Season for Growth
I'm back.
And I don't think I've ever been happier, or more at peace with myself and with God before, except when I first got saved.
2008 was a rough year, fiendishly, notoriously hard on me. It began badly enough, got even worse from there, and then continued its downhill ride. Every time I thought my life couldn't get worse, I was proved wrong.
Only in December did it begin to pick up again. I think God decided that this poor girl should be given a break, even though the personal hell she went through was partly of her own making. Partly. Some bits were out of her control.
He was gracious and merciful, even though I'd already backslid badly.
Anyway, things have been picking up ever since. I feel like new earth, freshly dug. The digging part was painful, but essential for planting seeds. And now, it's time for the planted seeds to grow.
He reminded me in a shocking, lovely way of His call for me back in 2006, which I'd managed to forget and then confirmed it thrice again. It's good to be back, and be filled with a purpose, because I'd lost so much time.
Now I'm refreshed, and at peace, and beginning a new phase of life. It's all good. Though bad times will come, He is my refuge and my peace. Amen.
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. As it is written: He has scattered abroad His gifts to the poor; His righteousness endures forever. Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. ~ 2 Corinthians 9:8-11
And I don't think I've ever been happier, or more at peace with myself and with God before, except when I first got saved.
2008 was a rough year, fiendishly, notoriously hard on me. It began badly enough, got even worse from there, and then continued its downhill ride. Every time I thought my life couldn't get worse, I was proved wrong.
Only in December did it begin to pick up again. I think God decided that this poor girl should be given a break, even though the personal hell she went through was partly of her own making. Partly. Some bits were out of her control.
He was gracious and merciful, even though I'd already backslid badly.
Anyway, things have been picking up ever since. I feel like new earth, freshly dug. The digging part was painful, but essential for planting seeds. And now, it's time for the planted seeds to grow.
He reminded me in a shocking, lovely way of His call for me back in 2006, which I'd managed to forget and then confirmed it thrice again. It's good to be back, and be filled with a purpose, because I'd lost so much time.
Now I'm refreshed, and at peace, and beginning a new phase of life. It's all good. Though bad times will come, He is my refuge and my peace. Amen.
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. As it is written: He has scattered abroad His gifts to the poor; His righteousness endures forever. Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. ~ 2 Corinthians 9:8-11
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