Patience...

³⁶ For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise...   Hebrews 10:36

Ah, there's that word again...patience...I am getting better at it but that scripture really says it all.  The key is to LISTEN to what God is trying to tell us. Discern is the word used these days and at first it really annoyed me.  Discern.  Weird.  But I have learned to embrace that word when it comes to God and his whisperings to me. Nudgings really.  We have to be aware of His walk with is in our life. Are we letting Him walk with us?  Are we seeking His help and guidance?  Cuz He is there...we are not alone in this amazing thing we call our life!  Just use your "ears to hear and eyes to see"! We tend to make life harder than it needs to be.  We have the ultimate "call a friend"!  He has all the answers for us.  Lets accept His gift and make our life what He has planned for us!!!  I'm ready...how  about you???  Have a blessed week my friends!!!🙏 

No worries!

²¹ Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
    but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 19:21

I have a decision looming in my near future. I can worry  about it or I can think about it.  There is a difference. Worrying says I don't trust God.  Thinking says I do. I learned long ago that worrying is a waste of time.  Read the verse above.  Nuff said. Worry all you want. Because to worry is a concious decision you make. Your decide to worry.  Well how about deciding to trust God?  The thing about God's decision is that is is always the right one for you. Plain and simple.  Our decision on the other hand comes with toooooo much baggage and we often make them based on faulty intel.  Oh gosh...trusting God is such a no-brainer. Seriously!  But that doesn't mean you don't have to do your part.  Make good decisions every day and live your life with the joy and confidence and peace of mind that comes with knowing we are the children of God and abide in His love and care every minute of every day.  To quote the Aussies...No worries!  AMEN and AMEN!  T*A*I*S! 

Am I Aware?

¹² Ears that hear and eyes that see—  the Lord has made them both.  Proverbs 20:12

We have both eyes to see and ears to hear...but, and this is a big but...do we use them?  Or do we get so wrapped up in me me me that we ignore the opportunities presented to us to witness to some one in need?  And witness isn't thumping your Bible or standing on the street corner swinging your arm heavenward.  It is seeing opportunities to help some one, to bless them with a kind word, a smile, a quick prayer...whatever the situation seems to need. But you have to be aware of those times,  use your eyes to see and ears to hear.  Also it is the reaction to the nudge God gives us sometimes to do something we don't understand until it is done.  Then we say "AHA! That was you God!"  Praise God!!! For these moments. You don't have to look for them. Just allow yourself to be aware of what goes on around you.  Then "your eyes will see and your ears will hear".  

Words

Proverbs 15:1-4

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

OK.  I am posting this for myself. I freely admit it.  Not proudly, mind you...  Words that come out of our mouths are gone from us, but they hit someone else and we never know until its too late how it affected them.  And it is forever THERE.  Man, that's tough. On the other hand you also never know when a kind word will completely change some ones day or even life.  Think about something some one said to you in the past in comfort, praise or just encouragement.  Maybe just a smile when you needed it.  That person probably doesn't remember it but. YOU DO!  That's what's important.  If we can remember that BEFORE we speak...ah, that's the trick.  I continue to work at it.   Words should be like gifts wrapped in big silver bows.  And I love gifts...giving and receiving.    >^.^< 

Listening...

³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?.......³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:“For your sake we face death all day long;   we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^[j]

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor deamons,^[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.   Romans 8:31-32. 8:35-39. 

Discernment is not a bargain with God. It is not saying, "Hey God, how about I do (whatever) and you  do (insert bargaining tool) for me?"  Doesn't work that way. First of all HE does what is best best for is...ALWAYS...Without fail. Our problem is that what is best for us is not always what we want. So discernment means sitting back and listening to Our Heavenly Father. (And you know me and  listening!  Not one of my better traits. However, I am really learning it has sooo many advantages-none the least of which is that I get into less troule!). Just as with our children and grandchildren we want what is best for them. Doesn't always make us popular but there you are!  One of my grandsons said the most wonderful thing to me a few weeks ago. "Nana, do you know why I love to come to your house?"  I said, " because you love me?"  He said, " well that too.  But you let us do most stuff unless its going to hurt us"!  He couldn't have said anything to make me happier!  Just apply that to God and how he feels about you. Discernment=freedom!  Once you listen and discern what He wants for you the decision is made!  Freedom to move on with our life and know it is blessed and we are 2 B2BS!!!  To blessed to be stressed!  Amen...That is all...over and out!  Have a blessed week...listening.  T*A*I*S! 

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 
 Proverbs 3:5.  

No worrying. Worry takes time and energy and focus...all of which is wasted when spent on worrying. And worrying tends to let our own blessings slide by without our enjoying them.       Holy Moly!  No can do!   My Mother was a great worrier. And I do mean great!  "Black Belt in  Worrying" great.  Daddy was not.  I learned early on to give Mother one thing to worry about and then she focused on that and the little things slipped by. Worked great!  But nothing slips by God.  Seriously. I've tried. (silly girl!) However, worry is not one of my things. I have learned to go to prayer and release whatever I think is a problem and move on. There's that thinking thing again that gets us in trouble. Rarely do we have all the information on whatever it is we are want to worrying about. (And make no mistake...worrying is a choice) We jump to the "glass half empty" attitude and assume it's doom and gloom. And the worrying begins.  UGH!  Not to say some things don't give me pause...But I don't really worry.  I try to decide if I can do anything to help and usually the answer is: PRAY!  Trust in The Lord.  Lean not on my own understanding.  Do I think I know more than God?  Forget about it... Turn it over to the only ONE  that can take care of it correctly. Then move on with your life and enjoy the blessings HE has in store for you today.  And have a blessed day.  That is all...over and out!    >^.^<