Think and Rejoice

On By vickleaIn Uncategorized

I’m going to do a different kind of post today. I want it be interactive. So, before you read too much, I want you to prepare to type or write, whatever you are comfortable doing. Now, I’m going to pause for a minute while you write a list of the things that have happened to you in your lifetime. Go ahead. Do it, please. My list will follow below.

Sickly childhood with some emotional abuse

College and college debt

Met my future spouse on a bus and married him eight months later

Harry left for SC and I continued to teach in VA in order to fulfill my contract

I was pregnant and alone and scared

Moved to SC, the first of 25 moves with the military

One move was to Maine and I really disliked living there

Bought a house and moved to PA

No job for me in PA, so moved to MD

Life threatened by a student in MD

Moved to VA, where I taught until I retired

Got my first grandchild in 2002 and now have nine

One grandchild passed away in the womb in 2015

Retired in 2017

Four surgeries, including knee, sinuses, parathyroids and recently a paraesophageal hernia

Now, take that list that you have written and reflect on how God was with you in everything. Because whether we are aware or not, God has always been there and will always be there. Nothing happened in my life and nothing will happen that God doesn’t know about. I used to listen to Andrae Crouch a lot and I was delighted to find the following video on YouTube. It is from a Billy Graham rally “back in the day” but if you listen to the whole thing, I am certain that you will be blessed. He starts with his testimony of how he got started as a musician and then he sings a song that I haven’t thought about in many years, but God brought it to my mind this morning, very early.

“Through It All” by Andrae Crouch

May you have a blessed day and remember to count your blessings because God has been with you through everything and He is walking with you into whatever the future may hold!

11 thoughts on “Think and Rejoice”

  2. Diana (Fille de Dieu) 🛐's avatar Diana Tyler (la muse excentrique) ☕

    This seems to be the message that I’ve been receiving lately everywhere I turn. He never forsakes us no matter what we may be going through.

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  4. I was replying in a similar vein to another post: God tells us to write things down, so that we may remember. This gives us opportunity to reflect on where He’s led us, the miracles He’s wrought in our lives, hope for the future, and also a way to change our perspectives on our past.

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  7. You are the 3rd blogger in a row today to give a similar message. One blogger talked about what a big God we serve and how he is there for us through anything we are going through. That was followed by another blogger encouraging us to give thanks to God in all things, even the tough things in life.

    And, then here you are giving a similar message about how God is with us through it all. I used to sing that song in church when it first came out, I think. So encouraging!

    The Lord must be getting me ready for something for 3 X in a row I had this message of trusting the Lord with my circumstances, giving him Thanksgiving and relying on Him through everything. So, thank you, Vickie.

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    1. You are welcome, but I must admit that I allow God to lead me on my blog posts daily. I used to sing Through it All in church many years ago and it still blesses me today. God bless you, Sue!

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  8. As Sue mentioned above this is something the Holy Spirit has placed on several bloggers hearts to write about.

    Gid want us to know these things as a fact in our own lives and not something just read about in biblical times.

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