Up & Running

Well, I think I've got things mostly back to normal on this lovely piece of Internet real estate!

Perhaps I'll attempt something new again this evening...I'm a bit scared now though! :)

Doesn't Play Well With Technology

I decided to try and get fancy with my blog...and ended up kind of killing it. Oops.

Hopefully I'll get it back to its old status shortly...then maybe I'll more carefully try to be fancy!

Hope

I hang on to a hope founded in the Lord with everything I have. Nothing else will ever provide the security which this hope does. It is the thing that allows me to look at the circumstances of my life and find peace, joy, and even happiness no matter what I'm going through. I may not always have the emotion but I do have the security of being held in this hope. Grab onto this hope and trust it - it is where faith lives!

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
- Romans 8:24-25

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
- Hebrews 10:23

Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
- Psalm 25:4-5

Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.
- Psalm 31:24

We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.
- Psalm 33:20

Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
- Psalm 62:5-6

Not Like Me

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
- Isaiah 55:9

God does not act as I would choose to have Him to act. He does not think as I would have Him think. He does not answer when I would have Him shout.

All I can say about that is thank goodness it is true! If God were to respond in ways that I anticipated and do what I would do then how small He would be...and how hard it would be for me to be knocked off my feet and surprised by Him! In the long run I'm happy to see that He loves me enough to not take my suggestions for things! For now I attempt to rest knowing that I'll never be able to see what God has planned but believing that this is part of how His love for me is made known.

I want to experience the unknown, spontaneous, surprising things that God has for me - to trust Him and stop trying to figure it out! Yet again, steps in a journey, not an overnight change for me!

Held

You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
- Psalm 139:5

Things I am reminded of:
1. I have a past and God was there.
2. I have a future and God is there.
3. I have a present and God holds me right now.

It is good to be assured that God always has been and always will be involved in my moments but tonight, I really just need to know the third item is true.