"Now you have a wonderful day, ma'am"

As I was walking to work this morning, I was just about half out of it. I was groggy (still am), and had taken some headache medicine (one of the the reasons I am groggy). So, I was walking along my usual route, not really taking in my surroundings (even though they are awesome; I walk past the U.S. Capitol, Library of Congress, and Supreme Court, it's really beautiful).



I had stopped at a street, waiting to be able to cross, when a man came up to me. I assumed he was going to ask directions (that happens all the time, guess I look like a real 'Washingtonian,' or something), but he said something else. He looked me right in the eyes and said, "now you have a wonderful day, ma'am." He said this as he was walking away backwards, and I said, "thanks, you too!" That was the last thing I was expecting, but what a nice surprise!



So I had the thought as I made my way on to work. That really made me smile, a total stranger telling me to have a wonderful day... but why did it take something like that? Why wasn't I already smiling? Why hadn't I already thought, 'today is going to be a wonderful day"? Gooooood question. I really do wake up every morning, thanking God for another day, but I need to take a step further, and ask for a wonderful day. Now, wouldn't that just be the way to start a morning? Especially for me, being that I'm so NOT a morning person...



*warning: change of subject*



Okay, so I stayed up until 1 am last night (this morning, if you're picky) writing. I wasn't going to post it on a blog, because I just posted one two days ago. I thought that I would wait until next week. Well, now I'm just going to post it. Because I feel like it.



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My prayer for you, dear friend, is difficult to convey.

I want happiness for you, overwelming love for you.

And the only real way to have and know these is to believe in Miracles...



It's that missing something, that hole you have been trying to fill.

It's the power that created you, created everything that exists.

It's the pull you feel when things aren't going right.

It's the wall you hit when you are trying to run away...



We all have our own personal demons. It is up to us; either to face them head on, or let them ru(i)n our lives...



So, dear friend, what is your choice? You can keep running in circles, and wonder why nothing ever seems to go right... or you can let Him in. You can let yourself Believe that He is Holy. That events really can occur on this earth that bend the 'laws' of the Universe (laws as we humans define them). You can believe in the seemingly impossible. Then you can go further, and start to live your life according to His Word. If you do this with your whole heart, then the things of this world will not matter any more. Once you have reached this point... then you will know what is truly meaningful...



This is my prayer for you, dear friend. This is my prayer for the whole world...



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A prayer for myself.



I need to be absolutely diligent in identifying my own demons. Some are just more obvious than others. Then I need to cast them on God. All of them. Every last one. Even the one's that seem insignificant. Because they are holding me back. And, if you can't tell already, I am tired of worldy excuses; I am so ready to have 'all of that' behind me.



I feel like I've tackled the big ones. At least acknowledged them, physically and emotionally put a stop to them. But there are still those hidden ones. The one's that fool me into thinking I can fix them on my own.



And the reality is; I can't. So I turn to God. I pray to God.



It is an earnest moment. A freeing moment. I have a love/hate relationship with times like this. I hate having to think about them, the roots of my problems. But I love how it feels to dig them up and give them to God. I was not born to bear these heavy burdens alone. And for that I am eternally grateful.

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Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 55:22 (KJV)

5... "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
10 And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
11 To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.

I Peter 5:5-11 (KJV)