I haven't visited around too much so when I'm feeling better I'll try my best to catch up!
My deepest thanks to those of you who've visited me over the past couple of days for the
Where Blogger's Create Party
and left such lovely messages. You are the best and your words of praise helped me feel better.
My deepest thanks to those of you who've visited me over the past couple of days for the
Where Blogger's Create Party
and left such lovely messages. You are the best and your words of praise helped me feel better.
This week I spent some quiet time reflecting upon my life and all the blessings that have come my way. Although my walk with God has been far from a perfect one, I know in my heart He has been with me all the way...walking beside me and even carrying me when the burdens in my life were too heavy for me to bear.
I understand fully His goal is not to make me happy.
It's to make me His.
His goal is not to give me what I want,
but to become all I will ever need.
I understand fully His goal is not to make me happy.
It's to make me His.
His goal is not to give me what I want,
but to become all I will ever need.
When I was a little girl my sister, Faith (I call her by her childhood name of Linda), use to sing a song from our church hymnal that so beautifully fit her sensitive heart. For some reason the sound of her sweet, young, lilting soprano voice keeps coming to my mind... I can still hear her singing "I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go",
a favorite hymn of our father...
a favorite hymn of our father...
"It may not be on the mountain’s height,
or over the stormy sea;
It may not be at the battle’s front,
It may not be at the battle’s front,
my Lord will have need of me;
But if by a still, small voice He calls
But if by a still, small voice He calls
to paths I do not know,
I’ll answer, dear Lord, with my hand in Thine,
I’ll go where You want me to go.
I’ll answer, dear Lord, with my hand in Thine,
I’ll go where You want me to go.
I’ll go where You want me to go, dear Lord,
Over mountain, or plain, or sea;
I’ll say what You want me to say, dear Lord,
I’ll be what You want me to be..."
Over mountain, or plain, or sea;
I’ll say what You want me to say, dear Lord,
I’ll be what You want me to be..."
Mary Houghton Brown (b. 1856)
Charles Edward Prior (b.1927)
Charles Edward Prior (b.1927)
Aside from my passions for things like
old laces, buttons and ribbons,
hand painted roses and soft cotton fabrics or
vintage and antique finds and the like,
what I love most and
want to be most,
is ALL God wants me to be.
It is my deepest desire to love Him MORE than anything else in my life.
Thank you again for visiting. You continue to bless me.
Love,
