Bleeding Hearts

What makes life hard? Is it the inconveniences? Is it the inhumanity to man? All it amounts to is man's selfishness to man. And forgetting there is a God. And forgetting the love that God maintains and sustains for each of us, and that He calls us His children. So glad He is God. What makes life hard is the pity parties because of man's selfishness, man's selfishness resulting in violence toward man and death and carrying out satan's wishes rather than walking in God's will. Father God loves all of us. But does that love mean that life will be easy if you follow God? No, we are not given any promises, we are not promised roses, not promised candy, and not promised an easy road. All we are promised is if we continue to walk in the light of God we will get heaven and all the promises of no more hard life, no more tears. Praise God for His love and life.

God is good!!

I lost a cat last week. All of a sudden. No warning. He had a heart attack. I was shocked.And think I still am to some extent. I had him for 15 years and cannot imagine a day without him. But on the flip side, I prayed for a quick death. My prayer was that if God was ready for Henry, that Henry not suffer but go quickly. And God answered my prayer. After clearing my head when he passed I thought about that and said God will always answer His children's prayer. It was not what I expected and certainly not what I wanted. But the alternative was for Henry to revive, me run back and forth with him to the emergency clinic probably going through procedures and living another period of time in pain (possibly). And then being euthanized. That would have broken my heart worse. As bad as this was that would have been worse. God is faithful. He is good and He loves His children. Thank You God for Your many blessings.

AGING GRACEFULLY

I have 2 cats, both elderly, but both staying young in Spirit whether it is from what they eat or how they are taken care of. My mom is 92. Physically she watches what she eats and takes care of herself which explains her age. But her spirit is drained, tired, without hope for a pain-free life. Some of which is an oxymoron, because life is not without pains, it's really not. Pain was given to us to know we are alive. And our pain doesn't end until we are in heaven.  On the other hand, a lot of anguish is not what life is all about. That's when abuse of pain, excessive pain when we encounter horrific suffering. We are not promised a rose garden on this earth, and that includes falling among the thorns. And as we age, those thorns really come on strong. The Lord is strong though and His promises are true. We are promised no pain, no tears, no darkness.

When life is fun

I frequently watch my cat Henry play with his circular scratching post circumscribed by a ball inside of an open tube. He chases and chases that ball trying to figure out how to remove it from the tube, which of course he can't. And I laugh because he will twist and turn and run around that tube batting at the ball and flip over and finally stop and stare at it for a little bit before batting it again. How much like that are human when confronted with situations they cannot get out of? We chase those results or events and chase and chase and turn and flip around finally stopping until we chase those events again. When living peacefully and understanding there are things we are not going to be able to understand/do/avoid so the key is to look to God and ask for His wisdom. And His presence will give us strength if we promise to be His.