Encouragement comes in all forms . . .

I’ve had, what seems to be, a rough morning . . . overslept the alarm, felt like a pile of poop upon waking, just a struggle from my first conscious moment. And right in the midst of it, I was putting on my makeup, I heard HIS voice whisper in my ear “it’s a new day”. Now yesterday wasn’t bad, I felt HIS presence all day long and just rejoiced in the day, but this morning I felt sideswiped and so HIS whisper was a reminder that there were new mercies for whatever I would encounter this day ~ so on I march. Got to work and checked out our bank account on line and low and behold over drawn due to an unauthorized payment being taken out. Blah Blah Blah, I was crushed and frustrated and in the middle of it I wanted to cry but couldn’t stay in the muck! I felt like I was being pulled out of the muck before I sat down in it and I didn’t ask to be pulled out but there stood a FAITHFUL FRIEND, pulling me up and out and I hadn’t even asked for HIS help yet!! How sweet COVENANT is!! So here I sit at work, completing each task, one by one and I’m standing outside of the pit of muck with a smirk on my face. The pit is still there, but I don’t have to sit down in it! Something so simple yet so big to me. Go figure. Then for a quick break I log onto a blog that I visit occasionally and blam!!! there on the post for 04/18 more encouragement (I’ll let you read it for yourself) but it’s a total confirmation of what I’ve been hearing from my FRIEND. And it’s not about some overdrawn bank account . . . it’s life, the daily walking out of life. Oswald Chambers said “Jesus did not promise us overcoming life, but life as we overcome”. I agree!