One of my close friends posted this as her Facebook status this morning, and I absolutely love it. It so closely applies to the way I am trying to live my life, the reason I want to compose this blog. The little things are the big things in our life-and if we can live with that belief in our hearts, we can truly believe.
It is only noon, but I had one big realization this morning. As much as I believe everything happens for a reason, I still sometimes have a difficulty wrapping my mind around it, especially in situations that have led us to places we might not have hoped for. But with the sun shining and reflecting off of the beautiful snow, I put several thoughts together and realized something.
The thoughts:
1. Feelings cannot be wrong. They are emotions- we cannot help our emotions or how we feel. We can only help how we react to them. But feelings and emotions are never wrong.
2. The Lord listens to our prayers. If we have asked Him to guide our heart to where He believes it should be, He will. He wants our hearts, He wants to guide us. So if we are willing to ask Him for that, there is no doubt that He will.
3. The devil is not capable of truly understanding love, and if there is a course that leads our heart to a true, strong, undeniable love, it is not the doing of the devil. The temptations and more negative emotions, the over-abundance of stress and difficulties, yes. But the devil capable of drawing us into a true, irrevocable feeling of caring, love, and kindness towards another, no. He just inserts the negative aspects so that the love can hurt us.
So what I put together from these thoughts:
If you have placed your heart in the hands of the Lord, asked for His guidance, and did your absolute best to trust in Him-where you ended up is where He wanted you to be. If you fell in love, you did it for a reason. There was a strong reason for it- and it was not so that you would end with a brokenness of your heart. The brokenness came when the devil saw the love and worked to try to break it apart.
Feelings are not wrong. The Father would never lead us into something that He did not want for us, that would hurt us.
So instead of questioning things of the past, look to the future, look to the Lord, and ask for His help in fighting away the evil one. Ask the Lord to continue to guide you, to heal, to show you where he wants you to go from here. Entrust yourself in the Lord, and He will lead you to a new life.
Father,
Today I thank you for the beauty and warmth of the sunshine. I thank you for the snow that brightens the world and the cold that gives rosy cheeks. I ask for your guidance and pray that you continue to work in my life and guide my heart. I pray that I might continue to live with the realization in my heart that the little things are really the big things, and that I might never take them for granted.
In Your Holy Name,
Amen
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