Be Still and Know I am God
Today this is my prayer, hope and desperate need for me. The line from zany, funny, life on the edge stuff has me clinging to the ledge with just my fingertips at the moment.
So please, if you are a pray-er, pray; and if not, just send healing thoughts my way. For those of you reading who know about Spiritual Warfare, let's just say I got blindsided. I am trusting that what I find myself in the middle of is an opportunity to respond, not react. To grow relationships rather than destroy them, to heal rather than to hurt, and to cling to God who will walk alongside me.
It involves relationships with my son Matt, his girlfriend Carolyn (and their relationship together) and also my mom.
Thanks. Peace.
So please, if you are a pray-er, pray; and if not, just send healing thoughts my way. For those of you reading who know about Spiritual Warfare, let's just say I got blindsided. I am trusting that what I find myself in the middle of is an opportunity to respond, not react. To grow relationships rather than destroy them, to heal rather than to hurt, and to cling to God who will walk alongside me.
It involves relationships with my son Matt, his girlfriend Carolyn (and their relationship together) and also my mom.
Thanks. Peace.
Labels: hurting parents, living life on the edge and fallling off, Relationships matter, when someone you love hurts you
posted by www.kathypride.com at
8:15 AM
6 Comments:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all you mind, and all your strength; and love your neighbor as yourself.
I think that's about all that is required of us..."all". The difficulty is always in the "all". Sometimes "all" my strength is not very much. Sometimes "all" my heart is so little.
Praying for you.
I read a great study on Eve today.
http://heartofthematteronline.com/walking-among-them-eve/
Toward the end, she talks about times when we are more easily tempted, when we are weary, etc. I'm praying for you that God will reveal to you to the limit of your compehension your innate value to him--not what you do--but just who you are, who he made you to be; and that you can find rest in that, to strengthen and protect you for the battle.
Yes, I am a pray-er-and I am lifting you up to the throne room even as I type. He is sufficient even when we are weak and feel unable to handle any more! Another "all" is a very familiar one, "for I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me" Philipians 4:13. ALL things, not some, or almost all things, or whatever..ALL-every thing God has called you to do and be!
My love, prayers, and blessings to you, dear friend!
Sorry, dear friend, I was without a voice today--literally. It's horrible having laryngitis when you're the speaker! Hysterical (now that it's over!). I lost my voice half way through my presentation and the meeting planner ran up to the podium with a lemon, honey, and brandy! Thankfully, it was at a country club where those things abound.
Much like my voice, words are empty unless they are bathed in prayer which I will do right now...(silently of course).
HUGS!!!!!!
Hi Kathy -- sorry to hear you are having a difficult time. I am sending you e-hugs and lots of good feelings and thoughts your way. I have visualized a positive outcome for you.
My favorite and most used visualization, which I have taught my kids as well, is this:
Visualize as clearly as you can (you have to quiet your mind to do this) your problem/ difficulty/ issue as a physical thing and put it in a box (it might need to be a very big box). Tie it up and then attach balloons to it (again, you might need either a lot of balloons or a very large balloon). They lift it into the air and release it. Watch it as it slowly drifts towards the horizon and out of sight. That part is important. Really watch it going until it's gone. I always feel an actual physical lightening of my load. I am also able to forgive completely when what's in the box is anger or hurt or disappointment.
It's amazing, really. The more details you add to the scene, the better it works. I am almost always on an empty beach or in a large field (ever been to Kitty Hawk? that's perfect.).
Hang in there.
Love,
Katy
Thank you, my friends, sisters and soulmates.
Katy, I have done the visualization excercise you speak of in the past, but hadn't remembered it. I am also a beach person and have been to the Outer Banks, so that will work. It will be a big box and require extra helium to get it up and out...
It's hard to watch our kids suffer. But that's part of life.
Know this, though, happiness will be all the sweeter because he knows the other side. And happiness is a choice we make (barring brain chemical imbalances).
I remember when my neighbors, who had been like family to me, moved away when I was 11, I hugged the dad goodbye and when the hug was done, I felt soo cold. I remember thinking, I didn't know I was warm and cozy until I felt cold.
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