"ON THE ROAD TO GLORY": accept

Showing posts with label accept. Show all posts

Showing posts with label accept. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

How to Find Your Perfect Weight

God working through this woman is helping me slowly change my focus and my thinking always working towards God's perfect will. I recommend her blog, her books, her facebook highly!

How to Find your Perfect Weight

Thursday, August 28, 2008

A Woman's Touch

I hate dirt and I really, really hate MUD!!! I do not want footprints of clay-like material trekking across my floors.

Take soil with lots of clay in it, Oregon rain, Men who tromp and what do you have........MUD....

Now I understand construction requires playing in the MUD. But I have never understood why it is necessary to tromp it all over the place. Could we not have clean shoes and dirty shoes??? Seems possible to me.

So....we are creating a 160 foot baby trench 14" deep for a water line going around the perimeter of the new building. We are high-Tech and using a digging-trenching machine......It moves very slow, in fact slow enough to complete a manicure while you are waiting for it to move. So.....do we stand there at the mercy of the machine, waiting for it to do it's thing or do we attend to necessary matters while we wait???

Women have always been good at multi-tasking....

Thursday, January 24, 2008

What is it like to believe in Jesus CHrist??? PEACE

I can only wish that every person on this earth accepts Jesus Christ, that he died for our sins, that he rose to sit at the right hand of God and that he is coming back for us and we will all live the eternal life that is promised to those that believe. Thank you Lord for allowing me to see. I ask for your continued guidance and grace, but in all honesty.....I accept whatever you give me.....

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Now that I have advertised my blog in the paper as a spiritual and artistic journey of a reborn Christian and a reborn Artist....Wow what a ride...... I guess I need to give a little history so those who do not know me will understand where I was in my past life and why I am writing this now....

I married at 18, not for love, but because I was pregnant. I had a wonderful son and a miserable marriage. But I was never one to give up and besides it was too easy just to let things slide.

When I was 31 my son was hit by a car and died at the age of 13. My husband and I each proceeded to go our own way in destroying our lives. Alcohol, drugs and rock and roll.

I was lucky in that I could keep up appearances during the day and had a rewarding career in the medical field. One of my conventions brought me to Portland, Oregon and my husband and I fell in love with the Oregon Coast. The marriage was still miserable but tolerable and I saw hope in moving to Oregon to get my husband out from under the control of cocaine. From the beginning of time I have always wanted to fix everyone but myself.

At 40 we moved to Oregon to begin our new life. Seven years later my husband was dead at age 60 from a horrific disease, interstitial fibrosis. I cared for him during the progressive disease which lasted 3 years. He died on father's day. As I sat in the room that morning waiting for the undertaker, I could only feel that our son had come to take his Dad home. I should probably note that from the time my son died I had written God off. There was no answer for me as to why children have to die, especially mine. During my husband's illness, I would walk past the chapel at Providence Hospital and something would call to me to come in and I would deny it, get away from me. I want no part of a God that appears unjust. Then 9/11 happened and that really cemented it in my mind that God wasn't worth the effort letting innocent people die so unfairly.

During one of my tirades about this, to a Christian, there appeared behind him, in blazing letters....."JESUS" Somehow I accepted what had happened in my life as God's will, I could not understand, I just had to accept and believe in his mercy.....and that is the day I accepted Jesus as my savior.

Instantly I was given a person to love, I was given my new husband's two wonderful children and then grandchildren. All that I had lost was given back to me...on faith, blind faith...because we can never begin to understand God's plan......Now I was right with God but I had not let him dwell in my heart and in my consciousness and I had not yet begun a relationship with my savior.

Then my new husband's 31 year old son was diagnosed with osteosarcoma and died..... but not before he brought his Dad and me back into the Lord's house and we became re-committed to God's plan for our lives, his word and his house.

I feel so very blessed that God did not EVER give up on me and he will NEVER give up on anyone until the very end...

Giving up the remote control has not been easy since I am a control freak and have always believed I was the one directing my life. But....I can only suggest trying it....you will be amazed at what happens and the joy it brings.....