Waiting, Forgiving and moving on.

Waiting on an answer. Sometimes it feels like I am on auto pilot. In May we left WCA I stood saying I felt that it was not good bye. I will have to say I still feel that our days at WCA are not numbered some I am sure feel I am just a pushy parent who should just face reality. Most of the time that I have left a place I knew I would not be back. As I have watched many people go through trials it is obvious to me that those who hold on are the one's which seam to have found a peace. I think it is so easy to tell another pray or do such and such unless they have shared with you a road they have been on. I think anything involving children is so tough.
I was given a book yesterday called TrueFaced. I wonder how many of us show our true faces. I think it is true we have to get to the bottom of who we will not forgive to allow God to hear our prayers. We have to search our own hearts. I think many people mean well but I think often they play God and truly sink a boat of someone who is already struggling.
I think you should hold on for miracles hold onto your dreams. My brothers wife did not live but I do see through her death she taught me to really understand and have a heart for people in so many ways and I am thankful for her gift to me.
Today let go of all those people who hurt you and see what God will do. I know I am going to do that.
Here's to a brighter day.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Help or not help?

Many people in the walk of life have offered help but as I was listening to a sermon yesterday. I wondered how much of that help was just coming from them. A friend once said people give tons of advice Lisa you be the person who works out what is right you have the ability to do this.
As the roads have twisted and turned in my life it is true that the moments I stopped and listened to God I have found peace. It is the moments that I sought a million answers that I have been most nervous.
It is like Paul on the boat his trust was in God and God alone. I cannot say that I am very like that. I do know that the biggest peace is found in finding a few good friends and then place the rest into Gods hands.
Many people have written to me with advice but few have walked my road and few want to spoil their pretty worlds with issues they know nothing about.
My mother wrote a poem how friends will all come back once your worries have gone away. This I believe is true.
My advice be very wise who your friends are many mean well but sometimes their advice is sharper than a two edged sword and kills to the bone and not in a good way.
Learn to listen and learn to be still I am not good at this. But at least I am trying.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Just getting by.

How many of us just do the bare minimum to get by. Many of us do this. Weather at work or even doing a job for someone else. The truth is we leave out important steeps that need to be done to get a job done well.
I use to be like this when I worked in a factory but then I changed my attitude and decided to give it my best. At my part time job I like to make people smile and go the extra mile.
I think many Christians are like this they do just what is needed to portray that they are a Christian but inside their lives are an utter mess.
That does not mean we do not struggle it is simply changing gears and have a new perspective that we will do all we can.
I am hugely accountable to some friends that has helped me immensely.
I encourage you to go beyond just getting by you will find it very rewarding.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

A Pebble of Hope

A pebble of Hope
Tossed into a Sea of Faith
Will send ripples of Hope
farther and deeper
than we can know
Someone wrote this recently. I will have to say in life we hold to hope that God will lead us through and by His faith we will make it.
The poem is somewhat true for so many trials in life.
However I would toss your hope not into a sea of Faith but into God. I am not very good at this at times I am and others pretty useless.
I know we all face many trials but trust in the fact that it does take a small amount of faith to see great things happen.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Being a witness at all times.

I will have to be honest I have not been a witness to many times in my life. Some might even say I have complained more than be thankful. I like to think a bunch of complaining with a dash of thankfulness. However that is not a very good witness.
At my present job I like to talk to people, it is one thing I have found that I am good at. I ask people what they do for a living. I have been blessed when people share with me that they are out of work to direct them to a Jobseekers at Colonial Baptist in Cary it is the best one in this area a person just has to go one time on Monday to receive all the updates about jobs. This lady over heard me telling this chap and told him the times .When he left she looked at me with a shocked face that was very nice of you to tell him. I said I tell everyone who I know has not got a job to go there it is our place as Christians to help others and then added well that is my belief.
I try to encourage the older people on senior citizen day by calling it junior day when I hear people have gone through a divorce or are I hold their hands and say I am so sorry. When I see someone with a cancer shirt on I tell them about my story that I wrote and Rita and how brave they are.
Perhaps in these moments even putting shopping bags in a place that makes it easier for the elderly and young to pick up maybe in that others see Christ.
I may say i have grumbled with a dash of thankfulness but I am thankful that in all this God uses me to reach others by telling them about Jobseekers by adding a smile to a child's face or holding an elderly persons hand.
You might not think you make a difference but you do.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Jesus Loves me Yes I know

Jesus loves me Yes I know is my most favorite song. There are few others that I hold dear to my heart young at heart, On England's green and pleasant lands and Forever young. Jesus loves is a song that was sung to me when I cried to go home when I first went to school at Lonsdale in Norwich. I don't believe the school exists any more. The Kindergarten teacher sat me in her lap and played on the piano that song with the students singing. I will never forget her kindness and she will never know the impact that she had on me for the rest of my life.
It is that way with being a Christian many of us will never know who we will reach by our testimony or who we will touch.
So today just take a moment to remember that Jesus Loves you this I know. That He See's all and has good in store. Just remember you will never know who you are impacting like that teacher she will never know how much she has meant to me over the years. Just remember to you are precious to Christ. It is not a lie. Jesus Loves you this I know.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Thankful heart.

I was convicted today as I sat and was very discouraged I even emailed some friends about it all. A friend said go and read some thankful scriptures I decided not to do that but started saying the things I was thankful for and saying sorry for the one's I had complained about.
I saw today that the gulf has finally opened up to allow fishing again. What a blessing I thought as I saw this photo of this man walking across this bridge with his fishing rod. Many people who had loved that sport can now find their joy again.
I got to read a wonderful note today. I got to see a friend, I got to see it rain. I got to go for a walk and I got to think of things I had rather than things I did not.
No trial, road is easy but I know for sure with a few good friends and a lot of God it is the only way to make it through.
I am reminded as I type this of my mum who lived in the world war 2 of her story of parties in the streets when the war ended. The war may of seamed like eternity but there was rejoicing at the end.
Take a moment to be thankful even if you just think of one thing and say it out loud it will make you feel good.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.