Today was such a blessing to me, after the rough week that I have been faced with.  My problems did not go away, but I turned around my attitude towards them.  We are such powerful beings, if we set our minds to something, it can be achieved.  We also have choices, constant choices, the whole day long.  The decisions we make influences the here and now.

I think the spiritual warfare prayers that I posted on this blog yesterday just showed me once more, I have been saved, because I have accepted Jesus as my Savior.  Nothing can touch me.  I have the Holy Trinity that loves me so much and the angels helping me on my path.  I am so protected.  All I have to do is ask.  The devil plays with our doubts and fears and that is how he manages to take our peace.

How beautiful is the quote I started this blog with today?  It just inspired me so much.  I got up this morning very concerned about one of my best friends landing up in hospital during the night, but praise the Lord she is back at home, because I decided to not stress but pray instead.  See I made the choice - I could drive myself insane with worry or I could lay it before God's feet and believe.

That made me adamant that nothing was going to steal my peace today.  My angels have been prompting me to earth myself more this whole week, if they ask me to do that they want me to get into nature in some or other way.  Gardening, a nice walk, a drive along the beach or anything that will bring me closer to mother nature and makes me ground myself.  Due to all of the stress I allowed to take over my life this week, I felt dreadful and did not even have the strength to have a walk with my Huskies.  Well, therein lay my whole problem.

I was stuck in an office or home the whole time feeling sorry for myself.  Well, not today.  I got up, went through my Facebook for inspiration, connected with some old friends on a page that connects school friends and then I was off to my mom's to clean the koipond. Best move I could have made, being close to flowing water, having the koifish that my father loved so much close to me and my moms lab trod-ding behind me as I worked to clean the pond.  With the sun on my face and the birds singing in the trees, as it was a glorious day here in Cape Town.  A friend of my mom came over and while the pond filled with water, we sat outside in the sun, having a nice glass of white wine and chatting away, as we woman do.  On my way home I decided I hadn't had enough yet, so I fetched my two Huskies and off we went into nature again.

I felt blessed the whole day, I have the most awesome handsome boys, a loving supporting husband, beautiful animals, God's creation all around me and a very caring mother and sister.  To top it all, I have been blessed with the most amazing in-laws as well.  We had our hick-ups, but today I am very honest when I say I don't even see them as in-laws anymore.  I could go on and on and on.  All of these blessing don't cost me anything and I just thanked God for what I had continually today and thanked Him that He would bring me out of the storm once again, by blessing me even more.

See I came to a profound realisation recently.  When are we unhappy?  When are we in storm phases in our lives?  Let's be honest many times it is, because we would like things differently than how God has planned it our for us.  We are knocking our heads against the wall, instead of rejoicing always.

You might say, yeah sure there she goes again, but it is not always possible.  I totally agree, but we always have the choice to be happy in any circumstance.  We should realise the blessings around us even in the worst times, even if we can't get ourselves to rejoice.  In the end we are only human.



So I decided to really surrender all today!  And that is one of the powerful three word scriptures again.  God can say a lot with few words.  Ponder over these words, because it means the same as "Your will be done".  We are believing in God unconditionally, that He will just have the best intentions for us always.  That we should see Him in any situation good or bad.  Either we are learning a lesson and receiving wisdom or we are receiving one of His many blessings in our life.  We need to thank Him for the good and the bad.  Because what we sometimes perceive as bad is a blessing in disguise.

I am going to say goodbye today with "The Lords Prayer", because this is the way that Jesus taught us to pray.

Wishing you lots of love, light and happiness together with many blessings!