Saturday, August 1, 2009

I was wrong

It is always fear first
and then anger
or shame
pain
 
spiritual or emotional pain
 
To what extent should we push
the limits..?..eating better foods
excercise, sleep,.....
 
I have a friend who has a rough life
lost a spouse, almost lost a second spouse
smoked a lot in the earlier years
these days there are lung problems
and bone problems etc....but this person although
using foul language....professes to know God.
 
I used to use a lot of foul language myself...
so this is not about foul language....in fact
I still struggle with foul language....another
person said in conversation recently...we
agreed that...the anger and frustration that
make us cuss is the real problem...and so
we find ouselves USING the foul language
sometimes without mouthing a word.
We say we are in the F mode
with the MUTE button on.
 
Going to work....
all the time
from one job to another
no time for family
taking the pills
to go to sleep at the right time
and then to stay awake
Is this the management of our lives....?
 
"WE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT OUR
LIVES HAD BECOME
UNMANAGABLE"
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
O LORD, I know that the way humans
act is not under their control.
Humans do not direct their
steps as they walk.
Jeremiah 10:23 (click it to read the rest)
 
so now we break a bone.....
an accident.....not really
Did God intervene ? this person thinks so now
in fact they state without doubt....
This person now acknowledges God
The struggling seems to have stopped
There is no other way out
 
As I sat and listened last evening....
The visit began with the complaining...
"I can't live like this....I must have a check"
by the end of the visit
there was another attitude emerging
resingation
peace
 
not only is the bone broken
my will is broken
I admit that there is nothing I can do
now for at least 12 weeks.
 
my family is around
everyday now...
I can enjoy them
________________________
 
drop THY still dew of quietness
till all our striving cease
take from our souls
the strain and stress
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of THY peace
_________________
 
Psalm 46 >>  

1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and
though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though
the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad
the city of God, the holy place of
the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:
God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved:
he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD,
what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;
he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder;
he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God:
I will be exalted among the heathen,
I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The LORD of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
 
AMEN

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