Bloom where you are planted

I am moving...Not to my dream house, and not back home where I want to be. I am moving to a house I don't even like really.But it works So, here I go.
And my life is in a place I am not really happy with.Nothing seems right.Everything is a little off somehow.

 There is a lot of work ahead.
I am not sure why God has me here. The past two years are a bit of a blur.For sure he has been carrying me.
Because I have been to weak to carry myself.
I can't really explain it ...but I feel as if He is planting me in this place to grow.
I saw this poem and it rang so true.


Master Gardener, help me be

Content with where You’ve planted me;
You carefully place each seed you sow,
And choose the soil to make it grow,
A shady nook or sunlit plot,
A wooded glen or garden spot;
And when you send the storm and shower,
You give me strength and inner power;
All things come that You might be
Glorified, my God, in me;
And so I’ll lift my flowers high,
To cheer and bless each passerby;
And may they see within my face
The beauty of Your love and grace;
So help me, Lord, to ever be
Blooming where You planted me.

—Wm. Claire Greiner

                                                Are you blooming where He has planted you???

If this inspires you ...here is some more reading and materials.
A printout
A sermon/lesson
A thought
Saying it better than I can

 

Hello....

Welcome Shelby!!
A new follower.Yea!!!
I have been neglecting this blog for a while. I am sorry for that! Life got in the way for a while.
But I am back. I am only going to be posting on Tuesdays and Thursdays from here forward.
My hope is that these posts give your spirit a lift during the long weeks we all have.
God Bless you all!!!!

Changes

When this lil'blog started we had a goal of finding a years worth of inspiring scriptue. 365 verses. Well,
Ta Done.  It took about 90 days.  I have enjoyed doing this so much.  So, I will carry on. I hope you all are getting something out of this lil'blog also. I am going to take a couple days off and restructure a bit. I 'll be back with more verses and thoughts soon.
Thank you for reading!!!!!!!
Keithena

Care Giver................

 As I was reading these verses today, It got me thinking. In my life I have almost always been the care giver. Even as a child I had to care for myself. My Mother was busy and emotionally removed. My Husband has never been good at that roll, he cares for me but is not a care giver.  And of course,  I am the care giver of my children. 
The only person who has ever filled the care giving role in my life has been my friend Tracy. She started out as my employee,  but before I new it she was so much more. She cared for my home, my kids, and me. To this day, although she is not in my employ, she is my friend and gives care for me. She prays for me, she goes above and beyond to make sure my heart is right.
Caring for some one in the care giving roll is to take action, to give, to care. It is such an important roll. When we are caring for someone we are doing God's work. When we feel a strong urge to help and to give care for another person, I believe that is straight from the Lord. It is spirit led.
I am only posting two verses today.  I love these verses. Because it tell me HE cares. I know that as I care for people and when people care for me.
Give your "care giver " a hug today. And remember all Love comes from above.




Nahum 1:7
The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him

1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Through the Blood of Christ.............

These verses are a reminder that through the Blood of Christ we serve a Living God .

 Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

Hebrews 9:14
How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

1 Peter 1:2
who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

1 John 5:6
This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

Father,May your Favor find me........

Job 33:26
He prays to God and finds favor with him, he sees God's face and shouts for joy; he is restored by God to his righteous state.

Psalm 5:12
For surely, O LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.

Luke 2:14
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."

Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do.

Still Struggling with Anxious thoughts?

In all of the years of being saved. The biggest thing I have always struggled with is my mind. My thought wonder..rarely to a good place. I struggle and struggle to "right my mind". I know how important it is to stay in faith. But of my mind wonders. I think that's why this blog is so important to me. It gives me a chance to right my mind in the word. Like doing exercise for my mind muscle. 
Here are some verse to "work out" to today.

Psalm 13:2
How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?

Psalm 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

1 Corinthians 2:11
For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Ephesians 4:22
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
Ephesians 4:23
to be made new in the attitude of your minds;