Legacy

All to often we loose "legends" "heroes", very iconic people in time and in a way that's not so iconic, in a way that is heart breaking, bitter, hard to swallow. It seems that after they are gone we talk about all their struggles their difficulties in life their struggles with fortune or fame. Most of them all searching for the same things, happiness, a sense of belonging, and to be loved. Money can buy things and in the moment it can feel good but it wears off quickly, until you find something new, drugs often numb but only for a bit, and how is life happy when you can't feel it. We don't belong on earth this is a temporary home, their is only one true way to know happiness and love and that is through Christ. Some people seem to have nothing but its what's in their heart and they have it all, or some seem to have everything on the outside but on the inside they are empty. Pray for these legends and heroes that they to might know Christ and his love that they will learn to let him lead and they will follow. Whitney Houston is one of the many lost in just the last few years. I pray for peace and comfort for her family that they find joy where it seems difficult. Pray for those around you that they find happiness, and love through Christ above!

What path will you choose?

Working at the juvenile center I often ask my youth "what path will you choose" the straight course, with a couple bumps along the way, the path that takes you into the dark woods, the one over the mountains, throught the waters, or maybe you will even wander off path. Many have ideas of where they want to get and what they want but pay no mind to the path that will lead them there. Well 1st thing I think of is the song by Miley Cyrus "Its the Climb" but at work we use the story to ithaca. Okay so if you know what either of these mean it talks about how yes where we are going is important and what we want has meaning but its the journey that gets us there that has such great meaning, the journey molds us who we are is because of where we have come through. There is one kid particularly from the beginning of my time at the juvenile center that I remember having this conversation with, intact we sat down and drew this cheesy may with a castle on the right side of the paper and on the left, where he was there, we then drew a bunch of paths and on them put what he could do, or if he stayed on the same path he was choosing, or made changes. At the end where the castle we listed his dreams and goals. Now I would like to tell you that he is living his dreams and the path he chose that night he stuck with. Well he didnt. For a while he did, he was doing great, I would hear of his progress and I was proud of him. But some where along the way he wandered off that path. One might say he began a path of destruction... Does this mean his journey is over, he can't reach his castle, can't get to ithaca??? Or does this just mean that his castle may change a bit, but he can still get back on path to his castle of dreams and goals, certainly he can, he may have come off course, taken a path that was not in his plans but his story is not over. So at times you may feel you have fallen off path or maybe your so set on your idea of exactly how your journey should look that you don't trust God and his journey for you and in doing so that's when you make your own path, fall off track and the journey changes. He (God) has chosen the perfect path for you, sometimes it doesn't match your view of what you feel it should look like but trust him and follow his path. Psalms 33:8 The Lord says "I will guide the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. Psalms 25:8 The Lord is good and does what is right; he shows the proper path to those who go astray.

In His Time...

Many times we pray for things, stuff, life changes and when it doesn't happen just then we think God didn't hear us or he isint answering our prayers. Then things happen and we think its a miracle, or what an amazing coincidence when in reality all things happen in His time. We think we know what's best for us we think we know path we are suppose to take but are we looking at these thing in our time or His time. When we pray to God do we demand now, do we set time restraints and limits on our hearts desires on our prayers or do we let God know of our hearts desires and leave it in his time, because he has the perfect timing, he has a plan set out for our life, he knows our next step before we make it. Often when I think about this topic it makes me think of the song by Garth Brooks, unanswered prayers. Sometimes we pray for things buoy God knows he has much bigger plans for us, better plans. So killed the song says, some of Gods Greatest Gifts are unanswered prayers. The Bible says in Psalms 40:1, “I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.” The Bible says in Isaiah chapter 40:31, “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Life and Love

Ever since I was a young girl (wow I almost feel like I was about to break into song, you know which one...) Like many girls I have dreamt of finding true love. I fell in love with My oldest daughters father and eventually that went south and ended in abuse... But it was over a matter of time, so for quite a bit afterwords I had a distortion on what I thought Love was and how it responded. I then began to associate things with love that intact sometimes, often had nothing to do with love. I then went through life and loved people and thought because I loved them, ahh this could work. Then there was my most recent ex, together for almost 4 years, I wanted certain things, I was willing to settle for less and I thought this was normal. Well it may be the norm but that's because people don't know and value their own self worth and so they settle. But often we think when we love and are in love that a relationship will just work, if it is meant to be it will be and that is where the miscponception lies, it will be easy to love someone, you will be in love but the whole idea of joking two seperate lives together to make them work will take work, some pieces will seem easy to put together and some will really take some work. But can these two lives join to make a beautiful picture like the finished product of a puzzle, certainly. It's really like that saying its not finding someone you can live with, its finding someone that you cannot live without. Sometimes your paths may cross and the time might not be right, maybe someday. Or maybe God has a better plan. It's better to follow your heart risk it breaking, than to never risk it and never love at all. In every type of relationship I have had I have learned from. I have taken amazing things with me along the way. But don't pass life and love for time lines. Follow your heart, cause its better to have loved than to have never loved at all.