Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-9
How quickly I forget. My last blog was so low and bleak. If I had been walking on a sidewalk I would have needed a ladder to climb down and up through the cracks.
My wife is better. Still hurting, still struggling but up and moving. Not in bed 24/7. We went to Ohio last Sunday. We spent the afternoon in a large flea market called Traders World. For us this is like Disney World. All the items and people. New things, old things some cheap and others expensive. Still we had a great day. Two hour drive each way. Normally this kind of activity would put the wife in bed for at least three days. Not so. She went with me car shopping on Monday and did house work on Tuesday. Praise God!!! This is a big improvement. I am doing much better now that she is not suffering so. The weather is supposed to be wonderful for the next two weeks and then turn cold. I am not looking forward to that cold and it's effect on my wife.
Isn't it funny when things are bad I expect the worse to continue on a downward slide till obliteration. When things are good I enjoy them, but with the idea that this will not last long. I am well aware that nothing last forever but I always thought I was a glass half full as opposed to half empty kind a guy. Maybe not. When things are bleak its seems extremely so, and with promise to only get worse. I find myself preparing for the most negative outcome. Also it seems easy to feel sorry for myself and the situation I find myself mired in.
Keep these commandments on your heart tell them to your children share them keep them in every part of your life.
If I could remember all the blessings, all the miracles, all the good things that I have experienced because of my Savior things should not ever seem bleak. But alas poor Jim he never was able to rise above or can I?
I would like to pray at this time for God to help me change but as I am 58 years old and change comes hard now. I fear it would be dishonest to pray such a thing without more study and a determination to commit. Both of which I seems to be lacking the desire to attempt at this point in life.
I really love the song "Just as I am" but wonder if God really does.
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