It has come to pass that I start a new journey. Another phase in my life that fills me with trepidation as well as excitement. It is a beginning and an end for me as are all new journeys. Over the last few months, I have talked with the Lord about my future. Well I have listened and he has talked. I knew where he was leading me but whether I traveled with another was always a question. His plan was that I would not; but God has given us free will and the power to choose the path he has laid out or another path; one we have decided for ourselves. So it has come that I travel alone. I have waited for the choice to be made by another. God had asked me to be patient and pray. I have prayed fervently that the path that God had laid out would be chosen but it has not been so. It is funny to me because I know that the other person knows the path is the only way but is not ready to accept it. The world is too much to give up right now. So I travel on this journey alone. But never completely alone as the Lord is always faithful and ever present. He has let me know it is time to move on and become the person that he has laid out for me. My journey will be a hard one but at the end I will find greater happiness than I have ever known. He will be well pleased as I will not fail in the task that is before me. I will not fail. I am content and at peace with what I must do and the fact that I will be alone. Along the way I will find wonderful guidance from people whom God has blessed and who read and follow his word. Their wisdom and counsel will be a light in the darkness and further proof of his love for me. I look forward to this new journey and have no doubt that following his will is far better than following mine or allowing the world to control me. Even with the future changes, I am already happier than I have been in a very long time. I give thanks to the Lord for his wisdom, his mercy, this peace, and most of all the everlasting love that is mine because of him.
I ask God to bless you as you read this. Look above for he has laid his hand upon you and your life will be ever changed for it. Feel the great love that encompasses you and know that there is so much more for you than you know right now. Jesus was born for you so that God's love could rain down upon you and you could live everlasting in his presence. It is his promise to me and to you. God is faithful and the same today as he was 2000 years ago. Let him in so that peace can be yours forever.
Jesus has said that it is better to be one who has been done wrong than one who does wrong to another. When I put this in the perspective of my own life, I know this is certainly true. I know that it hurts us badly when people wrong us. I know that our anger and bitterness envelope us and sometimes threaten to overcome us. But look at the other side...When you have wronged someone, doesn't the shame follow you far longer than when you have been the one hurt. And really, it doesn't stop at our death. When we have wronged someone and never repent, ask their forgiveness or God's, we are doomed to hell and eternal pain. So the relatively fleeting pain of being wronged does not measure up to the eternal pain we suffer for the wrongs we do to others. It is better then to embrace the wrong done to us and be thankful to the Lord for it. Forgive and pray that the ones who have wronged us repent and see that theirs will be a terrible fate it they don't. God love you everyone and rejoice every day for the beauty and blessings that surround you. Donna
