Consider Your God

Today I want to consider my God.  I want to come into the Lords presence and I want to bring Him glory, honour and praises.  I have so much to be grateful over and I have a Lord who loves me and has chosen me.  I know that I am His child because I have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my Lord and saviour.  I know that the Lord has good things in store for me, things to prosper me and not to bring me harm.

Today ‘I want to praise the Lord my God, with all my heart; before the ‘gods’ I will sing your praises.  I will bow down towards your holy temple and will praise your name for your love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.  When I called, you answered me; you made me bold and stout-hearted.’ Psalm 138

I will proclaim that ‘you hem me in – behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too loftily for me to attain.’ Psalm 139

Father God I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

What an awesome God I serve, I will not fear any harm to come to me, Lord You have called me by my name and I am your child.

The Spider

Today I was listening to Pastor Chip Ingram, I enjoy his services on the iPod very much.  I feel that he inspire me and that I keep a constant check on who I am.

‘Balancing Life’s demands’ is a series that I have been listening to and Pastor Chip has been talking about how to balance our lives.  I have come to realise that I am just like anybody else, I am preoccupied with all kinds of things and I keep busy with a lot of this, that and the other.  I run around the house cleaning, cooking and ironing.  Making sure everything is in place but the thing that should take priority in my own life is honest time and dedication to the Lord my God.

My spider I would say is ‘busyness’ I have forgotten to balance my life and I have become entangled with being so busy.  

The Lord has brought me to this place in my life where I need to stop, become quiet and listen to the Lord.  I believe God is making me take some time out and spending it in His presence.  I want to grow spiritually and I want the Lord to lift me up from my situation.

So what are the spiders in your life?  Are you accountable and taking responsibility for our own actions and setting time aside for God?  

Wow, not that easy hey?  You may say, I read my Bible and pray every day.  Yip, so do I and I am thinking I need more of God to help me balance my life.  What about you?

The end of fall

The leaves are still falling from the trees and there is a chill in the air.  The puppies come in and follow me all around the house.  We tidy and clean and then I come and sit behind my computer and start making notes of my days.  It has been almost two years now that I have worked in an office.  I miss the buzz and the busyness of the people around me.

My husband works till about 19h00 at night and then only gets home after 20h00.  He works most weekends because the pay is good and the project needs to be done.  He is a great man; I admire him and think the world of him.  He works hard and loves us all.  The children don’t know how lucky they are to have a dad like him. 

With winter knocking at our door I am grateful for spending time with the children and being able to collect them from school and check their homework with them.  It is stressful at times when Pieter doesn’t do his homework and he doesn’t tell me he had something to do.  He always seems to forget – my goodness.

Well I am hoping my tulips will come up this year and bloom, I am looking forward to seeing what they will look like.  Then when spring arrives we are hoping to see our second grandchild.  The knitting is going strong at home so hopefully I would have completed something nice for this little one.  But let's get through this winter and hopefully the Lord will open a door for me to go back to work again.  In the mean time I am enjoying the time in God’s word and learning as much as I can.  We too have sessions in our lives and this is what I am learning.  How great is our God, He cares about us even when we believe He has forgotten us. 

Bloom

I have been working for more than 20 years and I have never had the opportunity to stay home and enjoy a peaceful life.  My days were getting up at 05h00 am in the morning, reading my Bible, praying for my friends and family.  Getting ready for work and then starting my day.  Waking my children and getting in my car driving to work.  This past couple of years I have been blessed in that I am at home and I can enjoy going out in the morning and sit in the sun and enjoy the day with a nice cup of tea and feel the heat of the sun on my face. 

My little yorkies are so cute they run around the yard like two little bucks jumping and playing with the cat.  I have come to realise that I can bloom just where I find myself.  The Lord has brought me into this place to take a break and rest in Him.  My husband is wonderful and he looks after me and takes good care of me and the children.  I miss my family, my own children but I realise that I can take a little break and enjoy my days here. 

I am waiting on the Lord to move me when the time is right, I stand on Him every day and know I can be safe in Him.  Thank You Lord Jesus for letting me bloom right where I find myself, thank You also for my husband and children bless all my friends and family and help them to bloom where they find themselves.

Step-mom

As a step mother I have been watching over two young children, they are my husband’s two kids; and I wonder at the things these two get up to.  The one can come up with the most fascinating stories, this happened today and that happened today.  If anyone else says something like ‘I had a dream last night’ and then proceeds to tell of their dream.  The other child would just would interrupt the story telling and tell you their dream was scarier and more exciting.  I find they are competing with one another all the time.

It seems that they both lack in listening skills, they hear when you talk to them but they never really seem to listen to the request or statement.  It is really difficult to work with them as they both seem to be in competition with me and want to make me stand in their shadow.

At first it worked on my nervous and now I just look at them and wonder what they hope to active by acting like they do.  One day hopefully when they grow up and reach the age of adulthood I hope that they would have learned how to listen and how to carry out instructions.  I hope that they one day would be good adults with high standards.  I believe in time they too will aspire to be good in everything they do.  I am teaching them to try and achieve a better mark in school reports and to pay attention to detail and make sure that everything is in its place.

It is my hope and dream that I too may be of value to each of my children one day.  Many times I think of the things I learned from my own mother and not forgetting my father.  I still admire them and think the world of them, the time and efforts they put into my own life.  I hope to be an inspiration to the two young children and I hope that I am able to inspire my grown children and grandchildren.  I love all my children and I love my grandchildren too.  I can only praise the Lord Jesus for this gift of children in my life.