It never ceases to surprise me how bitter people are so full of hate that they cannot stand to see anyone else have anything good or joyful in their lives. I don’t understand. If you are miserable and someone else is not, would you not rather find out what makes them happy rather than attempt to make them miserable as yourself?
It has been common knowledge for a long time that this blog is viewed by a large number of my husband’s enemies. I try not to allow this to effect what I write for I do not write for them, I write for myself.
When I send out an update to my blog to share these things with people, I normally send instructions on how to comment. Mainly because my friends and family need the added guidance. I find the enemies need no assistance, their hatred leads the way to bitter and hateful things. How bitter of a person do you have to be to try to rain on someone’s birthday joy? I have a list of people I believe would do such hateful things. And for some reason I find myself smiling. (Would all my prayer warrior friends please join me in praying for these people? We can see how they so desperately need it!)
The joy that I experience in life I try to pass on to others. It is a vunerablity I choose to take for the pleasure and growth of others. There are many rewards with this. Many comment back to me in emails that go unseen expressing how this has effected others. And I am pleased. God has been very, very good to me and I want to pass that on. I take no credit on how my life has turned. There is the obvious – you must give control over to God to allow Him to move and yet I have been recipient to so many blessings for doing so.
Who would have thought? Life is such an adventure! It is painful. It is challenging. It is fun! How beautiful of a world that is created for our enjoyment! How much fun and excitement there is for our chosen pleasure!
Right outside our kitchen window we have a wooden T with three birdfeeders, a finch sock, hummingbird feeder and a place to hold a corn cob. (it’s busy to say the least) The entired family gets great joy from watching the squirrels get up there and strip the corn from the cob, twist their little bodies around to pull seeds from the tiny air holes in the bird feeders and jump in alarm from the feeder to the nearby trees at the slightest sight of Love.
There are purple martins with such a beautiful song. Tiny sparrows come in small groups. Yesterday there were two sets of mourning doves. A gorgeous red headed wood pecker struts his stuff and my favorite, the yellow finches. They are so beautiful in their bright yellow feathers. Three at a time will hang from the finch sack. How gorgeous!
Recently we have found a family of chipmunks living nearby the feeder. The little guy Bubs has named “Chip” (original) comes bouncing down the sidewalk, pauses in the middle (like no one can see him), and scurries over to pick up the corn seed the squirrels have left behind. Then he scurries back down the sidewalk and bounces through the grass till he pops right back down his hole.
How adorable! I came around the corner the other day and he froze right there in front of me. Tail standing straight up in the air. I couldn’t
I have found that the house surrounded in hostas. I love hostas. The place is covered in them. Bearded iris’. The bulbs the girls and I planted are beginning to sprout. Purple flowers dot all around shaded areas. All these flowers I swear were planted in years before just for me. Because God knew how much I would appreciate and enjoy them.
DoogBoog would say the same thing about the ball court. God knew how much she would enjoy such a thing so He had someone in years previous pour the concrete just for her. The driveway for B-Bug and Bubs. The trampoline for Dink and the hottub for all of us.
This is just home. Pull back and think of all the things that have been put into place surrounding? What about in your own life? Be you a bitter person, you won’t find too much that you call blessings. That’s truly a sad way to be.
Bitterness will eat you from the inside out. It robs your life of all joy. Your soul from all peace. It will remove friends from your life. Lead you down a destructive path and grow hatred in your heart. Bitter people show what they hold on the inside by the lines on their face, the acid that drips from their tongue and the life-killing unhappiness that follows them around like a bad stench.
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues pratice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” Romans 3:14
“Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every from of malice.” Ephesians 4:31
One the flip side, Joy does just the opposite.
“A joyful heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries the bones.” Proverb 17:22
“A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” Provers 14:30
“Be joyful always; pray continually;” 1 Thessalonians 5:16 & 17
Be joyful in hope; patient in affliction; and faithful in prayer.” Romans 12:12
Joy is so much different than happiness. Happiness is fleeting. It’s dependent on surrounding circumstances. Joy has it’s own lifeline. It is fed by something with much greater sustenance. It is not temporary. You can be joyful in a dreadful circumstance. True joy does not leave. It stays and gives life to the body! How marvelous!
As I mentioned. I have ideas as to who would write such a thing. You have now been given your attention. My suggestion, as is to my friends a family, hence how I knew who wrote it: If you are going to comment, leave an idea as to who sent it. Basically, if you think you are big enough stuff to write something like this, be big enough to actually sign it. Something I have rarely had a problem doing. As we say in my house: Step up buttercup.
“The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.” Proverbs 14:9
3 comments:
you are upset that someone made a comment about your blog. you are selling yourself out by putting your blog to the public. and with that people have the right to freedom of speech. you are asking for comments at the end of your blog? you should not be upset. if you want comments from your family and friends blog to your computer and not put it nationwide.
i have heard you say , you say what you think and believe why can't you take people do the same to you. your world is not one sided. you think when someone says something bad or critizes you it the devil in that person/ well sweetheart. thats life get over it. i would not put pictures of my children on the internet for every tom dick and harry to look at. wake up. if you cant take the heat get out of the kitchen
Dawn dont worry about the enemies of your husband they will get what they have coming to them very soon!! Especially the arizona and alabama connection
Go Girl,
USE THE SCRIPTURES AND LET GOD BE YOUR GUIDE.
Love ya, Aunt Mary
P.S. Sorry to see that those that oppose your works can't show themselves.
God had a plan and purpose for ALL of his creation that means EVERYONE.
The blessing of the Lord makes me rich and He adds no sorrow is with it. Proverbs 10:22
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