Is it God talking or us?

As I sit here very tired I ask you this question how many times have you said oh God is saying something to me. I received a pretty rude email this week from someone who decided to play God and bring up issues from my past issues they knew little about. They said that they had prayed about it. But how many times do we really pray about things. My friends Sue and Susan often direct me to pray it is in those moments that I am still that I feel a peace. This week I was so blessed all the books for this years schooling were given to us. That is so God. The times I get to encourage a person who might lose their home or has lost their job that is God. The time I say thank you even in the small things. I consigned this week and instead of taking the clothes back I was going to donate.I decided to give them to someone her smile was like she had won the jack pot it was amazing in that moment it was true I did not have to have the writing in the sky God spoke and I did it. Often we simply do not do what God says because it is not us who is talking. I think we can see God talking to us in many things I home schooled my oldest when she was 5 and she was held back a year someone bought that up this week but do you know God has used her to touch so many people that she would never of been able to touch if it was not for my mistake and at the end of the day God could of told me that she would of needed to read but He was gracious enough to use her life in such an amazing way.
I may not be a huge author or of much importance but each day God has a plan for me I wished some days I knew what it was but one thing I know for sure if I stop for a moment I will know God is talking He has seen it all and He surely See's me a broken mess who needed Grace and for that I am thankful for.
Let God talk to your life you will be changed forever.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Old Fashioned Politeness.

It is amazing the amount of junk emails I receive and how rude people can be. I received a rude email the other day. It was from a professional. The title read Hope all is well and no news is good news and there in this email was a bill for a ridiculous amount. To me that is no professional simply someone who has not learnt the art of been polite who preys on the weak and uses those situations for their own gain. It is many a rich person or any person in life who has not taken the time to be polite and think of how another will feel at what they say. It is easy to not smile and not be polite at a cashier or open a door for a child. But it is in those moments that God shines through. We might not want to do it but going the extra mile counts. Call me old fashioned but I would rather be old fashioned and bring a smile to a persons face than feel I have left them feeling down. Trust me I have done that many a time.
Take the time to make a difference it will change your life too.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Chivalry

Where has chivalry gone. Long ago the word meant manners befitting a knight even in the 1930's we could look back and say there were men who were gentlemen. Perhaps the problem is today that men have become gentle men simply that no longer a knight. I see many women carrying the shopping out of the stores and packing the bags as well as trying to juggle the kids. Perhaps men think that just paying the bills is enough. Women want that all in one package. Where they are walked to their car where they are listend to and where bags are carried. Christ was the ultimate knight who saw good in even the adultress woman he lifted her heart out of the miery muck and gave her hope. Yet where is that today. I see little of that around. Boys at school where shirts all baggie and to be rude seams to be in the thing. But chivalry is what I think we all can do, bringing honor and dignity into our homes, schools and work places. Opening a door going the extra mile. Buying some groceries for someone in need perhaps, by one person going that extra mile that will bring chivalry back and a smile to women who long for those knights to come ridding into their lives.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

My blog. My books and ME

My blog has been one of the most inspiring things I have done. That and my stories it has helped me keep hold of an England I love and hold onto something I love doing. My books have made my life feel so alive at times. It has bought rainy days feel like that they could have been the best day of our lives. If I could ever have a job I would so love to write. I might be terrible at grammar but the stories I have make this world at times a happy place.
I don't know where you are today but look inside and find what makes you happy. My books have bought joy and if they end up on your lap one day I hope you will see why.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Fibs and Febby's

Fibs and Febby's. I like to make up stories for my children it is funny Lucy is a character in one of them I like to think that she is often like our conscience she oftens tells people that the Sunday school teacher would not like that. But how often do we hear the Lucy in our minds and shut her out. No it's not that bad. However not that bad leads to some problems down the road. Fibs and Febby's seam quite funny when you are 4 but how about when you are 44 it's not so funny to the people that those fibs and febby's hurt.
My stories have been a God send to my many rainy days. I encourage you to be honest Fibs and Febbys never rule weather you are 4 or 44. Enjoy been honest and the Fibs and Febbys will not rule.
Please have a cup of tea with me today

The Calling Whistle

Today we went to the pool. Every fourty-five minutes, there is a fifteen minute break for the kids. Most of them sit around the sides of the pool just waiting for the whistle to be blown so they can jump into the refreshing cool water. Some kids though, go and have a snack or just sit on the side. Even when the whistle blows, they just stay there like nothing happened. My question today is are you going to come when God calls you or are you going to not even see the little things God is calling you to do to help others. You could be the person who makes a difference in someones life, but that good change for someone else depends on you. And remember, watch out and have your heart open to God because God could be calling you next to do something for Him, even if it is just encouraging someone else it can still be used for God's glory.
Because what you do makes a difference, no matter how small.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.
Emily

Crying out.

