August 19, 2017
Good morning from Ft Pierce FL!
I arrived safely on
Tuesday night and as expected, stepped into an absolute whirlwind of duty and
chaos, all without my partner NOT by my side! I sure miss him. He is the one
who loves me the most and loves taking care of me. But that day I faced my giants
with only his sympathetic words coming from my phone!
While we were gone on
this trip, Our home had brand new flooring put in and a new kitchen and both
bathrooms updated. We are blessed with the loving care of our "spiritual
daughter" caring for us from afar. She is a blessing to us both and made
all this happen while we were in meetings during our recent trip to our WV
mission house.
The changes are
beautiful but oh my soul ~ I looked around after my first look at the beauty
and knew I was in trouble. I felt like Peter when he stepped on the water to
walk to the Saviour, and he "looked around at the storm" and began to
sink under the water, he took his eyes off Jesus and his faith wavered!
Yep, I did the same
thing Tuesday night. I let the things around me take my eyes off my Saviour.
All of my furniture
was pushed and shoved everywhere! Left behind leftover construction material
everywhere and everything is covered with TILE DUST from the ceilings to the
floor and every surface in between! Vision that!
Driving nearly 16
hours, I was so tired I just wanted to go to bed! But before I could do that I
had to wrestle a 500 lb plus treadmill which had our bed shoved up against the
wall, away from the bed, so I could remove the furniture on the bed. Sadly I
slipped a disc and now I am in excruciating pain. I somehow located my back
brace put it on and continued the cleanup. I stripped the bedding, dusted all
around, made the bed and by then I was truly exhausted and in much pain. Aren't
you tired thinking of that? This was all after I unloaded the Yukon
and at midnight by now! I'm tired all over again thinking about
it! LOL
I did what I could
and laid down. You know when you drive for long periods of time and you finally
lay down your body "hums" for a while. Well, mine does. I eventually
fell asleep but was up quite early to begin the cleanup process. The only
problem, my back. I could hardly maneuver enough to shower and dress. All I
could do was turn my back on the mess and walk out the door and head to the
Print Shop. I knew I would need help so I went to the shop instead.
I know ~ We hear it
all the time! How do they do what they do? Go the way
they go all the time? They are getting older and older but seem to get busier
than ever.
How do we do it?
Truly by Gods grace. He never fails us even when we fail Him. We are people
just like other people. Having blessings from God gives us many
responsibilities and we choose His way for our lives. We get tired, and pain
strikes us and we sometimes get to the point we can't go anymore.
But We don't get up
every morning and start our busy schedules without spending time with God.
He is my strength and
my high tower, my Saviour and my Father, my Guide and my Leader and I follow
Him by choice. Through the reading of my Bible, prayer
time, and my devotion time I gain strength for the day. That is how. I do get
weary and my faith fails me at times but the morning time with God gives me the
strength to go on. I loved Paul Chappell's devotion on Faith this week. It
helped me to keep focused on accomplishing His tasks for the day. Here is a
portion of it.
"Our faith is
not measured by what we say, but by what we do. If we truly believe God’s
promises, then we will claim them and act on them. We will never accomplish
what we should for God if we do not trust Him." ~Paul Chappell
I am putting all my
trust in Him. Why don't you. Your stories are just like mine we are people. We
allow the circumstances around us to overwhelm us and become tired and
discouraged. We in essence take our eyes off of Jesus. That's our weakest point
and the devil will attack as soon as you let down your guard, Christian. Before
I began the task of getting myself a place to lay down to sleep, I called my
sweetheart in tears. "I can't do this, I cried! I need you." Overwhelmed
he knew what to do. After we both cried awhile my
sweetheart took us to the feet of our Saviour in prayer!
It does work. "It
is just stuff", I said. It will get done when it gets done!
Forgive my long
rambling this morning. I missed posting so I'm making up for it. ☺️❤️
What giants are you
facing today? Health, finances, family, life in
general? If you are saved and know you are, take it to the
Saviour in prayer. He WANTS to help you, but you have to put your trust in Him.
If you are not saved, He still wants to help you. Your first step of faith, is
to accept Him as your "personal" Saviour.
KJV John 3:16 For God so
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Whosoever means you.
Put your name right there, pray and ask God to forgive you of your sins and your
unbelief and accept Him by faith!
You will NEVER
regret it.
I pray a little bit
of my heart has reached yours! We are truly blessed with many friends
and family who pray for us every day. We receive not only requests for us to
pray but many reminders from others letting us know they are praying for us.
Yes, through it all, We are loved and blessed!
Have a blessed day. LKMilam
Missionaries to America
Tom and Linda Milam
Phil. 2:16
