I don't have to hear her voice...to know she is discouraged!
Tired of fighting
against giants, losing hope, losing faith in herself!
It comes thru in the
words she types! I am sure with each stroke of the key a tear falls! I can see
it running down her cheek. Salty ,slowly, sliding...disappearing...no easing of
her sadness! Another follows. Tears of
hopelessness! Tired.. tired..girl!
I want to cry! I want to hold her and make it all better! "Mean ole world mommy will fix it!"
Oh, that I could. That I could protect her like years before...a cut, a scrape, mean kids, lost boyfriends...did I prepare her enough for the real world I wonder...too late!
My words sound empty! I tell her that David beat Goliath in a battle ...he wasn't in that battle alone. God was with him! I tell her God is working the middle of her darkness and despair! But will that help! She tells me, she hasn't lost faith in God ....again she says just in herself!
Despair. Falling Into a pit. What words can I give her! How do I give her strength a thousand miles away? A phone. A computer ...that's as close as we can get.
And then I remember the words from a song, "turn your Eyes upon Jesus"...
I tell her...focus on what you are thankful for! Make a list! And then thank God for those precious gifts! You have so much to be grateful for! Focusing on being thankful lifts you right out of the pit!
God wants us to be Thankful! Romans 1:21, 24 says " for they knew God, but neither would they glorify Him as God nor worship Him...so God abandon them.
And being Thankful in the hard times as well as the good times is what He wants! Especially the hard times...that's where your faith in Him meets the road! Faith a game changer!
And having faith tells.... no shows him you are with Him for the long haul! You will not leave Him just because you are in the midst of a storm! Because you know after the storm passes...comes a rainbow.....Another gift from a God who loves you!
Stay with in Him. Stay in Him! He is your shelter!
I want to cry! I want to hold her and make it all better! "Mean ole world mommy will fix it!"
Oh, that I could. That I could protect her like years before...a cut, a scrape, mean kids, lost boyfriends...did I prepare her enough for the real world I wonder...too late!
My words sound empty! I tell her that David beat Goliath in a battle ...he wasn't in that battle alone. God was with him! I tell her God is working the middle of her darkness and despair! But will that help! She tells me, she hasn't lost faith in God ....again she says just in herself!
Despair. Falling Into a pit. What words can I give her! How do I give her strength a thousand miles away? A phone. A computer ...that's as close as we can get.
And then I remember the words from a song, "turn your Eyes upon Jesus"...
I tell her...focus on what you are thankful for! Make a list! And then thank God for those precious gifts! You have so much to be grateful for! Focusing on being thankful lifts you right out of the pit!
God wants us to be Thankful! Romans 1:21, 24 says " for they knew God, but neither would they glorify Him as God nor worship Him...so God abandon them.
And being Thankful in the hard times as well as the good times is what He wants! Especially the hard times...that's where your faith in Him meets the road! Faith a game changer!
And having faith tells.... no shows him you are with Him for the long haul! You will not leave Him just because you are in the midst of a storm! Because you know after the storm passes...comes a rainbow.....Another gift from a God who loves you!
Stay with in Him. Stay in Him! He is your shelter!
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