Better days ahead.

Psalm 27 is a story of hope I was asked to read it. In my valley of life I am trying to see who Lisa really is. I am suggesting you join me in reading that Psalm. I never wanted to walk down the divorce road neither did i think I would lose myself in the mess of trying to keep my marriage together. In all the trying and all the mess several things I have learnt without God I am nothing without Him I cannot make another day and without Honesty and Faith where is another day.
I search myself and find that the only answer is to Trust and hold on tight.
So whatever you are going through hold on tight there is a better day.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Hi my name is Lisa

Hi my name is Lisa but what does that exactly say until you start to listen to a person. I was born in Rochester Kent in 1967. I have lived in Lincolnshire, Rutland, Norfolk, Suffolk, Georgia and North Carolina. Until you sit down and take a moment to find out more than a name you will never know what a person is really about. I love the countryside and I love England but just from my name you would never know that. Taking a few moments to be a friend is priceless as I am going through my divorce I see that being a friend is priceless and that comforting words are everything.
It has made me see how many times I missed golden opportunities to be a friend to someone else.
So today ask someone a bit more than just what is there name in truth simply start being a friend it is priceless.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Family

It appears that however far one lives from your family that as soon as you hear that another one is hurting one's heart misses a beat. Well mine does. My family have a lot going on and my heart wants to go down the phone and hug each of them. But in life we all have to go through are on situations and are own trials. I look back to when I was a child and the three of us Kerry now 49, Scott 47 and Me 42 seams just yesterday that we were in the same house riding bikes or listening to music. Yet life has slipped by and a life time now separates us. A part of me wishes that time had stood still I was the youngest and I will have to say I loved the childhood I had not all of it but the fact I had a loving neighbor who cared so much about me. Growing up in the countryside was amazing and I would not trade that part of my life. It is still the same Aylmerton as it was all those years ago. Life may move on but to love another human being through difficult times is priceless and in that we are a much bigger family than the one I came from. I have God's family now that loves me and has shared more than my childhood and through it all I can see and love a family so much more than when I was Lee all those years ago.
So remember your family that you came from might not have the love you needed but the family that God provides you with has exactly what you need.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

The fight for the good fight

How many of us have issues in our life's which simply are not fair. It seams the harder you try to be fair and right the harder other people fight back with harsh words, sarcasm and lies using friends and manipulation to get their lies across. Yet in it all I do believe that there is a God who See's every tear dropped every aching heart and above all every motive. I do believe that even though it looks like the good fight is often so discouraging that when it is said and done the one who took the high road will be the one who comes out not necessarily the winner but at least the one with a pure heart. I will say it until the day I die divorce is not a road I would wish upon anyone it brings out the ugly and I know for me it feels like a continual slow death. But in saying that I do see how it draws a person closer to God if they are willing to see their mistakes.
So I say fight the good fight because Victory is mine says the Lord.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Hope

Hope is when everything is gone that is all you can hold onto as I walk through my life right now I feel that is what I hold onto every day. I have been so blessed to have some amazing friends to remind me.
When you have nothing to hold onto remember if you have a tiny bit of Faith I know you can make it. God will give you the rest you can make it.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

To all those alone on Valentines you are not so alone.

I have decided to write my blog for tomorrow today. Tomorrow will be my first Valentine alone well literally. I went and had some hot chocolate today and saw a couple happy and laughing yet I sat all alone taking note I will never see my 50Th anniversary or 75Th unless I live to be very old. I may never fly a plane or go to the Oscars I may never climb a mountain. But in all those never. I remembered I was not alone. My brother lost his wife last year someone may have lost their child or a relative others in my divorce care group are losing seeing their children their marriage others have lost their homes and in all that loss there is a pain. It is not that we want to feel the way we do it is that we simply have no answers. So perhaps one day I will fly perhaps one day I will go to the Oscars .I do know for sure that Today all of us are not so alone. I asked a friend if I could go to church with her tomorrow so I would not be alone. I ask for all of you reading this say a pray for all of us who feel alone. Yes Jesus is with us and I hold onto that living each day by grace but we all need a little support on days like Valentines.
So to all who I know who are going through tough times I want to tell you you are not alone you are in my thoughts and above all there will be better days ahead because I do believe God is holding your hand very tight and this might be a lonely Valentine but God has you in His Hands.
Happy You Day friends.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Honesty how much it means to you.

