PATIENCE!!

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I have heard that admonition for many years, but only recently have focused on my own lack of patience. So many times when I have sought specifics in my prayer life, my petitions before God, I have wanted to see quick or immediate results. The fast and seemingly urgent pace of today’s civilized world leads us to believe that we are due immediate answers to many of life’s problems and challenges. We often forget that with God a single day is like a thousand years,  and we often become quickly frustrated when those answers seem to have run into a delay.

In this regard,I am reminded of the words of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
” Never be in a hurry. Do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Commend all to God and then lie still and be at rest in his bosom.”

In recent years, I have experienced a number of challenges in my life, and I have thought more about my own impatience. I now know God is the author of time and my existence is on His timetable. I am coming to a place where I am more comfortable that I am not in control of that part of my life, like I once thought I was. I am by no means perfected in this regard, and sometimes continue to speak or act abruptly. But slowly (sometimes too slowly to my liking) I have been graced to exhibit more patience regarding myself and others. And through this process I have come to see more clearly that God really is in charge. My only responsibility is to submit my personal petitions to him and pray for grace to be patient as I await God’s will to be worked out. Jesus help me do that today and every day of my life!!

TESTIMONY

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My motivation for writing this blog is to relate towards of my testimony to a larger audience. The reason I do this is because I believe with all my heart it is what God’s will for me to do at this time in my life. I am hopeful that these words and the following words will have an influence in a good way on the readers’ lives. I realized that when an individual attempts to share testimony about their own lives it is essential that they search their own hearts to assure that the words that they speak or write our truthful. I testify that I have done that, and you will have to choose whether or not to believe what I write. My inspiration for taking my time and sharing these words with the reader, is I believe from the Holy Spirit. I have personally experienced reading documents and word phrases that were only half truths. Thus I am cautious to guard my words and write only those words that can be supported and validated by words of Holy Scripture. For me, I am referring to the Holy Bible which has been preserved through the ages as the accepted word of God. I am not a Bible teacher, although I have taught from the Bible, but that has not been my training. I have been self educated by spending many hours of my life searching the Bible for answers to questions I have had about the purpose of my own existence, and in order to find direction for my own life. I have been mentored by people who have themselves been more theologically trained. So these words in this blog are all I have to offer the reader. I hope you will find them helpful!

How Great Thou Art!!

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Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon and at first sight stood there breathless, unable to absorb the immensity of it all?

Think then about God, the Supreme Being, Creator and Life-giver to all that has ever been created, in the past, present and to come. Allow me to share with you some of my thoughts about that God, the One I have come to call my God!

Perhaps these mere words might ring TRUTH to my readers, and have a lasting effect! I certainly hope that will be the case for each of my readers, for that is the only purpose of this blog!