'Normal Day'

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'Normal Day' - let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you & bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in a quest for some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I can, for it may not always be so. One day I might raise my hands to the sky & want, more than all the world, your peacefull return. ~Mary Jean Iron

This quote, speaks very deeply to my heart....and this is why -

A day can start out quite pleasant/uneventfull, and then we get a phonecall and the news it brings, may shatter our peace. But this doesn't need to be permanent.

As a mother/parent/friend..fellow life journier, I realise there isn't much in this life that I can control, except that which concerns myself.

When it concerns others, I can give advice when asked, I can listen, I can encourage, but I can't walk any one elses walk.

Its hard to see our children,family & friends going through struggles. But really struggles in life are our greatest learning opportunities. I know the little wisdom I have aquired so far, has primarily come about through the valleys times in my life.

A councellor/college lecturer once told a class I was attending, this saying - "If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got", and this is so true.

Sometimes we can see bumps in the road coming for others before they do, and often saying what we think they should do, won't change anything.

Personally I don't know how I would get through this life without my faith.

'Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see' (Hebrews 11:1)

Being able to hand things over to God, and know that he hears and cares is a great comfort. It doesn't necessarily mean the situation will change dramatically for the person or situation being prayed for, because I am not God, I can't see the 'big picture'. I don't know the lessons a person may need to learn, or the areas they might have to grow in and, I don't know what they might truly want. I also don't know exactly how God is working in the situation. All I do know, is that 'he is at work',and that's my assurance.
I know God cares and answers all prayers...in his way and in his timing.

Conclusion:

Own whats yours, fix what you can, and release what you can't.

As for others, help where you can, pray for their needs and then release it. Worry just elbows out faith/trust & peace.

When we clutch anothers burden to our breast, we not only weigh ourselves down, but I belive we also block God's light from being able to enter in,
and when we can let it go in faith and trust God, we unlock the gate for the serenity to once again return and we are free, to live in 'this day'.

So when I have a 'normal day', without any cares or concerns, I am very very thankful, because who knows what tomorrow may bring?

Peace - Follower of the WAY