There are those days… you know… we all have them… those days where everything in our life seems to be so overwhelming and out of our control. I will not say that I live with anything worse than another soul. Let’s just say that sometimes I get bombarded with the totality of our circumstances, and it causes a bit of an emotional stagger to my step. I can sometimes feel so encumbered with the weight of life’s realities, I seem to have no strength to move, let alone breath through the pain.

Here is where today’s Note to Self #2 helps out:

“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me” Philippians 4:13

Notice how it does not say anywhere in there about things being easy, nor does it say He will remove it from our cup… it simply reminds me, that if He thinks I am able to carry on, walking through the pain I am experiencing, then He will sustain me through it! For me, fully walking with God has cost me both friends and family… some by my own folly and others by my getting up and walking on without shame any longer.

If Jesus was willing to take what was handed him by the world, and still lay down his own life to fulfill the will of His Father… and to save US… then I can stand! Not just stand, but walk forward in faith!

Forgiveness will be my Banner, and His Grace will be the very breath I exhale, each and every moment… until He comes for us!

Here, have a goodie…

Mary Poppins sang that “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”, so I thought I would try it!