The last few days. The girls and I have just cried out to God with all that is engulfing us. I will have to say it has lifted me up a little. A friend was very sweet and said something to brighten my day. My daughter and I cut the grass and both sat in exhaustion but both agreed we had done a great job. I think often we look for answers from certain people or places when often encouragement comes from the least expected places. A child's smile an encouraging word a hug when the clouds keep rolling in.
So keep crying out and keep on walking the sun I believe is going to shine soon in our lives.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Rain, Rain that is all that comes my way.

There were huge storms here last night it shook the house. It felt like how I was feeling just rain and more rain with no break in between. I don't know where your life is today no one leaves notes on here and few have added their names as followers. I know that your days probably feel like mine some of the time. I have walked this road for a long time. Hoping for things people thought was dumb seeing every dream shattered and still having to try to go on.
I have seen wonderful people face trials and others say we will pray the reality is we don't want your prayers we want some lifting of these burdens and how many people who say they are praying really are not. Such idol words.
So where ever you are. Walk my path with me today. Cheer me up and lets laugh along the way.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

A cry for a break in the storm.

Well many just say pray and others keep saying we feel that there is going to be a break in your storm. I trudge along. I see my daughters grasping for mum to provide a light in these storm driven past years. I often look up the places I lived as a child longing to return to Cromer and Sheringham such wonderful memories those places have for me. Often I wished I could just pick up the girls and take them there and some how make a living, all joy be known just be a mum.
I think when the storms have ragged so long it is almost like a heavy coat around you, you just so want to feel some relief.
My oh my what a road I have travelled. I long for the days that I can fly up to Maine or to London and go and walk on Cromer beach and just sit and be still knowing that life has turned and the heaviness has been lifted.
It is so easy to point fingers at those who are depressed yet I often see that sometimes the weight is just so heavy.
All I know where ever you are weather in America or England or where ever and you read my blog know you are not alone. I pray that all those reading my blog will know that someone else cares.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

A brother.

I have one brother he is 5 years old than me. I have fond memories of how my brother stood up for me at Priory School Stamford when children would laugh at me when my eyes were cross eyed. I have fond memories of when I went on cross country runs with him and my dad. Of my brother waiting for me as my dad ran off on his run in the woods. How we raced on bikes around the country streets where we lived and how in him I saw such a wonderful person who did not agree to seeing his sister being laughed at who was an amazing artist drawing cartons. The sad thing is today he has forgotten all those wonderful qualities. I think God gives us wonderful qualities not just to use as a child but to allow us and others to grow when we become adults of course that is always questionable at who actually grows up.
Today my brother may not see or use those qualities and indeed God has bought many a wonderful Godly brother my way.
I look back at my own life and see qualities that I had abandon and see that those qualities were God given and could be used to help others.
I ask you to think and remember the wonderful things that when you were young made you smile made you happy and ask God how you can use those.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Moving on is not so easy.

I was given an assignment to read chapter 6 in a book called Truefaced. I have read some of it and the papers given to me. As I sit here it is apparent forgiving is a very hard road. No one knows our pain and simply saying we are praying for you really when pain is so deep seams like words in the wind. At the end of the day it is true we have to face the loss the hurt the feelings, emotions and on going challenges that we have had to face through situations or what another person has done to us. In that we have to face our own part to. It is interesting as I was reading I started to feel some others pain. Perhaps that is healing perhaps that is letting go.
I sit in a house not knowing if I will be able to stay here, not knowing where my children will go to school, not knowing when I will see my Mum if I will ever get out of this Pitt, or when a full time job will come. I also see that I have missed not having a dad around missed not just been a mum in all this mess. Perhaps it was never how I wanted it to be with my Dad. But I do know that God is showing me He is my dad. As I sit here I also see that to forgive truly is healing for me and allowing God to move me on. It allows my children to heal and perhaps others to see my passion of who I truly am. Perhaps we all wear a mask when we do not forgive.
Simply praying for someone is just a small part of the help we all need when we go through tough times. It is the labor of love to see someone through with love, words and actions that does not just bring help to the person going through that experience but to the one who is bearing that cross along side of them it brings them to face their issues and find healing to.
Where ever you are and who ever you are. You can find you. You just have to truly let go and truly forgive. It is in those hours I believe that you will be lifted higher than you ever know and you will find you.
Trust me I am walking this road with you holding up your cross and knowing that we together with the help of God we are going to make it.
Truly forgiven and truly set free to forgive others and set them free and in that I believe God will do amazing things.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.