Comments on: I Can Do All Things

By: Lucinda J

Lucinda J — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:22:12 +0000

In reply to marianbeaman. That's beautiful. What sustaining words to read over and over again. It's the old familiar verses I always turn to when I need direction for living.

By: marianbeaman

marianbeaman — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 23:01:11 +0000

Verses like this give me joy – and focus. Your featured verse is a favorite as is another perched in a blue frame above my kitchen sink: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jer. 29:11

By: lucindaj

lucindaj — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:37:08 +0000

In reply to tropicslvr92.

Thank you. I really appreciate that thought. I always have a feeling, when I can’t reach around to everyone and everything that I would like to, that I am doing something wrong. But maybe the real problem is, not that I am doing something wrong, but that my focus is wrong. When I ask “What does GOD want from me today?” all of a sudden my list looks different. Or not different so much as my view of it is different–I become aware of the essence of life itself, and of God in me, and the list doesn’t seem so important anymore. I will remember this in the weeks to come.

By: tropicslvr92

tropicslvr92 — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:45:56 +0000

Best wishes in all you have to do! I definitely know the feeling of being overwhelmed with so much to do that you feel like just retreating and doing nothing. In the book “Lies Women Believe” the author says one of the lies Satan wants us to believe is “I don’t have time to do everything I’m supposed to do.” The truth is “There is time in every day to do everything that God wants me to do.” This has been an encouragement to me to not focus on all the things to be done, but focus on God and allow him to be judge of what I have time to do. Best wishes as you look to Christ for strength each day!

By: Lucinda J

Lucinda J — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:31:17 +0000

In reply to Shilah Hartman. Yes!

By: Shilah Hartman

Shilah Hartman — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:25:28 +0000

Luci, I am with you on the need to rely on God for our strength…I am thinking of you as I am preparing for another year of teaching as well…I fear the mundane of the year…I can give that to God too, Yes?

By: Lucinda J

Lucinda J — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 22:17:14 +0000

In reply to Ruth Anna.

:) The dishes are done…Mom and I and MacKenzie did them together. And I did some writing…school prep, here I come! Thank you for commenting, and blessings to you too.

By: Ruth Anna

Ruth Anna — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 22:08:21 +0000

Can you let the dishes for now???? =) Smirk! I know how it is! =) Our school began on Friday, so we are in the throes of getting into our routines, etc. It can be a whirlwind sometimes! =) Blessings as you rely on HIM!

By: Lucinda J

Lucinda J — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:06:14 +0000

In reply to Stephanie J. Leinbach. Thank you! That is just exactly what I need. I wish the same to you.

By: Lucinda J

Lucinda J — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:04:58 +0000

In reply to Teckla. Teckla, that's a good thought and one that never occurred to me before. Thank you for sharing! I ALMOST typed "who" before I remembered, No, it's "which". Glad I got it right.