I've gotten up again from my birthday blues...

I am so low in serotonin, it takes very little to knock me down. Just the reminder of a birthday and I have fallen, again. Thank God for brethren and churches that are there to pick me up again. It is like falling into a deep pit. As soon as I look at the faith of that youngster who birthed these bunch of children, I fall into the hole. The sermon and the services on Sunday were enough to assist me and I am wiping off myself to start afresh. I won't look down. It was so encouraging to look into the Word of God and today it was time to remember Emily. How many times we reproved her for her mouth. A Soft Word turns away wrath...We repeated it again and again and after awhile she stopped name calling as often. We remembered the tender tastebuds she had throwing up at every new taste that hit her tongue and her convinced mind that she saw Jesus coming down from the sky with a plane that past. How diverse were the situations that we had to deal with with her. How more similar to my faith journey of misunderstandings of what God might be saying in this or that passage. She always came with her own understanding to be pried from her clutching grasp and replaced with truth. Elyse always said, I want to know what God is saying. Em always said I already know what God is saying. I want to do it my way. I identify with both ways in some part of my being. This rainy Thursday, has me praising God for fresh promises of new fulfillment and good memories of how God has pried my personal misunderstandings from my clutch to replace it with His Higher Ways. The reminder of the study that got me to this point in the morning service, from Pastor Paxton and the marching music and rejoicing that infused the joy of the Lord through Worship and Praise were great reminders of what has helped me walk in past days and throughout my life. I am grateful that we are not left to our own devices and I would be stuck on the rocks were it not for the Church of Christ and the means of Grace in every race and creed and tongue that have been used by God to "deliver me". Thank You, Jesus.