Happy Dance

My God, I know that
I can never escape from your spirit! I would never want to, I continually yearn and look to being closer to Your spirit.

My God,
I can never get away from your presence! I yearn for the day when I will be continually in Your presence, I know that each day I am closer to You.... one day I will see you face to face.

If I go up to heaven, you are there; I look for that day my Lord to be in Heaven where You are
if I go down to the place of the dead, you are there. You my God are everywhere.
If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans, No matter where I go or where I am there You are there my Lord.

Even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me. Your strength Lord is all I need and Your peace dwells within me.

I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night-- but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
Darkness and light are both alike to you.

So even if I were to try, You would see and know all, of where I am, and what I do.
My God I am here before You and I am willing for You to find me and to see me and to change me.

I Love You Lord


Les

Teach me, my Lord, to be sweet and gentle in all the events of life,
in disappointments, in the thoughtlessness of those I trusted,
in the unfaithfulness of those on whom I relied.

Let me put myself aside, to think of the happiness of others, to hide my little pains and heartaches,
so that I may be the only one to suffer from them.

Teach me to profit by the suffering that comes across my path. Let me so use it that it may make me patient, not irritable. That it may make me broad in my forgiveness, not narrow, haughty and overbearing.

May no one be less good for having come within my influence. No one less pure, less true, less kind, less noble for having been a fellow traveler in our journey toward Eternal Life.

As I go my rounds from one distraction to another, let me whisper from time to time, a word of love to Thee. May my life be lived in the supernatural, full of power for good, and strong in its purpose of sanctity.

AMEN!

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Robert Frost (1874–1963).

I asked for health,
that I might do greater things,
I was given infirmity,
that I might do better things ...

I asked for riches,
that I might be happy,
I was given poverty,
that I might have the praise of men,
I was given weakness,
that I might feel the need of God ...

I asked for all things,
that I might enjoy life,
I was given life,
that I might enjoy all things ...

I got nothing that I asked for -
but everything I hoped for,
almost despite myself,
my unspoken prayers were answered.

I am among all men,
most richly blessed.

Author unknown.

I have been struggling with all sorts of things within my life lately and I have been wondering about the whys, hows of it and thinking about enduring..

Anyway this is what I have been thinking... I read something and started wondering if I was indeed the moth, and if this moths story could actually be my own life and how God is working my life to His purpose? I dont know, but it sure felt like it to me that I could be this moth..

James 1:4
“When your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.”

One day a man found the cocoon of an emperor moth and took it home so that he could observe it coming out. Gradually a small opening appeared, and he watched as the moth struggled to force its body through. This went on for hours. Then suddenly it stopped making any progress; it seemed to have got as far as it could go.

Thinking it would help, the man took scissors and made the opening wider, and the moth emerged easily. But when it did, he noticed that it had a swollen body, shriveled wings, and could not fly.

In that moment he suddenly understood that it was the struggle that caused the moth’s body to grow and its wings to develop. Freedom and flight could come only after struggle! That is how it works.

So I asked myself, is this why I am struggling today? Is this why I am wondering, why am I going through this?

Maybe I need to let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work in me, so that I may be fully developed [James 1:4]

God is more interested in my character than He is in my comfort, Overcoming obstacles is what will develop in me the faith I need to fulfil my God - given purpose in this life.

The truth is that it can’t and won’t happen any other way.

In His Love

Les

Ingredients;

125 grams of butter
½ cup of sugar
1 tablespoon of golden syrup
1 tablespoon of milk
1 ½ cup of standard plain flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda

Instructions (makes about 22 biscuits);

Combine the butter, sugar, golden syrup and milk in a saucepan, and then while stirring constantly, heat until the butter is melted and the mixture is nearly boiling. Remove the saucepan from the element and allow the mixture to cool to lukewarm.

Sift the flour and the baking soda together, then add to the cooled mixture. Make sure that you stir the combined ingredients well.

Roll full tablespoons of the mixture into balls and place on an ungreased oven tray, then flatten the balls with a floured fork.

Bake the biscuits at 180°C for 15 to 20 minutes or until they are golden brown.