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Today is Friday...

Its a short relief from the week, I don't work Friday nights, but I do have to work 8 hours tomorrow starting at 8 AM.  Tony our son has slept through the night for the last 3 nights, for about a week, he'd wake up every 2 hours cause he's been sick.  Its nice to be getting more sleep.  At Teen Mania, I wondered what all the waking up in the middle of the night was accomplishing in my life, but now I realize that its part of life when you have a young child.  At least I can say I've done it before.

I was listening to Charles Stanley on the way to school today, one of my favorite teachers.  Today's message was very practical and powerful.  You can listen to it here if you want. http://www.intouch.org/myintouch/broadcasts/archives_77395.html pick today's message.  He spoke about hard times in our life, how the first thing we tend to do is look at the circumstance more than God, next we start to feel stressed emotionally and physically, after that we start to hear and believe the whispers of Satan.  Doubt starts coming into our minds.  I've found myself in this place so many times, and its hard to get out.  God has been speaking to me a lot lately about speaking His word, promises and truth about Himself even if we don't feel it.  Eventually our thoughts and emotions should follow, but it doesn't always happen right away.  Anyway, the point of it was, how to get back into faith after doubt has clouded our minds.  We need to remind ourself of the truth of God's word, and when we talk out loud, speaking to God and to ourself, we start to realize how big God is in comparison to our situation.  Then we begin to see things from His perspective, we see a mole hill, when a few minutes before we saw a huge mountain...  God has been speaking to me so loud and clear the past couple days, this is not the end of the road!!  I feel like I'm hitting a brick wall in my life, and it would seem that way, but God is almost shouting at me with such excitement "This is not a brick wall! This is not the end! This circumstance is no different from all the other circumstances I have brought you through the first 23 years of your life." I know I should be worried, I know I should be disturbed, but I'm not, I'm excited about the plans God has for my life and for my family.  I'm so easily overwhelmed, but right now I'm not, not because I learned how to keep from being overwhelmed, but because to God, Goliath is a dwarf!  Anyway, time to go pick up the little Tony from grandma's.

here he is