Bible Talk~~~Nothing Too Hard

"Is anything too hard for the Lord?" Genesis 18:14a

Recently in one of our devotional times my grandchildren and I call "bible talk" we came to this scripture.

As we talked about Sarah and her situation we got on to the subject of my cancer. I told them that nothing was too hard for God. If He wanted to cure me of my cancer He could in a heartbeat. That the thing to remember is whether or not He wanted to cure me or not.

As hard as it is for a ten to fourteen year old to understand God allows things to happen for a reason it's true. Often the reason for these moments is to get our attention. Being the stubborn and stiff- necked people we are its not easy to get our attention unless we are going through hard times.

I must confess some of the greatest lessons I have learnt and maturity I have grown was during hard times. I trust God that this time of my cancer is no different. God has a purpose for allowing this to happen. He has plans for me in Heaven and plans for my family here on earth.

I am sure He wants all of us to learn to trust Him and believe in His will whether we understand it or not. As with my epilepsy I don't believe God gave it to me to fill some quota of having a certain number of epileptics on earth. I believe it just happened and God was more interested in what I was going to do with it. Same with my cancer He didn't give it to me to be mean or because He was bored or something. It just happened and He is watching to see how I behave during this time. Am I going to turn against Him or trust Him to see me thru.

I am trusting Him to see me thru and see my family thru. He loves me and I love Him. I know nothing is too hard for Him. I don't understand why I had to get cancer but I know things will work out whether I am cured or not.

They Call Me,

Grandma


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A Moment of Silence

On December 21, 2012 at 6:30am Pacific time there was a moment of silence for the people who were killed in Newtown Ct. Twenty six bells chimed in honor of each victim. As I stopped to observe this moment of silence I thought of the song "I heard the bells on Christmas day."

I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

I thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along th' unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

And in despair I bowed my head
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good will to men."

Till ringing, singing on its way
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

In despair we have all bowed our heads thinking in our hearts that there is no peace on earth. Truly hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men. The important thing to remember is not the fact that hate is strong but the fact that our Lord is not dead, nor does He sleep.

He wasn't asleep when the tragedy happened nor is He slumbering now. Eventually wrong will fail and right will prevail and there will be peace on earth, good will to men. In the meantime we need to continue to pray for the families of those affected by this tragic event and offer them the comfort they need instead of trying to come up with answers.

When we go seeking it is faith we will eventually find not answers. Faith and trust that God is in control even though our enemy the devil has his jurisdiction on earth as well.  Trying to come up with the answers to our "Why?" questions will get us no where. Leaning on our faith in God will lead us out of the sad and rocky situations we find ourselves in into brighter days and healing.

Years ago when I had epilepsy I nearly beat myself to death trying to find out the answer to question of "Why did this happen to me?" It wasn't until I was told that 90% of my seizures were stressed caused that I figured it out that I had to give up my search for "Why." When I did the stress of seeking something that wasn't for me to know was gone and my seizures improved.

Over twenty years after being cured of my epilepsy I got breast and bone cancer. The question of why could have popped up but I had learned that lesson years ago. There was no answers and to try and go down that road again would only end up on the same dead end street I found myself on during my time of the uncontrolled seizures of epilepsy.

Faith is our strength to endure not answers. God bless those affected by this event in not only Newtown but other events in life such as a death from cancer, a tragic accident, loss of income, relationship struggles. Everywhere we look there are dark corners but if we trust in God eventually the light of Jesus will come to every corner but only if we grant it access through our faith.

A lesson from my garden

Several weeks ago in the middle of the night we had a wind storm go thru our garden with winds up to 60 miles per hour. The next morning when my husband went outside to check on the animals he noticed something different about the garden.

 

Walking over there to explore what it was that was different he noticed the corn was totally flat. It wasn't only flat but halfway down the rows of corn there was a circled spot where it was beyond just flat. It almost looked as if that was where the wind tunnel originally touched down. Running into the house he got me to go and take a look. "Wow!" I said. I had never seen anything like that before. The entire crop of  tall stalks of corn over seven feet tall was lying flat on the ground with the remainder of the garden and yard untouched.

 

After marveling over the loss of our corn crop we went to work. I figured I would get a picture of this later and share it with my friends on Facebook. That night when I got home from work it was dark so I planned on taking a picture of the corn the following morning on Saturday once it got daylight. Much to our surprise come Saturday morning, almost two days after the corn was flattened, we woke up to a big surprise. The corn was standing upright!

 

How could it be? One day it was flat on the ground and now it was standing once more. Was it really going to be okay? Would we ever see a kernel of corn off of them? Well it's been over a month now and the corn remains standing and is producing terrific corn.

 

As I stand and look at the corn as it stands tall in the garden I think of the lesson we can learn from it. Often in life there is something that touches down in our lives that knocks us down flat. We have the choice to stay down there or get back up and keep moving forward. God has equipped us to be able to do that no differently than the corn stalks He created. We should use that which God has supplied us with and pop back up in an upright position so quickly that world around doesn't even have a chance to notice we are down.

 

I don't know what it was that made the corn come back up but what we have is the Holy Spirit within us to help pop us back up. We have God's written word of encouragement and directions to help as well. Recently when a devastating thing struck my family, as my youngest granddaughter cried I told her we need to just trust in the promises of God. That is what will help up stand upright once again is trusting in the promises of God thru any storm.

 

Another lesson from my garden is the one from the sunflower that is standing near the corn. The lesson I learn from it is the fact that every morning it faces the morning sun and follows it thru the day. It would do us well to begin and end our day the same way, facing the rising Son, Jesus Christ. Truly this is another way that will help us to stand upright when life knocks us down.

 

Thank you Lord for the lessons learned and the beauty You have created in my garden both physically and spiritually. You are the best Gardener there is! I love you.