Life does not have an easy button

I always heard my Jamaican friend say, "Life's not easy, its full of rocks!" Well i've been walking on my share of rocks lately! The bottom of my feet hurts! It's a season where I know that God is listening but it's like He is saying, Renee, I cant give it to you now, you just wont get it yet! or Is He saying, Renee, I want to teach you how to wait on My perfect timing, I want to teach you how to submit, I want to teach you how to not break under pressure, I want to teach you how to praise me in your brokenness. It's like He's constantly whispering my name, saying daughter I GOT YOU! I am reminded of His unrelenting purpose, that all things were created through Him and for Him, Colossians 1:16 and that I was created in Christ Jesus for good works which He already prepared for me beforehand, Ephesians 2:10 . Each day I strive to be better than I was the day before. Today, I asked "Did I make you smile today Jesus?", as I maneuvered my life throughout the day serving! (Selah) And though the thoughts of I have to look for a job, I have to get a job, I have to work hard taunts my membrane every waking moment of every day, the times where I can hear someone say "thank you because I didn't know what I would have done without you", or the look on someone's face that lets them know they are important to you when you showed up, that my friend makes me know it was worth it. It was worth it to think of someone in the midst of personal trial. The time I gave, the Love I gave, it wasn't in vain. The rocky places reminds me that it's not about me, but about the sacrifice of love that speaks for Christ that lives in me. Well tomorrow is a new day, a day that I may not live to see, but today I lived, not for myself but for my Father in heaven! Today I lived and walked on rocks that built my strength for the future! Tomorrow...O don't worry about that! There will be food on the table, there will be wind to blow on your face to ease the heat of the bright burning sun, there will be bright colored birds to fly across your car to remind you, God is watching over you and thinking of you so much that His thoughts out number the sand, psalms 139:18. Rocky places, Yes they come and Yes you have to walk on them because if you just stand there waiting for it to smooth out, you wont endure, you wont produce, you wont progress, you wont learn! My friend the road of life is a journey that doesn't give you the expected but the unexpected! I just can't wait to see what God has in store. Until we meet again! Peace, Love, Grace and Mercy from the Father of Love!

P.S take time to behold the beauty along the way....

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing. But if any of you lacks wisdom, let Him ask of God who gives to all generously, and without reproach, and it will be given to him~James 1:2-5