Remembering

Isaiah 43:12 says "Forget the former things; do not dwell in the past."

As we yet come to another end of a decade this is what my New Year resolution is going to be...I have been asked already what do you want to change in 2010? Didn't really know exactly what it was until now...we always want to lose weight (which I still do) but I also wanted to do that before Jan 1 and couldn't get motivated and so didn't...my goal a couple of years ago was not to go shopping so much and stay home more...well that really didn't happen either...be more organized....

I have a tendency to always want to look back...not necessarily wanting to go back but wishing that I would have done things different, not said the things that I said, not did the things that I did...but as I sit here blogging no matter what I do, or think, or try I can not go back..not even for a moment..why then do I forget when I know that I can still mess up...and then look back and think oh my word...why did I just do that or why did I just say that???

The last 10 years have brought a lot of changes into my life...8 grandchildren were born..oldest granddaughter got married and moved to Chicago added 2 more grandchildren to our family...Everett retired..our president was a first for our nation...the threat of our safety has been a real issue, gay marriages, on and on...the fall of the banks, auto industry..but you know if we look back is it really any different...the depression, the dust bowl days..W.W. 1 and W.W. 2 ask our veterans how it was back then...Vietnam..

There are things that we will always remember and there are things we would all like to forget..but the Bible says we should not dwell on the past...but march forward..keeping Heaven in our sight at all times if we are believers...that is how I want to start living my life...totally..pressing on...persevering keeping my eyes on the prize...

Now the next 10 years will again bring many changes...one being sometime in the next 10 I will be retiring...right now it kinda scares me...but I know when the time comes I will be ready...

Now one other thing I have to work on is my blood pressure...went back to the Doc yesterday and it was up again and has been....I inherited this from my Mother...
I have to get motivated and get to excising again...when will it be warm???

So looking ahead...putting the former things behind...I am going to press onward...

Happy 2010

When???

When do all the changes take place? When do we all of a sudden change our views on things, when do things that use to excite us,excite us no more? Does it happen during the daytime hours or does it happen at night when we are sleeping.

How can one day we be young and full of energy and full of hopes and dreams for the future and trying to decide what we want to do with our life and hope that all turns out for the best striving along and hoping that tomorrow will be better or different from today and then tomorrow comes and is it??? Do we start off each day believing that maybe today is the day our dreams might come true whatever those dreams are...you hear people say..one of these days...or you know right now I am so happy I can't even imagine anything going wrong...or changing..

You know seems like yesterday I had those same dreams, dreams of the future what they had in store for me...dreams of peace and contentment...happy to be where I am, kinda just settling down and taking it easy for a change instead of trying to keep up with everything and everyone else...well you know what??? When you get here, and that being where ever here is it doesn't happen...well life is easier now for the most part...but still there are things that still don't feel totally settled..and I don't think this side of heaven ever will...and for that I am thankful knowing that someday..it will be perfect...

I can look in the mirror and wonder where did the time go and when did all this happen...and then I ponder on and thank God for each day that He has given me and all the blessings.....this Christmas season I want to remember Baby Jesus and what His life meant for me...and take the focus off of me and put it on HIm the one who saved me....

BELIEVE

How many times a day do we use this word and what does it mean?
We can hear something that is being said and we say "Oh yea I BELIEVE that"
Or we can be talking and someone can tell us something, what comes to my mind and when I hear of someone passing away and we say "Oh no I just can't BELIEVE that.
Or when someone is getting a divorce we might say "Do you BELIEVE that, they have been married for 25 years..
Or perhaps we might hear of someone on the news that maybe had 6 or 7 babies and we say "WOW can you BELIEVE 6 babies"
Or someone says " I have lost 30 lbs...but maybe we might look at her and think to ourselves "I don't BELIEVE 30 lbs maybe 20....
Or maybe just maybe something terrible has happened...like a terrorist attack or maybe a bad car wreck...so someone really sick or been diagnosed with cancer and we have a really hard time BELIEVING that...

Now then those of us that are born again believers that confess that Jesus is Lord and that He was born of a virgin (which we are now going to celebrate) and that He died for our sins and was buried but rose again on the 3rd day...and we say that we believe..how many really BELIEVE????

WE can believe..but the real test comes when we put all our trust in HIM...ALL our TRUST....not just for our eternal life but for our day to day life here and now..that we can count on Him to take care of ALL our needs ALL our concerns!

When friends and people let us down we know that if we BELIEVE with ALL our hearts, soul and might...that Jesus NEVER WILL let us down....

This season as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, and that is what this time is all about...not about the presents that we give each other but it is about the present that God gave us in His Son...if only we BELIEVE!!

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who so ever BELIEVES in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life...