Who you are and what you do in this life are important! Life has taught me that we all live with a special call and a special purpose for our lives.  Never feel like your gift to this world is not important.  You are a contributor and without your special part, there would be a vacancy in God’s plan!  I  think the biggest challenge of life, is to accept who we are, and walk in that gift God has placed within us.  So many times, we focus on the things we don’t have, and disappointment  gets a hold on you and if you are not secure in who you are, it will knock you off of your feet.  We were not meant to crumble under the challenges of life, but we were meant to use those challenges as stepping stones to a greater victory!

Life is not always kind. Things don’t always go the way we think they will go.  We are challenged by so many things!  I choose to believe, that when God said he would never leave us or forsake us he really meant it!  He is always with us.  There is not a weapon formed against us that will prosper!   How could that be?  Remember, if you are walking with God and he is directing your path, he knows where he is allowing you to go and he knows what is ahead.  When I decided to start trusting him, and let him be in the driver’s seat, I found great peace in knowing he would get me to the right destination, even though I might not understand every challenge along the way.

It was several years ago.  I was sitting in my church and there was a lady there who I had never met.  I noticed as she sang, she had a beautiful voice.  Later when she did a special musical number for the congregation I knew she could have easily recorded, with her country voice.   Several months went by, and I really had never gotten to know her.  I did know her name and heard one day that she was very seriously ill with breast cancer.  God literally put her on my heart.  I had heard she was single and alone and I truly felt she needed a friend.  I asked and found out what hospital she was in, and picked up a little doll that I actually thought looked like her.  I headed to the hospital to see if I could meet her.  When I got there, she was in surgery and I didn’t get to see her.  I left the doll with the nurse and later, went back again.  That was the beginning of a two year mission, God had me on.  Almost daily, I visited and we shares so much during those two years about God and his love.  I found out how just a year before her diagnoses, her Mom had died of Breast cancer and she was still grieving over that.  I was there with her through many visits from friends and was able to share God’s love many times to many who came and went.  Today as I type, I am praying for one of those special friends was just diagnosed with cancer and now facing some of the same challenges my friend Rhonda faced.  Rhonda had great faith and we had so many times we were up and so many times we were down.  I remember  a time, toward the end of the two years.  It was evening and I knew when I left, she was not going to make it through the night.  She had another friend who helped me and I left and drove home with the weight of the world on my shoulders.    As I prayed for her, I saw in my minds eyes two really large feet and I was so small beside them.  I knew I was standing at the feet of Jesus.  I saw myself holding Rhonda and all the cares she faced and realized, they didn’t belong in my arms, but in  his.  I saw myself hand her to him and I felt the weight lift.  The next morning, I went to her house and there she was sitting up on the bed and talking on the phone!  I knew God had done a miracle!  Rhonda did reach her appointed time to die and went on to be with Jesus, but his love we shared during those two years, impacted my life.  I pray many were touched by that time and somehow felt his love in the midst of the situation.  Rhonda’s grandparents were actually 15 miles from the town I grew up in, and I felt God allowed me to be there for her.  Perhaps because of a Grandmother’s prayer or just his special way of doing things.  I noticed a newspaper clipping on her wall when I first started going over to help her and it was from Borger, TX, 12 miles from where I grew up.  Since I live approximately 12 hours away from that location, I was amazed!

This was one of my “God’s Little World” moments and I have had many of them throughout my life. It’s one of those times,  when you have those moments and you wonder, “WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF THAT HAPPENING?”   Chances and numbers don’t mean a thing when God is in charge.  Diagnoses and situations don’t mean a thing when God is in charge!   We must live in a relationship with God, where we will allow him to carry all the load and we will trust him with the outcome!  I’ve always thought about the time we have here on this earth.  There will be a time when our earthly clock reaches the final moment and we will then be finished with our assignment.  It’s not what happens to us in this life that counts, but it’s how we react to what happens to us that counts.  I think a lot about many things that try to rob and steal our peace.  We are left with a choice!  Will we allow our peace to be taken, or will we put our anxiety in Jesus arms and let him defend us!  He will always be there and our job is just to be thankful in All things, because wherever we are or whatever we are going through, we can be thankful he has it all under his control.

My mom left so much of a legacy for us. It never fails, I will be going through some of the things she left, after she moved in with us.  Maybe something in a drawer, or a card she gave me.  Today, I found an article she had cut out about a little boy.  His mom had taken him to the Dr. as he didn’t feel well.  The Dr who was doing the exam, tried to get his mind off of the examination and said, “Let’s look in those ears, and see if Mickey Mouse is in there!”  He looked in his ears and then said, “I didn’t see him in there.”  The little boy smiled.  Then, the Dr. decided to listen to his heart.  He said, “OK…lets see if Mickey Mouse is in your heart.”  The little boy looked a bit more serious as the Dr listened.  He said, ” Nope, I don’t hear him in there either. “  Before they left, the little boy looked up at the Dr and said, ” Dr. I just thought you might want to know, Jesus lives in my heart!”

If only we could have the faith of a child, we would truly discover the Power To Achieve peace and success in our lives and leave a legacy that would touch many others, even when our last second on earth is done!

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