I have to be honest, last week was a really hard week for me. I wrote several blogs for my  Thankful Thursday but I did not  post  any of them.  They were just not right. Frankly, most were just too sad.

Needless to say, writing and finding just the blog can take work.  Sometimes they are easy to write and sometimes they are not.  This was indeed the later.

As I said, it was a hard week for me.   But I finally wrote a blog I felt was perfect and ironically, when I finally finished it and was ready to hit publish, my computer crashed and the screen burned and finally died.  It seemed to be the perfect ending for a perfectly hard Thankful Thursday.

So today I am sharing these words written last week.

Tears have flowed more than I have wanted them too. Unfortunately, when I cry I get this crazy rash around my eyes.  I look pretty horrible .  In fact, when my mom died one of my dear friends said “If I looked like that when I cried I would never cry again.”  That pretty much says it all. Right?

So I tried really hard not to cry to much when my father died just 15 months later.  That worked well.  NOT!  Thank God for huge big sunglasses.  I just love them -both the sunglasses and my parents.

As I said there  have been many wonderful and happy moments this week, but there have also been many very sad ones.

Such as, I missed my mom and dad’s sweet voices calling the youngest SON on his birthday at 6 a.m. to sing him Happy Birthday.  I hurt for my childhood friend who lost his wife several weeks ago and he is still grieving the loss.   My heart also aches for my friend whose mother is dying.  Her mother was a Yankee and she was much like my mom, one who was wonderful to her children and was there whenever she needed her.  My heart was sad for a friend who died of ALS right when the Bucket Challenge was in high gear.  I  also hurt when I am coaching my clients and they are hurting.

Although it is a wonderful day, my heart still hurts.  That is just me being honest.

A prayer that always gives me comfort during difficult and trying times is a prayer that a dear friend sent me.

Pain, change,transition, death and hardships are an ever present part of the journey of life.  But this week  my heart was deeply grieved when hearing of the execution of the journalist James Foley as well as seeing all the war and fighting all over the world.  Even the SONS were grieved.  They knew this heinous act was just that.
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Crying is a normal part part of life and I don’t mind crying some, but I do not like to cry a lot.  But this story just broke my heart as I am sure it did many others. My heart was and is broken for his parents and for the hate that is ever present in our world.  I was touched to hear James Foely’s parents speak with such love and compassion in the midst of such a tragedy.

Whatever we are going through in our life we must remember that God is not taken by surprise. I know this is sometimes not so easy to believe.  But he knows right where you and I are and what you are going through. He knows our pain, our heartache and our suffering.

So this week I have cried a lot.

But I know we live in perilous times and  I choose to keep my heart focused on Christ.  On love,  grace, hope and mercy.

As a mother and as an American on this Thankful Thursday I am so thankful we live in a free country.  But there are many all over the world that are not free and are suffering from the hands of evil people.  There  are many who hate America and hate Christians.  But we must stand firm in our faith and trust God that He is mighty to save.

The following  prayer was given to me many years ago by a dear friend and it always seems to give me great comfort during difficult times like these.

This was seen posted on a mirror in Austin, Texas… a bit of inspiration. 

Zephaniah 3:17  “The Lord your God is with you.  He is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you.  He will quiet you with His love.  He will rejoice over you with singing.”

Lord God, You have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through the perils unknown.  Give us the faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go, but only that your hand is leading us and your love is supporting us.  Through Jesus Christ our Lord we pray with confidant assurance.  Amen. 

I pray you are  blessed you on this Thankful Thursday and although we live in perilous times I pray we can see the good around us always. I pray that you always feel safe in the cross of Christ and that work to bring peace and hope to others.

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