For I know the plans I have for you; declares the Lord
Plans to prosper you and not harm you,
Plans to give you a hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Sky of Hope
In moments where the memories fade and the darkness creeps in and the questioning begins...
These are the moments to believe...
Believe and lean not on your own understanding....but follow the path that the Creator envisions for you to walk...no matter how treacherous or how enduring it may seem...there is destiny written in the sky of hope.
It's the rainy day... and the storm clears...and the biggest and brightest rainbow appears...leaving a memory that hope and love will always prevail.
The sky of hope has a beauty and luster that captures the soul and gives the heart the courage and magic to believe...
These are the moments to believe...
Believe and lean not on your own understanding....but follow the path that the Creator envisions for you to walk...no matter how treacherous or how enduring it may seem...there is destiny written in the sky of hope.
It's the rainy day... and the storm clears...and the biggest and brightest rainbow appears...leaving a memory that hope and love will always prevail.
The sky of hope has a beauty and luster that captures the soul and gives the heart the courage and magic to believe...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Glimpse of Encouragement
Earlier last week a friend sent me a text with some verses out of Lamentations to encourage me through my world wind of transition. I sat to read them after she sent me the text, and really thought that the whole chapter reflected my entire walk the last several years. Exactly a week later, tonight...the verses that my friend had sent me a week prior were read aloud at a bible study that I attended.
God sends us the words that we need to hear....when we need to hear them. He is working when we can't see...and loves us even in His time of silence. During those times we must listen closely and feel His love through the glimpses of encouragement.
I think many people feel that at certain times in their lives they have been afflicted...simply besieged and surrounded by hardship. Hardship can be different for everyone, for what might be easy for one person is a mountain for another person.
I believe that these verses from the book of Lamentations reflect how hope will shine through the hardship.
Lamentations 3: 1-9
vs 1: I am a man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
vs 2: He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light:
vs 3: Indeed he has turned his hand against me again, and again, all day long.
vs 4: He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
vs 5: He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
vs 6: He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
vs 7: He has walled me in so I can not escape, he has weighed me down with chains.
vs 8: Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
vs. 9: He has barred my way will blocks of stone; He has made path crooked....
Lamentations: 3: 25-26; 28-29; 31- 33
vs 25:The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
vs 26: It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
vs 28: Let him sit alone in silence for the Lord has laid it on him.
vs 29: Let him bury his face in the dust there may yet be hope.
vs 31: For we are not cast off by the Lord forever.
vs 32: Though He brings grief he will show compassion, so great is His unfailing love.
vs 33: For he does not not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.
God sends us the words that we need to hear....when we need to hear them. He is working when we can't see...and loves us even in His time of silence. During those times we must listen closely and feel His love through the glimpses of encouragement.
I think many people feel that at certain times in their lives they have been afflicted...simply besieged and surrounded by hardship. Hardship can be different for everyone, for what might be easy for one person is a mountain for another person.
I believe that these verses from the book of Lamentations reflect how hope will shine through the hardship.
Lamentations 3: 1-9
vs 1: I am a man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
vs 2: He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light:
vs 3: Indeed he has turned his hand against me again, and again, all day long.
vs 4: He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
vs 5: He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
vs 6: He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
vs 7: He has walled me in so I can not escape, he has weighed me down with chains.
vs 8: Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
vs. 9: He has barred my way will blocks of stone; He has made path crooked....
Lamentations: 3: 25-26; 28-29; 31- 33
vs 25:The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
vs 26: It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
vs 28: Let him sit alone in silence for the Lord has laid it on him.
vs 29: Let him bury his face in the dust there may yet be hope.
vs 31: For we are not cast off by the Lord forever.
vs 32: Though He brings grief he will show compassion, so great is His unfailing love.
vs 33: For he does not not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.
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