A friend talked about someone who was famous then added they are famous because they lie. Another time I meet them they said that if we offended each other we should always be honest. The words haunted me to be honest a few years back I sat in a counseling room with someone who said what was the big deal about honesty. The truth surely is honesty is huge also when all is said and done I do not want to be remembered for that I was famous for not telling the truth.
Through all what is going on in my life I truly see how people are I see what defines them. Another friend of mine says that their view is to be Christ like they are who I strife to be.
Striving every day to be your best for Christ makes us famous in drawing near to Him and honest that without Him we are simply nothing.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Alone in a room full of people

Last night I was around a group of married people for a while. I felt very alone, I did not think I would feel like that. I wondered where I belonged now. The things they mentioned about kids picking up toys seamed so simple to the issues I was facing yet years ago that was just my concerns. I was consumed by everything looking perfect. Now a days my days are consumed with surviving this fast train I am on. I am not sure where I belong in all of this. I do know that I am very blessed even if I feel very alone.
So even if I don't know where I belong I do know that God is looking after me. To Him I belong He See's how hard it is to sit in a crowd to hear a couple laugh to see a smile as a man hugs his wife. All normal but so far from my life at the moment.
Perhaps I have learnt it is alright to have things not picked up alright to not wash a dish and alright above all to be just me because even in a lonely room I am everything to Christ.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

The pilot of life

We are all human it is so easy when a person is going through a trial to stand and be very pious. It is though the audience of life is waiting for your mistake to be made and they are quick to blow the whistle and say fowl. Yet if we step back for a moment we all make mistakes today I called a number by mistake does that mean that my phone should be cut off no it says I am human. God knew are imperfections and he still cared for us. A few weeks ago I meet a pilot off course as soon as they mentioned they use to fly to England I was very intrigued that pilot directs the plane he flies through sometimes treacherous weather yet no one says fowl play if he went a little to the west or the south to avoid turbulence yet if he dared caused a bumpy landing fowl would be heard. Where does Grace come into the picture. Perhaps people when you send an email and you wished you had not hit the send button should have a little grace at times in our lives when we like the pilot are trying are best to navigate through trying situations.
Today just think of a few people that you could give a little grace to and then take a moment to think how much God gives you every day.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Time to stand

How many of us really like to fight it is absolutely not me in any shape of form I would rather sit here drink tea and eat British sweets. But in looking at life sometimes that is not a choice. If David had not fought Goliath what would of happened. If Esther had not made a stand, if Jesus himself had not stood in the Gap where would we be. I guess in all of this Godly fighting is fine. Fighting for a cause when you know that with all your heart you have done your best is really making a stand not just for yourself but for what God has told you to do. As Christians we are not to just lie down and pretend to be dead we are to stand up for Christ. So whatever situation you are in in your life making a stand is alright just make sure you are on the right side. Esther was scared I am sure but her fear only lasted for a little time David won and Christ took it all.
Be encouraged and Be Strong
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Audacity or stupidity!

Some may say it is audacity some will say it is stupidity that as I sit here trying to keep my house from going into foreclosure I would dare to try. I like to think that God laid it upon my heart for a reason. In the moments that a mother runs into a house burning to rescue her child from the flames some might say insanity others stupidity I like think it is her human courage that See's beyond those flames. A man represents himself in court some say that is dumb others look at him and see strength but something in us comes out to say we need to fight for a certain cause.
Christ himself did not care what man thought he cared only that he was doing God's will.
I am not a fighter in fact I view myself as a Kum by yah type of person that wants everyone to get along. Yet here I sit fighting for myself and my girls. When my sister in law died last year of cancer i sent a story I had written The Pink Daisy of Hope everywhere and although it is not published yet something in me wanted to defend her life.
Audacity or stupidity you decide and I will leave the rest for God to make his decision about me.
In whatever situation you are in find inner strength in knowing that Christs went to the cross and look at our outcome because of His audacity I live and you do.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.