I was going to post about our 2 new cats but I received so many encouraging replies on Facebook to yesterday's post. I'm not sure if I actually admited it but I have been feeling pretty hopeless this year. Last night I was reminded there are so many people who have had much harder roads to travel than me. I've never lingered over a a child in the hospital and all my children have been healthy. There are also many more diseases worse than mine that people have dealt with it are dealing with. I've never had to hear the words cancer from a doctor and that word strikes fear in anyone who's ever heard it let alone gone through it. A few disease I can think they're worse are ALS, Alzheimer's or dementia. I know no one meant this but last night I felt like a bit of a whiner. Bible tells me that what I have is light affliction but for a moment. In James tells us our life is but a vapor.
This morning, as I do most mornings, I listen to a sermon from our church on my PC. Today I listen to a sermon on Romans 8. It talked about our assurance knowing the Lord. I kept thinking of that hymn "Blessed assurance Jesus is mine oh what a foretaste of glory divine". I felt lifted up by so many encouraging messages I got in this song just topped it off. In Psalm 23 one line I always remember is that "he restores my soul" I can't tell you how many times in the last 35 years that I was restored in my soul just as he promised.
Well I have too many Facebook post to the dog's all them and so I hope when you read this you to have my thanks. God bless all of you!
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