This year

Has kinda been rough and rocky so far. Nothing the Big Guy upstairs and I can't handle, it's just that I was hoping for a little bit of a break. But I guess He has other plans for me. I know that it's a period of growth and like all growing pains, well, they're painful.

But I have faith that God is preparing me for something else, something that is beyond my thoughts and desires for today. My immediate wish is for the daily drama to be on the back burner. I am a peace loving individual. I like things to be calm and contention free. Somehow I seem to be a drama magnet, what I mean by that is the drama queens are drawn to me, probably because I am more stable.

Regardless, I guess it is yet another way for God to keep my focus on Him. That I would be driven to seek solace and grace from and through Him. And wow does it ever work! If I keep my focus on Him it helps, because it's His strength that helps me get through the drama. His wisdom that helps me see through the junk of the situation to the crux of the matter. His love that sooths my shattered nerves from the endless pushing and pulling. Sometimes I know how it feels to be made into taffy. But what a lovely treat is created in the process!

So I wake up, pull up my socks and struggle through the day to jump the impossible hurtles and dodge the inevitable issues that arise knowing God is for me, so who can be against me?