Life's Path
“People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.” [Mother Teresa]
I took this from your blog Tiff. I really like this quote because I believe that in the end it doesn't matter about others and their "opinions" it matters about my heart and what the motive for why I do anything anyway is, and in the end it is "that in all things HE may have the glory!" I would only change that it say you WILL get hurt, not you MAY because the reality of life is that it is full of pain and suffering and there is only ONE TRUE help from these things.
If there is one thing that I have learned in my vast amount of time and experience on this earth (haha) is that life is disappointing. I can plan and make my path and decide each day what I am going to do and yet have no control. I am a pawn and I am just here to live my life the best I can for Christ. This use to frustrate me until I came to realization that there is so much freedom in this. I can go about my day/days and do what I think is my doing and I have a Father who already has my path set and loves me enough to give me exactly what I need for that time in my life. I know many many times I don't agree with that road and the obstacles He lays in front of me and I may never with some of those things. I do know that each obstacle has shaped and formed me to be who I am today and I would not change any of those hard things. I look back and I find that the times when I grew the most and when He showed me the reality of who He is was when I walked those paths alone. When I was stripped of everything but Him. When I felt I was at the end of my rope and there was no way I could move forward. He showed up. People will fail us, they will disappoint and most likely will not be there when we need them most, that may be cynical but it's the truth. However, God is always there, He never leaves, He never stops holding us or picking us up. He is God. I know I hope to never go back through the things I have and I also know that there are many new things and maybe much harder things lying ahead for me. I try to keep my mind set to the fact that I have a Father that loves me enough to allow me to go through them so that I can be drawn closer to Him. I say this now sitting with my two boys playing and a house full of love, a calling that I am blessed and challenged by, a husband who does anything for me and life is in a calm right now. I know that God is faithful and that the storm will come back around but Matt and I have a saying, "we know how to do hard, it is familiar" I find in times like now that it is harder to come to His feet, to pour my heart to Him, to "need" Him. How sad is that? I pray I can find that balance through every season of my life and that I show my gratitude and awe for the God I serve. If you are going through the storm of life right now, cling to Him, cry out to Him, look to Him. He won't disappoint, He will always be there in the middle of the night, when you are in pain, when you can't go further, when your heart is being torn in a million pieces. His love never fails and His mercy is new every morning! Amen!
I took this from your blog Tiff. I really like this quote because I believe that in the end it doesn't matter about others and their "opinions" it matters about my heart and what the motive for why I do anything anyway is, and in the end it is "that in all things HE may have the glory!" I would only change that it say you WILL get hurt, not you MAY because the reality of life is that it is full of pain and suffering and there is only ONE TRUE help from these things.
If there is one thing that I have learned in my vast amount of time and experience on this earth (haha) is that life is disappointing. I can plan and make my path and decide each day what I am going to do and yet have no control. I am a pawn and I am just here to live my life the best I can for Christ. This use to frustrate me until I came to realization that there is so much freedom in this. I can go about my day/days and do what I think is my doing and I have a Father who already has my path set and loves me enough to give me exactly what I need for that time in my life. I know many many times I don't agree with that road and the obstacles He lays in front of me and I may never with some of those things. I do know that each obstacle has shaped and formed me to be who I am today and I would not change any of those hard things. I look back and I find that the times when I grew the most and when He showed me the reality of who He is was when I walked those paths alone. When I was stripped of everything but Him. When I felt I was at the end of my rope and there was no way I could move forward. He showed up. People will fail us, they will disappoint and most likely will not be there when we need them most, that may be cynical but it's the truth. However, God is always there, He never leaves, He never stops holding us or picking us up. He is God. I know I hope to never go back through the things I have and I also know that there are many new things and maybe much harder things lying ahead for me. I try to keep my mind set to the fact that I have a Father that loves me enough to allow me to go through them so that I can be drawn closer to Him. I say this now sitting with my two boys playing and a house full of love, a calling that I am blessed and challenged by, a husband who does anything for me and life is in a calm right now. I know that God is faithful and that the storm will come back around but Matt and I have a saying, "we know how to do hard, it is familiar" I find in times like now that it is harder to come to His feet, to pour my heart to Him, to "need" Him. How sad is that? I pray I can find that balance through every season of my life and that I show my gratitude and awe for the God I serve. If you are going through the storm of life right now, cling to Him, cry out to Him, look to Him. He won't disappoint, He will always be there in the middle of the night, when you are in pain, when you can't go further, when your heart is being torn in a million pieces. His love never fails and His mercy is new every morning! Amen!
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made me think of my suffering compared with his (+ so many others) and convicted me of my faith or sometimes lack thereof.