The week of Eeyores, blessings and Taking the High Road

This week has contained way too many eeyores for me. You see people going threw a hard time, their life isnt going according to "their" plan or they were tossed a curve ball, and instead of whining for a couple days, they turn into eeyore. "Oh poor, poor me. oh well. nothings gonna change" type of attitude. Believe me, i am learning that with god its O.K to let go and let him as my grandmother calls it drive the boat. (who knows why god is driving a boat and not something like a Lamborghini but its a boat) I am the first to sit and call my mom in tears because im frustrated or something went wrong, but after the hour long phone call or the 24 hour time period of my moping i 95% of the time move past it. 

I am so tired of seeing people i truly care about fall into being eeyore. I am constantly telling people that you have so much more to be happy/thankful about, like GOD LOVES YOU. but nothing can take them out of their eeyore mode. I am constantly reminded that even though you see something, people are blinded by their emotions and will only see what they wish to.

(Mid - week)
Lately god has really been blessing us, But do you ever wonder if he is going to test your faith, to see if you'll follow him even when life sucks? Kinda like waiting for the other shoe to drop? I know god isn't like that. I know this deep inside but the still the story of job is recalled to my mind. Yes satan was the one that messed with god, but god allowed it. God is just great.

( End of the week )
By the end of the week, i was feeling pretty good. the eeyores were gone, my life was great and things that were supposed to get me down, couldn't have mattered less. But After awhile things like that start to wear on you. It dawned on me though, sometimes its not worth it, Sometimes you just have to stop and learn to walk past it. I was once told to take the higher road, but asked at what cost? Is there ever a cost too high to pay to take a higher or better way threw something? I think there isn't. I think that to take the higher road or do the godly thing is always right no matter the cost.

So I know people arent going to agree with me, and you know what Im okay with that

loaner dogs

So i have gone threw a lot of dogs in this past year trying to find the perfect one, lest be said i havent found him yet. So I was feeling down because people were harping on me saying that i should just stop getting animals OBVIOUSLY it wasnt for me, so talking to my grandmother she tells me 'grasshopper, tell them that they are loaner dogs, i asked what that meant and she said you loan them to see what you want and what you dont we have all done it plenty of times so dont get so down about it.

and i was thinking in a way god loans us people to. i lost a dear friend of mine last september and thinking back i was devasted that he lost his battle with lukemia and knowing that greiving is a selfish emotion and its perfectly okay but god was just loaning him to me. God loans his people out, he will always take them back and no matter the cirumstances, its a good thing. they came into our lives and helped with the hard times, gave us laughter, taught us things no one else could and loved us. There is always a reason for everything god does.

John 10:3-4 : To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

God is like the Ocean.

So today with the blazing hot temperature me and my aunt went to Portland, She had her ruby Wednesday where she meets with an elderly woman that she be-friended awhile ago and i go to visit with my mother and sisters.

Afterward's we decide to go to lunch, always when i am with my aunt we end up talking about god, NEVER a bad thing. :) we talk about our struggles with him, our lessons we recently have learned or even things we just don't get. and believe me I'm learning all the things i DONT get. lol

The conversation eventually touched on how i don't get why people decide to go around the same mountain, and i am talking about the WOE is me, i have soo many trials and tribulations mountain the one that Christian's often find themselves circling. I first heard the analogy from Joyce Meyer. Wow is she one heck of a teacher. But its true, i know i have walked a many times around this mountain but it makes my heart hurt to watch a fellow Christian continuously do this, EVEN when we give them the tools to go threw, go over, or even move this mountain and yet they still encircle it. GOD gives them the GREATEST of these tools and yet they refuse to listen. Its like a Eeyore effect. they sit under a black storm cloud and don't look for the silver lining. the saying goes, "you cant help those who wish not to be helped'.

When talking to my aunt i find that i tend to be so thirsty to hear what the bible has to say about certain things, ya think gods telling me something? lol. So when we finally get on the road of course the conversation continues and when i finally start to look around i notice, 'Wow, I'm 5 minutes from my house' But i still have ONE more question i wanna know about. What does the saying "Fear of god' mean? Does god really want us to fear him? or does it have some "Other" meaning? my aunt explained it as no he doesn't want us to fear him, he is Almighty and you need to respect him and be in AWE of him,

(((For the unbeliever it means judgement day (luke 12:5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him) for the believer Check out Hebrews 12:28-29 (Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29 for our “God is a consuming fire.” ). )))))

I took that to mean God is like the Ocean. We respect the ocean but We Don't fear the ocean, It is Almighty. We know that the ocean has an Almighty wrath that requires respect, i think god is just like that, he is great and almighty and has the ability to have great wrath but he doesn't use it at a drop of the hat. our god is Just and it says it rains EVENLY on the just and the unjust alike.


So there you have it folks. Until next time i deem it necessary to write to no one. :)