Life Seems So Burdensome Sometimes and Yet

Life can seem so heavy and burdensome can't it? It sure does for me... It is so easy to give up, to want to quit to think that this is all there is....Then my precious child or a whisper from an unseen angel will redirect my thoughts and remind me about the "hereafter"...  Yes! The hereafter with its promise of rest, of quiet and calm... With the promise of beautiful surroundings that have no blemish, no sick trees, dying animals or humans anywhere...The air is so crisp and clean, the waters so clear and blue... The lazy clouds drifting so softly by. You feel the strength of the environment strengthening you and filling you with life...Breathe it in!  Everywhere is perfection but not perfection that is overwhelming and discouraging to you by reminding you of your lack of, no, perfection that lifts you up and elevates you to join forces with it....This is our promise, our reward for completing the race! All traces of sin and its negative effects washed away by the blood of our Savior.... Oh the thoughts make all of this here seem so trival and so short lived when compared to eternity such as this....So friends look up, don't look down and see only the here and how, look up and see eternity....The view is so much better!

Souls of nature

Did you ever think about how every thing living you see has a soul? Not a human soul but nonetheless a soul...Things cannot live without a soul.  It hit me how God is so awesome that He even has to think to create everything. Every non living thing and all living plants: animals, plants of all kinds...He has to take a moment to think of each one then to fashion and shape it into something living...It also hit me how these things were meant for something better than what we have left for them. I truly believe that these things will also receive their reward for suffering alongside of us. They are the silent sufferers in this exile world of ours...I know that our great God will also bless them in the new future....

GG

Sounds of Heaven

Thinking alot of heaven....Always!  Anyways this time was thinking on something human that surely is a small refection of what goes on eternally and awaits us as well...Music! Singing. I know personally that when I am really happy I sing or cry or both! When I hear beautiful music anywhere I am uplifted to heights I cannot describe. Music takes us to such heights...Heaven is full of sound, lovely, lovely sounds...Music and singing that is motivated by the intense joy that fills the hearts and souls of those who are part of this wonder called heaven.  This brings to mind something that may slip your attention, WOW! Do we walk around here daily singing and uplifted like this? We can't! We in our poor human form cannot physically handle this much emotion. If we had to continuously "endure" continuous joy we couldn't  we'd physically get sick or die from the stress.  We cannot endure so much joy until we are in our resurrected bodies! This if you follow it further then can you imagine being this happy that you are always singing for pure joy....Just had to share it...Hope I communicated it ok.

I'm Still Here!

Life has hit me hard...Had to leave a 15 relationship due to realizing it was abusive...Now on top of it all fighting to protect my two angels from the same abuser...Its the scariest thing ever for me... I will be back at some time but it may be awhile again...

Peace...

GG

Some People Just Don't Get It!

Ever notice how some people just don't get it? They act like this life is it? Like there is nothing more after this. Hence they just do whatever they want, live for the moment, treat others like they are dirt, pamper their bodies like they are some kind of god....Its disgusting actually. Still they will try to aquire all they can here every comfort, every good thing with no regard to healthy restraint. They are you could say almost "piggish" with the things they desire and go after without regard to others or how they appear in their greed. We who are heaven bound must NOT get caught up in this! How slippery is the slope! How hard to not fall into  this even a little. And yet as I witness this too close to home it is so clear and so disgusting to see such things. It is a strong reminder to be strong, to finish the race! To see as GOD sees things not as we mere mortals tend to. We are blind! We cannot see beyond the veil and yet it EXISTS! Heaven exists! We must believe, we must not falter! Keep the faith alive, do not lose hope! Yes, we will fail here and there but we must get up and keep looking up not down! Our reward will come and it will be far better than any earthly reward we could ever hope to obtain here.  We must not let others choices influence our own. Even if we stand totally alone it must be done! We must not falter! We must hang on till our last breath so as to win the crown that awaits ALL those who seek it with faithful hearts!

Peace!

GG

These Weary Bodies of Ours...

Ever feel like your physical form is dragging you down, keeping you back from "living"? I sure do. Sometimes just the munedaness of having a physical body is almost more than can be born. We are so clumsy, so slow, too bulky if you will...It makes me think of how someday we are going to have bodies that aren't heavy and clumsy. Ones that the legs are nimble as are the fingers! We will be able to get places quickly not in a car or plane but just by thinking of being there! We will be light and airy, not heavy and bulky getting in our own way! Things will all work right and not against us. Are brains will always be sharp and quick, no dull days.  We won't be achy or feel ill anywhere. We won't feel fatigued after a long day like now. Its amazing to think of the change we will experience. I truly believe that all that we experience is part of the fall, part of the curse of that first mistake...Someday God is going to redeem that punishment as well...Oh I can't wait!!! Sometimes just having a body like this is such a burden, a heavy one that your soul just battles with. One wanting to move and fly the other just lumbering along... How long oh Lord, how long? I know we will ALL be so grateful when the time finally arrives for us and all will be as a distant, faint memory if a memory at all... So until then faithful friends hang on, lumber on and know that your liberation awaits!

GG

Like A Parched Desert....

Like a parched desert O Lord my soul is longing for you .... Nothing here satisfies my soul, all is as dust and nothing to my taste.  I feel as a lost pilgrim wandering this earth with no real place to call home...Why O Lord must it be this way?  Is it because You so long for our love? Is it because You so long for us to finally see You? Is it because if we are restless here then we will better focus on You? Perhaps it is so. Yet we are asked to be happy here, to rejoice even...It is hard when all is so full of turmoil, pain and great effort to even achieve the smallest accomplishments. Perhaps that joy comes when You manifest in small ways and large sometimes too HOW great is Your longing for us with kind little "God Winks" as a dear friend calls them. Perhaps the joy is from knowing HOW great is Your love for us small human creatures. Nothing more than the dust I feel like surrounds me are we humans. How long O Lord, how long? A short life can seem like an eternity when your spirit is in pain and filled with longing for You. How long O Lord, how long till we see Your beautiful face finally and permanently? O Lord my soul is yearning for You with a longing that human words cannot properly express...If only my beautiful daughter and I could be assured of Your permanent prescence for eternity that alone would suffice to bear all that seems to be my fate here... Help me Lord to muddle through this parched desert and find the eternal fountain of Your love....Amen.