Blah, Blah, Blah!!!: Pencils

Friday, July 5, 2013

Pencils

I am trying to blog again. Right now, however, I feel like that proverbial fish that is out of the water. I can't remember how to do certain things...I want to add a picture, and I have no idea how to do it! Bear with me, folks, as I try to regain my "blogging groove"!

Yay! Success! This isn't exactly like "riding a bike", but it's starting to come back to me a little bit!

I am toying with the idea of starting a brand new blog, with a brand new name. Do any of you have a catchy name? I'm also trying to pinpoint the focus of my blog. In the past, I have just chosen random topics. Some blogs are very specific; they have one focal point and they don't deviate. My blog has always been all over the map...I wrote on things I observed or things I had been dealing with or thinking about and because of that, this blog has always covered a multitude of random topics. I think that is the path this blog will continue to take. Meanwhile, I will share with you a thought from Mother Teresa. Her words seem to capture the intent of my heart and my reason for sharing my thoughts with the world.

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world."

3 comments:

Blah, Blah, Blah! said...: Keep doing it the way you did it.
That way we get to know you better.
Bill; July 5, 2013 at 9:05 PM
Henry said...: Just Keep On A Blogging. you will never lose your Special Touch
Don't change things How you did it before was AWESOME so why screw it up by trying something new.
Don't just start it KEEP IT GOING You are no quitter. Hang in there baby you come too far too soon to give it up so KEEP IT UP AND GOING
henry; July 6, 2013 at 11:40 PM
nancy said...: Hey baby sister I am so glad you are going to blog again! I for one always love the way you write and express yourself! You have such a special gift for story telling and making whatever the subject is so interesting and fun to read!! I have no clever new name or other suggestion I loved it just the way it was !!!!! love you!!; July 7, 2013 at 9:59 PM

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One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.
--Jerry Bridges

God is doing a greater work in us, and that can only come as we learn to trust Him no matter how dark the days and sleepless the nights. And it is only as we have been through the darkness with Him that what we know with our heads slides down into our hearts, and our hearts no longer demand answers. The “Why?” becomes unimportant when we believe that God can and will redeem the pain for our good and his glory. . . . When I put the sovereignty of God beside His unfailing love, my heart can rest.
--Verdell Davis

Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God's goodness, rooted in His character, is the same.
--Helen Grace Lescheid

All of us have wondered at times why God doesn't do more to fix our problems. But our human eyes often fail to see that God isn't rushing to change our circumstances because he is concerned with a much more serious problem -- our character. While you struggle with the woes of this world, God's main occupation is preparing you for the world to come. The focus of what God is doing in your life takes place in you, not around you.
--Andy Stanley, in "Like A Rock"

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.
--Alan Redpath

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this: irritations get into his shell . . . . and when he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only prescription: make a pearl . . . . And it takes faith and love to do it.
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

What a difference it makes when a trial comes, to see in it not the hand of an avenger, but the loving discipline of a father and the gentle admonition of a mother! God would not have us feel even the shadow of His anger. Judgment hardens the spirit and God never wants to break the spirit of His obedient child, but to win us by His love and transform us by the gentleness. Beloved, let us ever look upon our trials in the tender light of the Father’s love. It is not the token of His displeasure, but the very pledge of His jealous love, a love so inexorable that it will not let us miss His holiest and best.
--A. B. Simpson

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