Life goes on

My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Psalm 73:26
Some days in the stresses of life it is hard to take a step. I feel like saying just forget it I don't want to do today. My faith is far away and I have an even harder time feeling my Savior near me. My hope for things in the future has turned into hopelessness.
Thank you God that I don't have to live in my own strength. I can draw a sigh as I live life down here on earth, and you hear that sigh and place your hand on me in order to give me your energy where I have none.
Thank you also that when I am dwelling in to much of my feelings, you remind me that the sadness and hopelessness that is within me is not from you. They are from my enemy trying to defeat me, to bring me down to where I think I can't go on.
I remember then that you have already defeated him, and that my heart and soul belong to you alone, and he can't have me.
You are the author of my life, and you know every single thing I am going through, and nothing that I am feeling is surprising to you. You wait, you love, you reach for my hand, and pull me up into your loving arms and tell me to keep going.

Cynthia Mealhow

Chris Tomblin---There's a peace I've come to know though my heart and flesh may fell. There's an anchor for my soul I can say it is well....Jesus has overcome.
....I will rise when He calls my name no more sorrow no more pain...

Nothing else matters

Have you ever experienced a time when you were so hushed by something that is happening that nothing else matters around you. I can say that the moment each of my girls were born, I was feeling hushed and in awe of Gods beauty and blessings. For brief moments I unaware of anything else going on around me. Unfortunately shortly after giving birth like most people I experienced the anxious feeling of what now. A new life in this crazy world is an awesome responsibility.
Life continuing in this world makes me reflect on eternity. Eternity is something most everyone thinks about in their life. Some come to the conclusion that there is the beginning of life, and the end of life, and that is all there is. These people devote their lives to the pursuit of their own happiness and pleasures, but in the end most realize that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy. God wants us to find satisfaction beyond earthly pleasures. He wants us to find the peace of mind that when our time hear on earth is done there is a life with Him in a home more satisfying then any here on this earth.
Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses. Man is time-bound on this earth and there is a time for everything. Read Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 and beyond. If you look it up on crosswalk.com and read it in the different versions you get the full impact of what the book is trying to tell us.
God wants us to have pleasure and joy in our life. He wants us also to think about eternity and judgment. God shall judge everyone and requires an account of what is in our past. Unless we acknowledge God the maker of heaven and earth, the maker of all things that take our breath away (including babies) and render us speechless, we will not see eternity with Him in heaven.
There is hope beyond what we can imagine, hope bigger and better then the most excellent thing we could think about happening to us in this life on this planet earth.

Anna's love

I found out today my niece is getting married and I am happy for her. Of course we all hope and pray that she is making the right decision mainly because the man she has fallen in love with comes with children. Two little ones who need a mommy. My heart belongs to being a wife and mother. Even though my girls are grown now my heart still belongs to motherhood. Of course I want to be the best wife to Scott also and I have enjoyed our time just as a couple. It is the first time in our 27 year marriage that it has been just the two of us. I miss being mommy though and I always will. Being Grandma will be enjoyable, but it will fill different as it should. I stand committed to the belief that being a Godly wife and mommy is the greatest job in the world. I firmly belief that it is what God created women for. So Anna I love you and will pray that God will give you the desires of your heart and He will bless this marriage. It is the greatest and most rewarding job you will ever have even if you continue your education someday. You will make a beautiful bride and I can't wait to be apart of your marriage. If Grandma T. can look down from heaven she is smiling at you right now as you make this decision. She would be one who would want those children to have a mommy who will take care and love them properly. She would be down on her knees praying for you and David and the children. She was wonderful at praying right away for anyone. I will do that right now Anna even though I have been doing it ever since I heard. Love you, Aunt Cynthia

vacations

Vacations can be a relaxing time of getting away from your everyday; sleeping in, eating out, sitting around reading and napping, you get the picture.
Then there are Scott vacations, we have always gone on fun site seeing vacations where everything is pretty much planned out including what time I have to get up by in order to get the hotels free breakfast, and of course get going in order to get all of the site seeing he has planned in. Ok, ok I'm getting up!! Scott is a doer and likes to plan out museums, zoos and of course the air shows. Don't get me wrong, even though I will never be a morning person, and will probably always have trouble getting up for that breakfast; Scott"s time frame has adapted to me and I have adapted to this vacation style. I have come to enjoy the air shows, museums, zoos, and sites that He plans out for our trips.

I wonder though what it would be like to have a vacation where all that was planned out was where we were going to stay. Preferable on a beach somewhere, maybe a fold down camper in a nice park with a lounge chair and a slow burning fire close by. Or lets see a slow moving cruse boat where all that we are thinking about is what we are going to have for the next meal. I probably would find Scott at the rail looking for land.

Seriously I love my husband dearly and enjoy all of the things he plans out for our get a ways and will continue to enjoy his planning.

I wonder though what the next chick flick at the theater is and when I can get him to go with me.