I hope you are well, and responding well to your new challenges, I think we all at first have some amount of anxiety with something new. Yet as I look hindsight at my most challenging endeavors, the ones that stretched me the most grew me the most. As I look back over my life, nothing really came easy and yet all is real today in my life. And it all came about from some amount of struggles.
POEM By alan Alda.....You Have To Leave The City Of Your Comfort And Go Into The Wilderness Of Your Intuition. What You'll Discover Will Be Wonderful. What You'll Discover Is Yourself.
I read this years ago when i needed it the most, and have thought of it many many times. I was young in my faith then, but it was in leaving my city of comfort that I discovered who God truely was. It is when He became a reality to me, it was a time in my life that I was called away from my home, family ( even my own children for a season)and friends job everything that I knew and starting a new life with just me and God. I was 30 years old and already saved but this was my turning point in my life. being changed by God. And I have had some pretty severe challenges since then that i would want to run from, but they too have been the most exciting and maturing times for me.
My Prayer for you and your husband is that God will do above and beyond all that you can imagine, that He will meet you both at every struggle, that He will show Himself to be the great I AM in ways that are beyond mere words. Life with our Lord is always going to be intertwined with sorrows and joys. I just pray that the joys are felt and embraced more then the sorrows.
As for me, God is good, I was hurt deeply by my husband this week and I was determined not to let it hurt me with the Lord, I reached out to a couple of friends and asked them to pray I prayed myself and my husband said he was sorry, that all God he does not ask forgiveness too often i have fingers left on one hand 3 of them for the amount of times he has said he is sorry. So he is learning to say he is sorry and i am learning patience and what it means to wait on the Lord.
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Dear friend,
I hope you are well, and responding well to your new challenges, I think we all at first have some amount of anxiety with something new. Yet as I look hindsight at my most challenging endeavors, the ones that stretched me the most grew me the most. As I look back over my life, nothing really came easy and yet all is real today in my life. And it all came about from some amount of struggles.
POEM By alan Alda.....You Have To Leave The City Of Your Comfort And Go Into The Wilderness Of Your Intuition. What You'll Discover Will Be Wonderful. What You'll Discover Is Yourself.
I read this years ago when i needed it the most, and have thought of it many many times. I was young in my faith then, but it was in leaving my city of comfort that I discovered who God truely was. It is when He became a reality to me, it was a time in my life that I was called away from my home, family ( even my own children for a season)and friends job everything that I knew and starting a new life with just me and God. I was 30 years old and already saved but this was my turning point in my life. being changed by God. And I have had some pretty severe challenges since then that i would want to run from, but they too have been the most exciting and maturing times for me.
My Prayer for you and your husband is that God will do above and beyond all that you can imagine, that He will meet you both at every struggle, that He will show Himself to be the great I AM in ways that are beyond mere words. Life with our Lord is always going to be intertwined with sorrows and joys. I just pray that the joys are felt and embraced more then the sorrows.
As for me, God is good, I was hurt deeply by my husband this week and I was determined not to let it hurt me with the Lord, I reached out to a couple of friends and asked them to pray I prayed myself and my husband said he was sorry, that all God he does not ask forgiveness too often i have fingers left on one hand 3 of them for the amount of times he has said he is sorry. So he is learning to say he is sorry and i am learning patience and what it means to wait on the Lord.
Love you
In Christ
MaryAnn
July 26, 2008 - 7:42amThis Comment
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