Posts

A Bend in the Road

-
Image
Recently, I was gifted a book titled When Your World Falls Apart by the encouragement team at Shades Mountain Baptist Church. Now, since the beginning of my diagnosis, I have received a numerous amount of books on how to get through the pain and navigate life when a bump is put in your road, and sadly I haven’t been able to read them all. I think I have been gifted around twenty or so books, so I it will take me a while to get through them all. But this one book in particular is by a man named Dr. David Jeremiah, and the way he started this book out in the first chapter completely caught me off guard. He started it with a poem. It read as follows:             “ Sometimes we come to life’s crossroads             And we view what we think is the end.             But God has a much wider vision             And He knows that it’s only a bend— The road will go on and get smoother And after we’ve stopped for a rest, The path that lies hidden beyond us Is often th
2 comments
Read more

Relief is a Blessing

-
Image
Everything right now seems overwhelming. With maintaining grades to social life activities to involvement in church to chemo, sometimes I want to crawl up in a ball in my bed and go to sleep. I don’t want to face the world on those types of days. I cannot seem to shake off whatever hinders me from my full potential. On these days, relief is scarce. Almost nonexistent if you will. Truthfully, the only person I need relief from is myself. My life is different now and I have a hard time understanding and grasping that concept. I have unordinary things going on in my life and trying to live how I used to live won’t cut it anymore. I have to adapt daily to get by, and sometimes I give myself too much. I listen to myself too much and that’s a problem because there is a difference between listening to yourself and talking to yourself. We must talk to ourselves instead of letting ourselves to talk to us. If we allow ourselves to talk to us, what things do you think we will h
2 comments
Read more

God Doesn't Work in Mysterious Ways

-
Image
Ever heard the expression “God works in mysterious ways”? Well that’s not the case for me and here’s why: People constantly exclaim “God works in mysterious ways” but that hasn’t been the case in my life (recently at least). What does ‘mysterious ways’ even mean anyways? Does it mean that we cannot comprehend what God is doing in our lives? Does it mean God always has something up his sleeve for us? Does it mean you receive blessing without realizing they are blessings? I’ve never really understood the expression. I will let you be the judge of those questions and answer them, but I know for certain that God hasn’t worked in mysterious ways for me, personally at least. The reason I say he hasn’t worked in mysterious ways is that his work is evident in my life. His ways are easily distinguishable to me. God has blessed me with family and friends that love me dearly and would do anything for me. He has blessed me with a healthy mind, soul, and even body. He blessed me with
Post a Comment
Read more