible?!!) I've been reflecting on some things--2009 was a challenge. It was a year of change, a year of disappointments, a year that stretched me in ways I did not know that I could stretch--and not break. I learned a lot about myself. I cried a lot more than in previous years--but I laughed a lot as well.

In 2009, I began to see some people for who they really are. I found that certain people close to me can not be trusted. I can't trust them with my feelings or my emotions, my money, my time, or my materials. Those people really disappointed me in '09. I thought their character was much more solid...what a let down. But I'm moving on.

I found God faithful in 2009. I still find Him faithful.

I've found that I need to reorder my priorities. There are some things I'd learned in childhood that I now need to forget---so that I can be taught the right way. (Also known as renewing the mind! )

I find that prayer changes things....and me.

I'm finding in '10 that there are some things (and some people) that I simply must let go. I can't look back and I can't tighten my grip on them because it's holding me back from destiny. In order for me to move forward, I must let go. Oh, I may mourn the loss--that's only normal. But, I can not receive the blessing God's promised if my fist is tightly clinched. I've got to open my hand in order for God to place something in it.

Friends, at this time I don't know the reason for these random thoughts. I hope that I'll be able to look back on them in a couple of months and find that I really wrote something profound or jumpstarted something in my life. Perhaps I'll find out that someone else has been helped by my random brain calisthenics.

Whatever the reason, my peeps...please keep your heads up...stay prayed up....because when you look up you'll find that you are looking to the hills from whence comes our help. All of our help comes from the Lord.

Be blessed and not stressed.

simply beautiful
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