learn to trust God completely, knowing He is in control and all things work together for His glory

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

and hold my heart

I was just handed the final paperwork.
as of 4 week from now, I am officially based in New York and I will have to commute 600 to get to work.
This isn’t my idea of what’s best, but God doesn’t work in my box.
I’ve been praying for a few changes at work…
not quite in this direction … lol
but I know when I ask for something, God will give me what I need.
I’ll let God handle what direction He wants to go in order to get there

nothing happened the way it was suppose to
my son had to leave a day earlier the was planned so I didn’t get the one on one time with him that I had planned.
My daughter announced that she and her son were leaving tomorrow, to spend time with a friend in another state and will be looking at moving there… she just got home.. why is she leaving again?

can I push a re-do button and start this day over?

it’s out of my control
I’m glad it’s not out of Gods

remember

Jeremiah 17:7-8
Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose trust is the Lord. For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.

I just found out I’m being transferred to NY in May. a bit of a shock as just a short month ago I thought I was losing my job. Now I know it’s safe, but I will have to live apart from my family half the month, and money will be even tighter as I will have to rent a place in NY too.
It’s easy to worry, stress and complain about all that is going on. but it doesn’t change it and it doesn’t help.

It’s amazing the peace you have when you give you problems to God.

God constantly amazes me!!
I’m overwhelmed
sometime there just aren’t even words to express
How GREAT is His love

it’s been one of those times when everything happens at once
as soon as I set the phone down, it rings again with more bad news
Some of it involves the whole family. Some of it is more specifically aimed at me … but none of it has been good.
Most of it wasn’t even thing that I could discuss with friends or even family… its pretty overwhelming when you can’t even tell the people in your own house of a major tragedy in another family members life… sigh
I felt pretty alone
but God has an amazing way of giving us just what we need, just when we need it. Never too much, but always enough.
Just as he provided for the Hebrews in the desert as they escaped from Egypt. We look back and say “why did they complain? Didn’t they see Gods power, that He was in control and was providing their every need?”
Can we see the same thing?

here are tqo verses God gave me this last week

Psalms 57:1-2

Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,
For my soul takes refuge in You; And in the shadow of Your wings
I will take refuge Until destruction passes by.
I will cry to God Most High,
To God who accomplishes all things for me.

Psalms 94:14

For the Lord will not abandon His people,
Nor will He forsake His inheritance.

sometime
we just need to remember Who is in control
Psalms 25:5
guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,and my hope is in you all day long.
perspective

even _{or especially} in the storms

These last few days have been crazy hard. I had to watch many worker get laid off last week and say good bye to friends that I have worked closely with for years. Then just yesterday another wave of lay offs was announced to begin in January. I have know idea where it will stop, rummer has it that it wont, that the company is being slowly absorbed into another. This rummer has been going around for a year now and in reality that is what it looks like, and even with my seniority level, I wont last for many more cuts … I feel like a blind man in the dark

funny thing … just as I started to feel that way
I read this verse

Isaiah 42:16
“I will lead the blind by a way they do not know, In paths they do
not know I will guide them. I will make darkness into light before
them and rugged places into plains. These are the things I will do,
and I will not leave them undone.”

I don’t think it is coincidence that I read this verse at this time, just when I had that ever thought of feeling like I was blind and groping in the dark go through my mind. I think it was God’s perfect timing. He knows our deepest thoughts and He has plans for us that we don’t even know about
How can we fear or worry when we know the God who created the universe is in control