Tears in the back seat. Unhappy, emotional tears.<\/p>\n
A pressure cooker in the front seat. Emotion from past days building. Driving, trying to keep it all in. Tears and emotional outbursts are just not acceptable at this age. What’s a mom to do?<\/p>\n
Driving on. Dropping off my husband’s forgotten item to work.<\/p>\n
It’s beautiful outside. August summer day. Warm, a few white cotton balls surrounded\u00a0in perfect blue. We continue our drive back to town. The\u00a0landscape breathtaking. I breathe slower. Rolling hills covered in shades of green. Beautiful. Yet inside my heart still steaming.<\/p>\n
It’s not about the tears. The emotions. The stubborn will. It’s deeper than that.<\/p>\n
Body calming. Fingers loosen their grip on the steering wheel. And in my heart, I hear God whisper, “Burden or blessing?”<\/p>\n
Sharp and stabbing yet cool and refreshing. Burden or blessing. Yes, Lord, yes! I am not seeing clearly.<\/p>\n
Situations, people, things, and circumstances. Often I am quick to see the bad, the negative. Too often I take as burden before I stop and see the blessing, see God.<\/p>\n
God in the midst of it all. God in my life. Where there is God there is blessing.<\/p>\n
The kids, burden or blessing? The house, burden or blessing? Friendship, burden or blessing? The red light, burden or blessing? The trip cancelled, burden or blessing?<\/p>\n
Sometimes the bad screams louder than the blessing. Still, I would guess most times if we look, really look we would see….see the blessing. See God.<\/p>\n
What we see as burden God is often creating, stirring a blessing. Do you trust Him? Do you trust He is good? Will you open your heart? Will you see God’s artwork? Will you see the blessing He is creating before you?<\/p>\n
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Psalm 31:19\u00a0How great is the goodness\u00a0<\/span>you have stored up for those who fear you.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>You lavish it on those who come to you for protection,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>blessing them before the watching world.<\/em> NLT<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Jeremiah 29:11\u00a0For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord<\/span>, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.<\/em> NKJV<\/p>\n Psalm 21:6-7\u00a0For you make him most blessed forever;\u00a0<\/span>you make him glad with the joy of your presence.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>For the king trusts in the Lord<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>and through the steadfast love of the Most <\/em>High he shall not be moved.<\/em> ESV\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Numbers 6:24-26\u00a0The Lord<\/span> bless you and keep you; the Lord<\/span> make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord<\/span> lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.<\/em> ESV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tears in the back seat. Unhappy, emotional tears. A pressure cooker in the front seat. Emotion from past days building. Driving, trying to keep it all in. Tears and emotional outbursts are just not acceptable at this age. What’s a mom to do? Driving on. Dropping off my husband’s forgotten item to work. It’s beautiful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","sharing_disabled":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[11,6,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160728_124152.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7NWg5-8Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}