Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank HIM for all He has done. Then you will experience God's peace which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
~Philippians 4:6-7.
The past several months have been some of the best of my life. I have been making many changes in my life and daily routine that have brought much peace and happiness. I have been on top of the world and enjoying life. Wow what an amazing feeling and how awesome it is! Then I noticed a shift; not sure what happened...I tried to talk myself out of it, reason with myself, continued reading my Bible, praying to God asking that he reveal where I need to be to carry out HIS plan for my life and for Him to give me a burning desire to live out the plan He has for me. I would like to tell you that I have it figured out!! These past few weeks have been very challenging for me. I found my job has been cut to half time, I've applied for other positions but not obtained full time employment yet, and then a colleague was killed while running one morning before work while training for a marathon. She has a beautiful family; a husband and 4 children. Her oldest daughter will be graduating from high school next week and going to college in the fall. They had many plans and much life to look forward to and then in an instant it all changed. It has left me feeling sad and melancholy but I have started looking at my little issues and thanking God that I have my family, I have a job, my husband, my children, grandchildren and many wonderful things to be grateful for. I have been praying and praying for God to show me where I need to be and what he wants me to be doing. I don't know what the answer is yet but today when I opened my computer this is the first thing I saw:
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank HIM for all He has done. Then you will experience God's peace which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
~Philippians 4:6-7.
It gave me a peace and let me know I need to quit worrying, give it to God and quit taking it back. How many times do we pray, give HIM our troubles and then before he has time to do anything we take it back and start worrying again. I will do little things I can and turn the control and trouble over to HIM which gives me peace. I will praise HIM for how far he has brought me and be grateful for what I do have. Today I chose to live in peace and faith knowing He loves me. I pray you will do the same.
God Bless,
Nena
