This is another edited post from early February.
Good morning world. Just had a thought. I know, I know... it happens once in a while. I was upset a lot during the last 6 months of 2015 and the first couple of months into 2016. It is just stressful having extra people living with you and your family. No matter how good friends you are, it is very difficult for more than one family to live together even in the best of circumstances. What I have learned from this is I'm not just a creature floating through life. I have to have some say in what happens to me and my family, this is my responsibility. I do not believe God wants us to wander through life and wonder how things happen to us. Everything I do, everything I allow has consequences, whether they be good or bad.
Will I let anyone stay with us? If God prompts me, yes.
Another lesson learned from all this... I think God wants us to use our free will and go to Him with everything. Meaning have Him involved with every aspect of our lives. But I'm not helpless. I have a brain and God wants me to use it. I will no longer look at something that has happened and say how did that happen, or get upset over something that happened because I allowed it to happen.
I pray that God gives me grace in this area of my life! More later on the homesteading, old fashioned homemaking lists that I've been making too!
Be blessed and be a blessing,
Just some of my thoughts and actions,
Elizabeth
So true! I am so excited that you are looking at the situations and learning lessons from them. God is taking what was bad and turning it around for good for you! Very cool!
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