Good morning and happy Friday. How long do we wait for God? Do we just give up at a point and say well I guess it's not gonna be? How do we know the answer is no or if its not yet?  I wish I had an answer, but apparently 4 1/2 plus years isn't too long. I think that for the most part it's about our continual relationship with God. When we stay in touch with our family and friends its easy to know what's going on and needs that may be needed to be met or joys to be celebrated. When it's been a while since we've seen them or talked its hard to have conversation other than catching up kind of news, it doesn't become very personal and close till the gap of time gets closed. I think when we realize that God made us for Himself, we could better understand the relationship we should have with Him. I've made a thousand promises to my kids over the course of their lives, some kept and some still to come. They ask about them every once in a while and about the status of it happening. Nothing big, but still important to them. Unlike God, I can't just make things happen so some will have to wait but they aren't discouraged by how long. We have a relationship. Draw near to God. He asks us to do so. He wants to be all you want Him to be. Be prepared to follow His plan and the direction He is leading you though. You will not win against God. So why not follow along the way that has already be won? In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Thursday. Coincidence or God? Fate or luck? How easy is it to forget or look past God in action, to see His hand in things today? When we read the Bible we easily see how things were put together to bring about the things prophesied. Out of the blue, Augustus decides to count all the people so that brings Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem out of Nazareth. No big deal unless you know about what all was said about Jesus coming from there. But those things are easy to see from our perspective today because we're looking back. Isn't it also in the Bible that God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow? So if He was doing those kinds of things then ( yesterday ) isn't He still doing those things today and continue on in the future? We are surrounded by His miracles everyday and some wonder where He is in their life. The question is right except the emphasis is on their life and not where is He. Where is He in our life, first, second or even in it at all? That's for us to do. He's been there since the dawn of days so it must be us. I don't believe in luck or coincidence any more like I did when I was younger. Even my golf ball bouncing just right off a tree is not luck. It's how well I use that opportunity to make an errant shot turn out to be a great day at the golf course.  In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Wednesday. What if your prayers get answered? I'll make it easier, what if your biggest prayer is answered the way you would like it to be? Lets leave off the table the health of someone close to you, because those involve a lot of people praying the same thing. You're biggest prayer for yourself, something for you and you alone gets the answer you want? Now what?  How do we change or do we? Does it become a testimony to God's goodness? Do we just keep it locked away and to ourselves so no one knows we prayed it? I'm in the middle of that happening right now and after today and the final stuff is done I will be letting you know how it all turned out. I can't help but feel that a lot of people have let their story of God in their lives die or simply not acknowledged Him being present. As big is our prayers can be, we seem to only let it be known when the big one gets answered. Oh I know it should get some extra bells, hoots and hollers and such but we need to remember the everyday small things He does for us and make those our testimony and praise to Him. Maybe it's the big ones He uses to push us to speak out. Lets all be a voice of God in this world. We all know it could use more of it. In love always <><. 

Good morning and happy Tuesday. Not much to say today except. GOD IS GOOD, always. More to come later. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Monday. Why and when does God answer prayer? Your guess is as good as mine. The one thing I do know is, it is in His time and His time alone. Some may be answered immediately because He's been waiting for us to talk to Him and others because the timing is just not right yet. The first though, of waiting on me to ask Him saddens me most. To think that He's been waiting to "help" or do for me but I haven't asked Him. Then when I do, I feel like that's all I come to Him with is my needs and wants. But wait that's what we mostly do. To think that He is holding an answer to a prayer because I haven't prayed to Him also means I must be trying to do this on my own and without Him. But the one He's waiting to answer is the one that makes me the happiest, at least now that I have grown up some. This is the one He's letting me grow, mature and be ready for. It's the one He's wanting all things to be right so that we can be blessed and people will see Him in it because we gave Him the glory before the answer arrived. We're always ready to pray for others, at least we say we'll be praying for them. How often do we go to Him on our own behalf just to talk out the day and how things went and are going?  When we get to that stage of it all, our prayers to Him are simple conversations and the understanding of the timing to answers is gotten. I like it when He's grooming us and preparing us for the answer to a long awaited prayer. It means we're ready and pleasing to Him so that we may do what it is He is blessing us for, to bless others. In love always. <><