Lady Of Grace

...A Work In Progress...

When Jesus spoke again to the people he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." JOHN 8:12

FOR IT IS BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED, THROUGH FAITH - AND THIS NOT FROM YOURSELVES, IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD - NOT BY WORKS, SO THAT NO ONE CAN BOAST. FOR WE ARE GOD'S WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS TO DO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD PREPARED IN ADVANCE FOR US TO DO." EPHESIANS 2:8-10

Monday, June 06, 2005

Daily Devotional...

Today I was devoted to getting out of bed... and making it through work... and getting past the rest of the afternoon and evening without complications. I did not do well at work. Have you ever heard the saying... "Misery loves company"? Well... there are times at work when everyone is grouchy. I can go into work in a very good mood... thinking positive... singing my favorite song in my head... and having happy thoughts in my heart. Then... IT HAPPENS! Someone at work comes in wearing a bad mood all over 'em! It seeps out of their every pore... leaking out onto the floor... and getting tracked all over the place by everyone they encounter. I did not fend off the horrid attitudes today. I kinda got sucked right into them... and it discouraged my thoughts of my job... which... by the way... I LOVE! I really do like what I do. But......... I was sucked by osmosis through the sludge of someone else's misery. I grumbled... I mumbled... I was miserable... and I hated it! How can I make a difference in someone else's life... if my own self control is so easily demolished? Like a far off distant voice of a memory I hear..."Tomorrow is another day".... so hopefully....... I will stand firm on my achey feet and refuse to succumb to everyone else's tragic loss of pride in who they are at work! I will be devoted tomorrow to being the happy, silly person I know I can be... I will keep my mouth from spewing discouraging comments and keep my mind away from the thoughts of sludge and drudgery that others will try to brainwash me with!! I will fight through to the end of my shift...((hopefully with a true smile... not a fakey cheesy one))! I will try my hardest to let my light shine like a beacon of a lighthouse breaking through the fog of grumbling and despair! Onward! Bring it on! Bring those screaming kids (the kinds you can hear all the way across the store) for an "If you be quiet I will give you a cookie!" And I will smile as they get the free cookie and continue to scream as you are walking out the door! ((All the while my thoughts will be "I'm glad they are going home with YOU!"))....... Ahhhh.... Shop at Wal*Mart and support my 401K!

posted by ~Suzii~ at 9:02 PM

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I live each day the best I can. I thank God for every tiny little thing that I have. I would like to write the book that is in my heart to write... or should I say... finish it. God sees us at the core of who we are... and He still loves us anyway. He is the reason and purpose I exist in this world... and He has entrusted me with a family to care for... and with a heart to share with others how much He loves everyone. (This is a note to self... "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. Malachi 3:10")

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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. ~1 Corinthians 13~  

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