August 9, 2010

Emotions are like a riddle



What is a riddle? It is something that is puzzling or confusing. Do your emotions ever do that to you? They do me at times. I know and love this one friend of mine so much. I had, had a time with my oldest child and my thoughts were tampered with by my effected emotions that spilled over onto her momentarily and unintentionally even. I know it almost sounds like it is contradicting even though it is not. Amazing how something negative can happen and contaminate other interactions and relationships we have. Does that mean that it was not necessarily dealt with? I do not think so. I believe we can deal with life as it happens and it takes time and God to help fade the hurt inside. That letting go and letting God thing that you seem to hear when you mention you are having a problem with something in your life. Sometimes that is more irritating than the problem I am having is. Oh give it to the Lord. That is the best thing to do but do you ever want someone to really help you and not just give you lip service. I sure do. Sorry if this sound to rough but honestly I think the more real people are the more people can really connect. Very difficult to connect to something you have no connection with. I wonder if that is part of the problem with people giving in or up…?
If we give power to the small things, then we are ignoring the big things. I think they all matter. Big or small. Every word spoken or not spoken matters. Whether we are bold, shy, bright or dark it is a mood. Mood matters. Moods come from the small things in life that add up or do not add up… Moods are like putting on colored glasses, it is the way we see our world. Bright and beautiful or gloomy and dark. Through these tinted spectacles we see are selves.
We have to prepare ourselves to deal with ourselves and others. Praying it through and finding that trusted someone that knows more than you, someone you look up to. It is easy just to talk to anyone who will listen. But the best thing to do is go to someone who is willing to hear you and teach you. Lift you up and help you move forward. If we go to someone like us or knows less than us what does that help? We vent, they vent and then what? Wring out all that emotion and if not dealt with we end up filling up with it again and then it spills out into our lives and all those who come in contact with us.
We can comfort the truth all we want with those things that make us feel better and what good does that do? If we do not change then nothing will change. We have to take the steps needed to get to the truth and deal with what we do have control over. We can control ourselves and others have to do that for themselves. So hard to see people struggle and want to help them and can not. We have to manage our moods, choose to live in God’s Wisdom and submit to the truth. We will get what we seek out to find. This may seem silly but truth is a lot like hide and seek. You have to be quiet, listen, pay attention to what is around you, move slowly and find what you are searching for.
Have a great day!
Tina Smith
Someone once said, "Success is when those who know you the best are those who love you the most."

Monday Motto - Please God

1 Cor 4:12-13 We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly.

Monday Motto: Please God

In this passage of scripture Paul gives tells us what he and the apostles do when bad things happen:

--they get to work
--they bless
--they endure
--they answer kindly

The more common way would look more like this:

 SIT DOWN, HAVE A FEW CHOICE WORDS TO SAY, COMPLAIN, AND SNAP BACK for the injustice of it all.

Working with your hands requires you to GET UP and DO SOMETHING  -- Put your energy into positive things. To bless means that you have to let alot just ROLL OFF like the water on a ducks back and FORGIVE. To endure you must be GROUNDED in the WORD and have that SHEILD of FAITH to quench all those firey darts of the enemy when you are persecuted. To answer kindly requires that you know that WHAT COMES OUT OF YOU WILL DEFILE YOU not what another says and so you reply with kindness...you do unto others as you have them do to you.

These things are hard to do especially when you get down to that last one when we want to REACT to what people around us are saying about us...BUT WITH GOD all things are possible.

Most of them boil down to : Will you please God or Man???

Father help us to please you at all times...help us when we are weak to speak kindly. Give us a heart transplant and hook us up to the true source of Christ within. Help us to know that when we see the impossible and we begin to feel like weak and lowly no good creatures because we have behaved un-Christlike that YOU ARE RIGHT THERE to help us. Let us ask for forgiveness quickly and forgive ourselves and start walking in CHRIST right where we are.

F & L'er
Starla

August 6, 2010

sMiLe & eNjOy ThE jOuRnEy = )

Children laughing.
Uncomfortable shoes.
Freshly cut grass.
Missing car keys.
Chocolate chip cookies,
warm from the oven.
Life is full of ups, downs, and changes...
The more love you give the more you will find.
Have a great weekend!

August 4, 2010

Motto for a Positive Outlook

Refuse to be unhappy;
be cheerful instead.
Refuse to let your troubles multiply;
just take them one by one.
Organize your time; keep your life simple
and exactly the way you want it.
Refuse to complain about things;
learn to improve your surroundings
and create your world
the way you believe it should be.
Refuse to dwell on the mistakes
or disappointments
that are sometimes a part of life;
instead learn how you can
make things better.
Be optimistic.
Be energetic and positive
about the things you do,
and always hope for the best.
Believe in yourself at all times
and in all aspects of your life.
Before you know it,
those wonderful dreams
you have believed in all your life
will come true,
and your life will be
the happy and successful life
that it was meant to be.
Ben Daniels
Have a great day!
Tina Smith
Someone once said, "Success is when those who know you the best are those who love you the most."

August 2, 2010

Carry with You These Gifts of the Heart...

Trust... that whatever happens,
there is someone who will understand.
Honesty... the feeling that you
never need to hold back.
Peace... in being accepted for
who you really are.
Beauty... in outlook
more than appearance.
Freedom... to be yourself,
to change, and to grow.
Joy... in every day, in every memory,
and in your hopes for the future.
Love... to last a lifetime,
and perhaps beyond.
D. L. Riepl
What a thought for me today...  These 7 things are gifts.   Very simple and what a blessing to have in life.  Take time to think today about these gifts and share them with the world.   = )
Tina Smith