Good morning! Before I get to today’s prompt for The Loft, I want to announce the winner of my GIVEAWAY for the Doris Durbin books. The winner is……………………….MARIA! Congratulations, Maria! Please email me your mailing information to [email protected] and I will get your books to you.
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Y’all, seriously, when I look at today’s picture prompt, I just have to laugh out loud. I have had this picture in my files for years and never knew quite what to do with it. So, that made it a perfect picture prompt.
I can sympathize with the poor fella. There are have been more than a few times in the past year that I have felt like just sitting down, covering up my head, and hiding from the world. Life is just hard, people. Just hard sometimes. It is times like this that we have two options:
- Cover up our heads and wallow in our hard
- Turn our faces up to Jesus and give Him our hard
Both options require something of us, but one is definitely worth the effort.
When I cover up my head and wallow in my hard like our hairy friend here is doing, my focus shifts onto my circumstances. When my focus is on my circumstances, whatever is troubling me grows larger and larger, and uglier and uglier. I feel defeated and depressed because my circumstance is being allowed to dictate my feelings. There is no joy, no peace, no contentment. In fact, when I am feeling like that I might as well just sing the song that we sang as kids, ”
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
I think I’ll go eat worms!
Ewww!
When I turn my face up to Jesus and give whatever is assailing me to Him, He reminds me that He can carry my load. In fact, He takes my load and tells me that His burden is light. Jesus knows all about my load because He experienced everything that we experience when He walked on this earth. He doesn’t just pay lip-service to commiserating with us. Nope, He gets it. He gives me peace for unrest, joy for sorrow, and contentment for discontent.
May I tell you one more thing? When you and I are slogging through the mud of life, Jesus gets right down there in the mud with us. He does not stand at a distance and yell, ‘get out of that mud and then I will help you!’ No, He meets us right where we are…mud and hard and all.
So, friend, take that sack off your head, toss those worms in the ditch, and turn your face up to Jesus. Give Him your hard circumstance and ask Him to give you His perspective on it. Ask Him to minister peace and hope and joy to your heart. There is no circumstance so big that Jesus is not bigger still. Trust Him!!
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November Prompts: The month of November will be all about Thanksgiving and being thankful. Any post, picture, poem, song about thankfulness is what we are linking up in November.
I hope you will plan to join us each week at The Loft Link-Up.
Now, it is time to link-up!!
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