It’s late!  I’m breaking the cardinal rule of

No computer within an hour of bedtime.  I need to sleep but I also need to tell you

Don’t let the giants in your life Ruin your life.  In the past year we have talked together about the good and bad.

Happy and not so much.  (Check the links below).

Grief

Good Days

Thorns

and who am I really, to tell you about these things?  What grief have I known?

You might say that mine doesn’t measure up to yours.  you may be right.

I was talking to a friend and we were saying that we can’t compare ours to each other’s.

Whether it’s grief or joy, it’s ours.

Mine

Yours

and we each feel

whatever we feel and it’s big and it

hurts

or it’s big and it’s

abounding joy.

We study the Bible, every Wednesday at the big church on the corner, where lots of people worship on Sunday and fewer worship and study during the week.  We study and we talk about what we are studying and it’s

the best.

I learn and I talk (no surprise there) and I even listen and while it all happens

I learn more.

We have what we call a wrap up talk at the end of each Wednesday morning and it’s good.  I took a turn a few weeks ago.  I worked on that lesson and I learned.

My turn, was the story of David and Goliath and I had heard the story so many times I didn’t even need to read it before I prepared the talk.  But I did it anyway.  Read the story and listened to what God wanted to tell me about what I should say.

I wrote the words for that talk

Twice.

I read it and spoke it and changed the words and it wasn’t right.  I prayed and I listened and I wanted it to be what God wanted it to be and it wasn’t, I was sure.

I wrote it again.  The third time.  While I was writing I knew, He was getting through to me.  He was going to say some amazing things and He was going to use my mouth to plant seeds in hearts.

When I stood up to speak the words He gave me to speak

my heart was full and I talked and I learned while I was doing it and now I’m going to share it with you.

It’s unpolished, unprofessional, unscripted, unedited and it’s live.  There are mistakes and I talked and then we listened to a song and I hope you will 

hang in there and listen to the end.  Listen to the five points and

Be Encouraged

because God has great things for us

for you and me and we can’t, we just cannot keep going through life, being attacked and broken and worn out by

Giants.

God is good to give us hope

Be Encouraged.

And Now I will go to bed and I hope to sleep.