Thoughts..

God works in mysterious ways.

Some days I just feel like packing it all in and trying something different. Other days, I love my life and I love what I do, still other days I have a hard time trying to stay focused because I'm tired, or stressed.
To be honest, my life right now is crazy. I sometimes feel as if I have no extra down time to do anything to just...relax. And then I think, "well maybe that's being selfish." Because I mean, our lives aren't even our own to begin with, so what right do we have to live them around our own plans and preferences right? I don't know..it's something I really struggle with. How much time are we allowed to take for ourselves to just quiet down from our crazy, hectic schedules and use that time to spend more in His Word, or even just to enjoy the gifts of creation that He's created for us?

I'm really trying to figure out where that fine line is.

And then there's the moments in our lives, those days where everything seems to be going just the way we think it should go. We're happy, and there's really nothing that we feel should be different about it. And then it changes. Everything. You feel as if everything's turned upside down and you don't know what to believe anymore...time passes and then something changes. Again. Except this time, it's amazing. What you thought before would never happen, it does!...in the most incredible and miraculous way!

Those are the times, the days when you just stop. You can't help but lift your voice to Him. When everything seemed all wrong, when you couldn't seem to figure out why..it all makes sense. Sometimes I don't even have words for it. I don't know how to thank Him how He ought to be thanked. But I do with all of my heart, because I love Him, and I love Him for all the mysterious ways He works in my life. I love Him for lifting me up in His hands when I most feel like falling. When He speaks through His Word during the times I least feel like trusting.

I guess it's like when you're closed in all around you..the only place to turn, the only place to look , is up. Where He's there. He's never left, and He never will! ..Honestly, what could be more comforting than to have Christ, the Lord, our King surround you with His loving arms, and ever-present Spirit?

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-15

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which has been planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew, a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate, a time to war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set to the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh form the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put into it, nor anything taken from it: and God doeth it it, that men should fear before Him. That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past."