Thankful?

  How thankful are we?

I have had to digest what I told you earlier and time has a way of figuring things out. Not always clearly or exact but let's say just enough for me. My choice would be to keep the friends I like and see fit; or as I enjoy facebook, I choose who I want to find.Thank God he has a way of redirecting things. I do not always know what is best for me or who is best for me. A child has parents to do the dirty work for them. Like, how much candy is too much or what friends are not the best to hang out with. Now, I admitt, that my parent does not make those choices for me and I still mess them up! Candy or goodies during the holidays is way too tempting and I still hear myself say, 'I'll never do that again.'! I am glad to say that as I look at my life, things I wanted just didn't happen. What do you know, it was for the best. Some things I did get that I did want weren't the best for me. So sometimes do you feel like your Joseph's brothers selling yourself into slavery? Do you ever feel God has good in store for us even when we meant destruction? Boy, do I know so! God has connected me with the hurting people I know and that is because they are the best for me. They are showing me if we didn't care, it wouldn't hurt and, thus, in this unperfect world, to care is to hurt. When we scare and become bitter is another talk, but to become stronger and help others is victory and glory to God. Hurt is inevitable but hardness and feeling it isn't. I am thankful.  

Protected or Rejected?

Going, as the road does lead me yet I only see what the horizons show me. Now it shows me light & glory, but I did not know by where I came....

There is a biograghy of the Bible character, Joseph. He had powerful dreams as a boy, but his brothers looked @ them as power trips. His father looked @ him as his favorite. Sold by his brothers, thought dead by his dad, he was sold into slavery. He became the kings right hand & his dreams came true as he was over his brothers enough to control their very lives! He FORGAVE and stated that what his brothers purposed for evil, God made it good.

That is now true in my life. I have loved a family for 20 years, now. They were everything to me. I used to stay @ their house during the weekends to go to church functions and then it was just to be part of them. There was 3 years with them & 2 years we moved to different states. I married & they moved where I was & happiness for 4 years... then... the mom & dad have one of their grandkids get molested! It was not resolved by the accused disappearing & thus bitterness set in. They disowned the chuch & all those in it including me & my family! 2 weeks later I had #3 child & no congrads from them. I was now not exsistent. As Joseph brothers, they meant it for punishment for nothing I did, but GOD used it to remove us from their twisted future of family insest, divorce, abuse, adultery, murder. I just was updated 10 years later with no clue of their lives previously. The death of whom was my brother and husbands closest friend... I am speachless. As Joseph I love them all still so deeply. Though, I am convinced that the statement is true... God used the seperation for good. We have been nothing but bleessed from their presence. What situation in your life can you relate this story to?