Hope

Hello Blog friends and family....

I am so thankful I can eat a salad today because... ,let me just say, yesterday any thought of food would not have been good. I spent all day in either the bathroom or the bed with an upset stomach and nauseousness and I couldn't seem to function very well or walk without feeling dizzy. I am grateful that today I can drink water and keep it down and eat mild things like salad, that I mentioned above, and a big mac, french fries, a chocolate milk shake, a donut, an apple, and some really good friendship bread with cream cheese frosting....(hey, I had to make up for the lack of food in my system yesterday).

So anyway I wanted to thank my friend Kristen for watching the kids on Friday. My man, P, and I were suppose to go to see Fiddler on the Roof but the performance was packed out so we couldn't get in. We went to a Mexican Restaurant and ate lots of chips and cheese dip and almost fell asleep in the booth. Today, I went again to try and see the play but the auditorium was packed and they wouldn't let anyone else in...

So I came home and cleaned the house while the kids and daddy were out. It gave me time to reflect on the message today at church. It was about Hope...

The pastor touched on a subject that is not preached about very often, but as believer's losing hope is common. It was something I needed to hear because in reality, I lose hope in my relationship with God, my family, and friends when things aren't going well for me. He said that hope can be a remedy to depression and I believe that to be true because when I am depressed I feel like there is no hope and I just focus on the situation that caused me to be depressed. He also said that hope is the rope of expectation that connects us to the future. It is the capacity to release the joy needed to carry us through and to keep us building. He focused on Jeremiah 29:11, "For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." There are times in our lives where we go through the same old situations that we are trying to fix and we keep going deeper and deeper into the same old pit and we don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. He said that God is working in you to try to bring up the root of the problem and to release it in order for you to advance to the next step. He said to stop looking at the problem or situation that your in and start looking for God in the mix of the problem, because He is in there working it out somehow.
Another thing that he spoke about was that hope is a multi-generational process. It is something that can be passed down to our young ones as we seek to go after the hope that the Lord is calling us to in our lives.
I hope to post the link to hear it online. It was alot better than what I am posting here.

I hope to post some not me's tomorrow. In the meantime, I will hope and prayer for the best in your lives and please continue to remember me in your prayers too!!

P.S. Z asked me tonight, "What is God's favorite verse?" And I said probably all of them and then she said it is probably John 3:16....I'd say that might just be on the top of His list!!!