have you ever thought about the fact that tough times are real opportunities to test yourself and to test your faith? oh GOD already knows about us and our faith but we don't and it is in tough times when we survive that we see what GOD is really doing in us in building that something in us that makes us truly able to make it.
tough times are also times to clean out a lot of unnecessary stuff in our lives. we find out what is really important.
we have just gone through a move from a larger house down to a smaller one. that meant that we got rid of a lot of unnecessary stuff that we don't miss. even the unnecessary room that we used to have we don't miss now but we wouldn't have known that if we hadn't gone through the change.
well just some thoughts here on a snowy day in long island, ny.
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God has been testing my faith for the last year. Keiji has been out of work for more than a year. We, too, have had to let go of unnecessary things. But I had a hard time of letting one thing go... our home in Las Vegas. We are going to foreclose on it. I know it is just a bunch of wood stuck together, but I became attached to it over the 3 years I lived there. We bought it, on our own. I thought we would live there forever. It became my home. It's where we brought our first puppy home to, then our second. Our friends and family visited often. It's where Kirra was born. But as the weeks go on, I am letting it go. I am grateful that God has given us a new house to live in. The transition has been hard. I enjoy California, but I didn't know if I ever wanted to live here again. However, I am grateful for the roof over my head, the food in my belly, the blankets on my bed, the clothes on my back. And, we are all healthy. What more could we ask for???
We are close to our family and friends. The house is falling apart, but I am confident that God will provide Keiji with a job and we will then be able to fix up the house.
God had a different plan for us than what we thought he had. After realizing his plan, instead of fighting for our own, things happened the way they were supposed to.
So, yes, times are tough. It's a time that we have grown to depend on God, to be faithful to Him and His plan for us. I don't know why God hasn't given Keiji a job yet. But during the last year, we have grown even closer together. And in the future, we will look back on these times as a learning experience and we will be able to better appreciate what has been provided to us.
i believe in you kristin and i believe in keiji. but also understand that GOD believes in you and loves you. yes a lot of stuff in your life has gone by the way but you have each other and you have kirra. i am so glad that i have had the priviledge to be a part of your lives. i love all of you and know that you are survivors. at some part in your lives you will see that these have been good years that have built something into you that will never be take from you. GOD know what you can handle and now you do too. you are survivors
Tough times are truly that in which challenges our being and our faith and who and whst we find to be important. Even in the midst of the unbelievable and unforgettable, we have to accept and asknowlege that God knew this was going to play out this way. Even with all the pain and tears endured during the tough times, and when it is yes, the hardest thing to cope with we buid on knowledge we have always had and get a better grasp on the truth!! Truth is that, we DO have an AWESOME GOD!! He loves us unconditionally and will be ther in any moment that arises on our paths. It yet, it always super difficult to swallow the fact that we have to accept HIS way is the right way, no matter what; when we stray, he hates to see us go; but he will always always pick us up and dust us off if we simply ask for HIS forgiveness and folow the LOrd GOD's way!! It is a beautiful, narrow and sometimes extremely difficult path and journey to be on, but the reward in the end is far better than anyhting we can, have, or will expierence here on Earth!!
so true amanda but you are growing in these tough times. i'm proud of you for the right decisions you are now making. now right decisions on our part do not necesarily mean that others make right decisions. GOD has given us all free choice and HE will not force HIS way on us. we must ask for it. tough times are our opportunity to show that we will make right choices. that is character and that is what matters to GOD.
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