KEEP ON KEEPING ON!

Having said I would do a blog message every Monday and having absolutely nothing to say for the past few weeks is so totally frustrating.  But this morning feeling the exact same defeated way about it -  it dawned on me.  Write it anyway.  Even if I've nothing to say, being faithful to the decision to do a blog and then writing something even if it is just plain nonsense still fulfills that decision.

I think my follow through might just be as important as if I truly had a great message to share.  There is something about taking the next step or doing the next thing on the agenda in spite of how we feel or think or even are within our heart and soul each day.  How many times in life will we be totally thrown down or punched in the gut and not know what to do or how we feel or what in the world we want to do about it. 

Well, then just do whatever it is in your life that you are supposed to do.  I am grieving right now with a couple of Moms who just miscarried and the grief is huge HUGE but they also have other children and I know in both instances they are being brave, strong, responsible and doing what they need to do each moment as it demands.  Diapers to change, food to fix, games to play and time to rest, when the babies are down, are the things that come to mind.  Doing the next thing is all that the Dear Lord looks for and is gracious enough to grant His loving arms to help us accomplish.

Life that is in tragedy as our dear hurricane victims, or in sorrow as my dear young mothers or just in a blah state of mind and daily routine like me or anyone else, the Dear Lord is hoping we are still faithful to Him, to our loved ones, to our work or ministry and we thank Him each day that it is a new day to hope and to expect great things - even miracles.  So let's just keep on keeping on.  I am and I will, but Dear Lord never leave me or make me do it alone.

DOLDRUMS

In my day we called them the "doldrums" when we were not so much depressed as just a sort of mental blah or dare I say "funk"?  How outdated is that word today?  It seems my 75th birthday gave me a sucker punch I wasn't expecting and I haven't bounced back yet.

Nothing seems to be happening.  I wanted to be faithful every Monday to a blog post and haven't had a word come to mind for two weeks.  It was August 14th and I am almost into October and can't seem to get a handle on anything.  But at this age wasted time is not an option.  God's Word says that He will redeem the years the locust has eaten (Joel 2:25).  So I am going to hope and pray that He gives me back these weeks somehow in some sort of productivity with results.

I'm wanting to find a way to earn some income writing.  My only problem is I'm NOT writing.  For me this "getting old" stuff constantly baffles me or just plain trips me up.  Either way, it can be a real challenge and an even greater frustration.

Still I know you have to agree when I say - we've only one option and that is just awake each day with hope and a positive attitude and an "I will and I can" that won't quit.  Hopefully I will take my own words to heart and today is the day that it will finally come together and happen for me.