Confirmation

Pastor Rickie Rush, of Inspiring Body of Christ Church, preached a GREAT sermon today. He spoke words I needed to hear again. About success and the kind of person you are.

Success takes time, patience (which I'm not great at) trust and lots of faith. To look unto the hills to see where my help comes from. Hard to do. Yet oh so very true. Success ain't easy--yet can be done. In His time.

And the kind of person you are--just look around at your friends. Really look. Do they run with the chickens or do they soar with the eagles? Granted you love them. And they love you. They've seen YOUR light and were drawn to you. However, do they drain you? Or do they want to soar as high as you do? Or would they rather pet their own backs and say 'tsk-tsk'? I prefer to soar like an eagle.

Eagles are also solitary. What's hard for me at times, is some of my friends won't come along for the ride. They prefer to wave--maybe, that is if they don't tell me what I can or can't do . I know I'll just send them a postcard.

Confirmation today. Indeed. To look to the place where my help does come from.

I am blessed.

SunDay Light Savings Time

Sure, I got messed up with the time this morning. I forget to set the clock ahead, before I fell asleep during Saturday Night Live. Anyway, I made it up in time to church.

Instead of going to Inspiring Body of Christ Church with Rickie G. Rush or Friendship West Baptist with Freddy Haynes, I visited a church I'd never heard of. In fact the work chum who invited me. asked if I prefered small churches or mega-churches. Told her, I leaned toward something a bit smaller--well, I didn't expect the congregation to be at most, 60 folks. That includes the preacher. Not been part of something THAT small.

"His Dwelling Place" with Pastor Dondi Johnson, is where I headed.

Gotta say the spirit was all over this place. Small crowd, yet Mighty Spirit. Right off the bat the Pastor Dondi Johnson points me out of the crowd and says how I'm a woman with some issues, but I needed to realize God had this. Plus, I was stronger than I realized, Pastor Dondi Johnson informed me-repeatedly.

After the service was over, I spoke more to him. Pastor Dondi Johnson's eye's never left mine as he informed me how I put up a wall all around my heart due to all the hurt I've endured. Don't need to do that anymore, he said, God protects me, always has. All the while Pastor Johnson squeezed my hand. Me? Speechless. Never met this guy until today. He didn't know anything about me, yet here he was; all up in my Blue Bell Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ice Cream.

And Pastor Dondi Johnson spoke the truth.

I can't lie. A weight lifted from my shoulders. Hmm. Maybe I need to step on the scale to see if anyMORE weight has been lifted.

All in all, a very nice, gorgeous day. Every window is opened. A cat takes its turn in each one. I sneeze for what ever is in the air. Don't care.

I needed today. Glad God led me to a house of His today, especially because He's been in mine everyday.

I am blessed.

Sunday Something

Pastor Rickie G. Rush, of Inspiring Body of Christ Church, preached from 2 Corinthians 4:18 today. What you see is temporary, what you don't see is eternal. How God breaks you to get YOU ready for the blessings--His plan for YOU. Your decision are not His decisions.

Yea. Feel all of that. I know I'm better than what I was. A work in progress--that's what I am--with more ways to go. I need to rejoice more in what I have--instead of worrying so much what I don't have. Which, honestly. are material things.

Oh wait, except for the man, I don't have in my life. That's not material. It's flesh. But yet, one of those things God is getting me prepared for. Just didn't want to be 100 when Mister Right Are You Still Breathing Now? appears. I digress.

I look around and open my eyes to what God has blessed me with. It's the little things. The little things, I claim should make me happy--that have grown into big things. A purr of a cat. A touch of a friend. The laughter of children--of all ages-including my own.
How He continues to prepare me. To make the images, He's flashed in my brain, come to be. I have to be ready. I can't force it. He's know what's right. I need to release more, give Him all my troubles and just give Him glory.

He doesn't ask for much.

He's not brought me this far to leave me.

I am blessed.