Be encouraged! Things have been interesting lately. It’s funny how you get comfortable in a place and then realize that you have to move if you plan to go anywhere or do anything. Most people see me as a positive person. I believe I am a positive person. I love to encourage people and help where I can. I’ll be the first one to tell you that you can do it! Sometimes this leads people to believe that I have everything going for me and I don’t have any issues. Wrong! There are just things that I cannot speak about at this time. I am refusing to give my issues any airtime except with my Father. I believe that as I serve Him he provides for my every need. Recently I had a problem where I was sure that God had said yes to me. I acted appropriately. I worked on my part of this but I depended on God for the other part. But guess what? It didn’t happen. What I thought I saw in my head didn’t happen. The ball dropped. What I anticipated wasn’t where I thought it would be. I’ve chosen to give God Glory anyhow. I know that I’m not alone when I say that God’s ways are not our ways! His thoughts not our thoughts. I will still continue to believe him because delay is not denial. Look at Job: he lost everything! All his children and property. The only thing that stayed around was his nagging wife who wanted him to curse God and die. And his friends who encouraged him in the wrong thinking. Despite the odds he still came out with the victory. He got double for his trouble. I have been given so much in this life. Each morning that I can awake in a warm house with a comfortable bed and a kind husband is a really good day. I’ve been afforded employment and a way to get 3 kids through school-still working on the 3rd one but it’s all good. I have a car to get me around and above all else MY GOD LIVES and LOVES ME! So, am I disappointed that things didn’t work like I thought? Of course I am! I’m human. We suffer disappointment and being a Christian doesn’t remove that from your life. What’s important to remember is that even in disappointment God still rules. Even when sorrow is at your front door God still reigns. When it seems, all hope is lost God is still on the throne. It’s not too late. God’s timing is the perfect timing. Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 speaks of the timing of all things. To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born and a time to die etc… For the record, I’m not writing this to receive some Christian sympathy. I am victorious in Christ. His word says so in II Timothy 2:14 where it says that God causes me to triumph in Christ. He is a God of the hills and the valleys and I’m not alone. You aren’t either. I will wait on Him. He will provide. Psalm 27:14 says it best “ Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say on the Lord!” Just keeping it Cristaclear….God Bless! ~