GOOD THINGS STILL HAPPEN

Deuteronomy 33:29 KJV
Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

Bad things fall apart so good things can happen!

Dearest Sisters,

HAPPY WEDNESDAY!!!

We are just a few days away from Mother's Day!!! Yay! Hooray!
I wouldn't be opposed to ideas for Mother's WEEK or Mother's MONTH! LOL! How about MOTHER'S DAY twice a year??!! Sounds soooooo good! Haha!

All bantering aside, I pray that heartwarming, refreshing, and renewing plans await you all! Whatever you do in observance of Mother's Day and beyond, please do this: Enjoy the little things in life, for someday you will realize they were the big things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I can't add enough exclamation points here......I could write a book based on this topic alone. Enough said. Moving on. AMEN! LOL)

HAPPY early MOTHER'S DAY to each of you!!!!!

YOU are awesome and amazing!!!

YOU radiate a beauty that was hard fought and won!!!!

YOU are perfectly capable, in Christ, to minister to your children during every season of their lives.

YOU have been blessed of God with a very, very, very, very special assignment. Every tool that you need to accomplish it, God has placed in you. Continue to walk worthy of your calling!

YOU are an incredible mom!!!!!!!

Ladies, I encourage you to trust God's ways and believe His wonders! Why is it easier to believe fairy tales than God's truths? Oh, help us Lord! Your promises and wonders are unfathomable, indescribable, and overwhelming. Overwhelm us with your love, oh God! Flood our hearts and homes with your amazing grace, peace that surpasses understanding, and mercies that are new everyday!

The Lord's ways are NOT our ways! The Lord's thoughts are NOT our thoughts! Just because we do NOT understand something does NOT mean that it does not make sense. Hence the Lord's admonition to us: Trust in the Lord with ALL your heart; and lean NOT to your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5). In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Sometimes, we are so quick to assess a situation and pass a verdict. We are quicker to acknowledge the good or bad aspects of a situation than God's supremacy and sovereignty in spite of _________. More often than not, our verdicts are not completely true because we formed them prematurely and with not enough information.

It's so tempting to label an experience "good" or "bad" but, be careful. God is always miraculously at work. What we deem as "good" or "bad" may be very unfitting as the story unfolds. Let's choose to acknowledge God! Let's choose to have Him direct our paths AND THOUGHTS!

Have you ever experienced a situation in which you lost all?

Have you experienced a situation wherein you thought you had something good but it was bad? Or he or she was bad for you yet you called "bad" good.

Loss is usually very painful. But, it is also a great foreshadow of something greater to come. Loss marks an end but also a new beginning.

Not everything that we hold so dear is worthy of our affection!

Be careful how you handle loss, whether real or perceived!

Be careful what you hold close to your heart! Somethings you hold close can get ahold of you and cost you your sanity, sensibility and "chispa" (Italian for spark).

You never know when loss may be incredibly helpful to set you free!

You never know when your loss will be followed by something great!

The children of Israel lost the familiarity of their captors and captivity when God rescued them from Egypt! Egypt was very, very bad for the children of Israel but, many of the Israelites grew comfortable and complacent in a bad situation.

Lukewarm is never good! (Revelation 3: 16).

Remember, where you are born is not always where God wants you to remain! Wherever you are most comfortable is not always where God wants you! Wherever you are right NOW, may not be where God wants you long term!

The Israelites' delivery from captivity was eventful and painful. However, freedom spurred them into a beautiful promise that was declared for them generations ago.

Bad things fall apart; good things can still happen!

Prior to entering the Promised Land, Joshua and the children of Israel, were commanded to utterly destroy all of the pagan kings and nations in the surrounding areas.

The Lord God gave the children of Israel a wonderful land inheritance but they had to drive out the pagan people before they could possess it.

Bad things fall apart; good things can still happen!

There are times when the Lord wants to do an entirely NEW thing in our lives. But, before He does the NEW thing, He will purge our lives of the old. Old desires and old thoughts are retired. Old problems are resolved. Old pain is healed. Old, unhealthy relationships are severed. Old surroundings are exchanged for new frontiers. The list goes on and on.

Purging is much like pruning. It's involves hard work! It involves great loss. It looks and feels painful! Yet, both are purposeful tasks that yield great gain!

Bad things are always bad and must come to an end. But, loss is not entirely bad!

What have you loss? Cry out to God! Trust Him! I dare you to believe that something great or greater lies ahead. Trust the Lord and lean NOT to your own understanding. Acknowledge the Lord throughout the pain and process of your loss. God WILL direct your paths!

As you travel the paths from defeat to victory, from bondage to freedom, from pain to promise, you will lose many things. But, count it all joy. Bad things happen! ALSO, bad things fall apart! Good things can still happen.

Love, blessings, and hugs to all