Peace that pass all understanding

First of all I have to say from the

bottom of my heart Thank You!!

I don't feel that I can explain to

you how much I have felt all of

your prayers today!

I can not find the words to

express to you how good God has

been to me today. I have NEVER

experienced a day of sheer peace

like I experienced today. I honestly

can't explain it.

Here's how the day started.... My boss calls and leaves a message on my cell

phone that she and another staff member would be out. So she told me to

arrange an already overloaded schedule to cover for them. I'm telling you

that when I walked in the door I felt His peace already begin to blanket over

me. One of the young guys on staff immediately commented on how upbeat

I was and when he learned of the schedule confusion he said "Wow, you really

are calm". Here's how we started off staffing this morning- I said some of you

know the scripture in Colossians I'm fixing to quote..."Whatever you do, work

at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.". And that's how

we started off our day.

Has any of the circumstances I'm walking in right now changed? No. As a

matter of fact they got worse today! Still the day and the satan that tried so

hard did not shake me. I feel like today is the first day in a few months that

my head has been lifted from a fog. I still have some things to do to move

past this place and get in gear.

A sweet friend sent me an email last night and was telling me about her

thoughts in her own life about making decisions. It spurred these thoughts

on my circumstances....I've been sitting in front of a calm lake taking in the

beautiful view. In my life right now that means I've become content in my

surroundings and my focus on getting things done have slipped my mind.

God has thrown a rock in the water causing me to snap out of my day

dream. He has my attention and I'm listening.

He has been speaking to me through some devotions that have come my

way. I mean they have come one right after the other. I want to share

one today and the other two tomorrow. This one is Oswald Chambers:

"In stripes, in imprisonment, in tumults, in labours"- in all these things

manifest a drawing upon the grace of God that will make you a marvel

to yourself and to others. Draw now, not presently. The one word in

the spiritual vocabulary is now. Let circumstances bring you where

they will, keep drawing on the grace of God in every conceivable

condition you may be in..... The inevitable barries are there in every

in every one of our lives. They may not be of an intense order....

but the peril is lest we lie down and whine and are of no more good.

The thing to do is to recognize that the barriers are inscrutable, that

they are there not by chance but entirely by God's permission, and

they should be faced and not ignored....The peril of the inevitable

barriers is that if I have not faced the facts sufficiently, I am apt

to blame God for them....It is no use to spend my time saying, I

wish I was not like this, I am just like it. The practical point in

Christianity is- Can Jesus Christ and His religion be of any use to

me as I am, not as I am not? Can He deal with me where I am, in

the condition I am in?"

Thank you guys again for your faithful prayers....Blessings to you!