Hi Friend,
Sadly, it has
been some time since I have posted here.
I know there is so much to catch up on, but I will fill you in one
day, when the time is right. For now we
are always learning and growing and I hope that what I share will bless, inspire
and encourage you!!!
Love Debbie
Someone’s Gotta Give
Maybe you
have heard the expression, “every day is new with no mistakes in it”, well on
some days, speaking personally, that doesn’t appear to provide much comfort,
since the mistakes of yesterday can easily last well beyond tomorrow.
I recently experienced one of those days. I went to a job interview, for a position I
was excited about. I was thankful for
the opportunity and in all honesty I was hoping to leave a positive impression
with this organization about my abilities to perform with excellence in this
position. Somehow, during the course of the interview, my words came out all
wrong and I stumbled trying to say the right things, and then to add insult to
injury I could not seem to avoid sending the wrong message altogether. The questions caught me off guard and were
designed to reveal my weakness, and boy did I deliver.
I sadly walked away from the office wishing I
could go back and “repair” the damage, but sometimes when you are in a hole the
best thing to do is to STOP digging.
I have
mentioned a few times in this forum that I have a short memory so; thankfully I
stopped to reflect on the preceding day.
And as I did I remembered that just the day before I had whole heartedly
given the situation to the Lord. I
poured out my desire to follow Him and asked for His will to be done in my life
because I did not want my way but His! Someones gotta give. By that I mean I have to give up wanting and charting my way, to living within His plan and scheme. I have ALWAYS found His was is best but I seem to go on resisting. How goofy I can be, on one hand I emphatically ask for God's will over my own, then when it looks like it didn't come out the way I thought it should I get upset...go figure?
Now it is so
cut and dried, that is not what He wanted for me. Why did I feel so bad when I failed to
impress? I got so worked up about it for
no reason at all. I should add here that
the Lord did use this little “exercise” to reveal some things hidden in my
heart that needed to be exposed to His light and love. Things like pride, doubt and that desire to be my own tour guide.
Once again I
am so very grateful for His patience and how He gently corrects me and waits
while I catch up. I have so far to go
and there are days I would rather not look at it at all, but for His steadfast
presence in my life compels me to move with Him.
How about
you? Are there things that He has
revealed to you and you have forgotten or maybe even flat out are
ignoring? Friend, it is never too late,
you have never gone too far. No matter
what, you cannot outrun His love and dedication to you. Remember Him, turn around, He is waiting for
YOU! Now, that is GOOD NEWS!
