hold to what you have ...

I have always gone back to 2003. It was a powerful year where being stripped of a job and sitting in my apartment, I felt a need to move towards the control I did have like gratitude, affirmation, appreciation, contentment, declaring His Attributes, claiming victory, delighting and savoring. Everytime I felt out of control that was my signal to move to what I could control. This movement was the opening to the Joy invasion upon my life.

I have a lot of mental battles with myself. It is a huge pain. I actually love my brain a lot but I get beside myself with issues or actions I need to take that it takes me down. I don't like that especially when God has done some painful surgery on my heart with Joy. I was juggling this thought hold to what you have on Friday as I was struggling with an experience that was happening. I began to take stock of what I did have and then in the mist God changed things. It proved peaceful.

Say you would like something like an iPod or maybe there seems to be another goodbye you have to deal with or maybe you would like to be in a different place with your professional work. All of these things are wishes, some are needs, and others are plain and simple wants. You feel the frustration and the anger mount. Start quieting yourself with taking stock with what you do have. As you do, you will see how God has blessed you already. A peace will come. Maybe the decision to get an iPod will be a no in the long run, but what you had was a weekend to decide whether the oportunity was a deal or not and that maybe it will turn out to be given to you! Maybe another goodbye is another void, but what you do have and had all along was a very hello family and supporter of who you are and dream to be and time to really focus on yourself and develope the home you believe you are. Maybe wanting to be in a different place with your professional work needs some tweaking, but what you do have is creativity and time to get it perfected.

The biggest HAVE is seeing how God came with you on all decisions will show you that He is the Satisfier...