SHINNING |

I had a patient who came in yesterday and she complimented me on how pretty I looked and about my hair. She started asking me all these random questions like: Do you have a new boyfriend? No ma’am I wouldn’t really consider him new. I didn’t even 1st think to ask are you married? No ma’am I am not married. Are you getting ready to get married? No ma’am not at the moment. Well there has been something different about you lately. You’ve just been looking so pretty and very beautiful lately. I said did I not before? I’m thinking in my head I have on scrubs and my hair is in a pony tail. She said no I didn’t mean it that way. It’s just something about you. We just laughed and when she walked off my co-worker looked at me like what was that all about. Me with my hands in the air I DO NOT KNOW. I didn’t even feel that bubbly yesterday. I was tired, feeling some kinda way. By the end of the day that same patient had checked out and was inquiring again about me to another co-worker. You would have thought she was trying to find out this big secret that I was keeping. I have had several people say different things about noticing a difference and this glow about me. If they only knew what I was really feeling and am experiencing behind this smile. There are times I am struggling, battling, trying to keep my self from crying or having a nervous break down, I don’t feel like I have it all together or even feel like being strong. The only thing I can sum up is the fact that I am happy, free and at peace and in spite of what I might be experiencing and what’s inside me supersedes it all. “Greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world” 1 John 4:4 #CLEANTHISHOUSE

With You by James Fortune

We were leaving out one morning and I realized how dark it is now. When we first moved into our new home I realized we had NO street lights and it was pitch dark. I would have to turn on the porch light so we could see. So I went to get some of the lights that you stick in the ground to keep you from stumbling in the dark or fall off into the ditch. I asked one of the sales clerk for assistance because I had no idea how to use them. I asked him what kind of batteries do you use when they go out and he said that they are solar so they charge in the light during the day. It is amazing that we know that night is coming, but what do we do to prepare for it? We get comfortable and relaxed in the day time when things are well that we don’t take the time to build up our strength through fasting, through prayer and reading God’s word that when night comes we are still stumbling in the dark. I put the lights in the ground right before it was getting dark and I noticed how they started flickering one at a time until it was strong enough to stand on its own and it would shine bright. When I would drive around the corner and though the lights were small because it’s light shinned bright I could see it a far off.#CLEANTHISHOUSE