Survivor Mom

Do you need direction for your life? Slow down, turn aside, and listen to God. What He has to say is more important than anything else you’ll hear.

Take a look at the story of  Moses:

Moses was working his regular job as a shepherd when he saw a burning bush, just like the ones he’d seen a hundred times before. Only this time the bush was on fire with God’s presence. Moses said, ‘I must turn aside and look.’ In that moment everything depended on his willingness to interrupt his daily routine and make time for God. He could have said, ‘I’m busy,’ and kept on going. But he’d have missed his calling and the reason for his existence. He’d have missed knowing God and doing great things. But he didn’t, he ‘turned aside.’ God wanted to begin a new nation, with Moses leading it. The timing seemed strange. With God, it often does.

Forty years ago Moses was young, the product of the finest education system in the world. He had powerful connections and high hopes. But now he was a nobody, a lowly shepherd in a forgotten desert, rejected by his people and a fugitive on the run. “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?” Moses asked God. “Nobody knows me. I don’t speak too well. And my track record isn’t too good.” God said, ‘I know about your past, and it doesn’t matter. Your failure and inadequacies are no longer the ultimate truth about you. You are what you are, but you’re not yet what you will be; because I will be with you.’

This is a forwarded email, i thought of sharing it here with you..

HOW TO STAY YOUNG:

1. Try everything twice.
On one woman’s tombstone she said she wanted this epitaph:
“Tried everything twice.loved it both times!”

2. Keep only cheerful friends.
The grouches pull you down.
(Keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches!)

3. Keep learning:
Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever..
Never let the brain get idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’
And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s!

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud.
Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with HIM/HER.

6. The tears happen:
Endure, grieve, and move on.
The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves..
LIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love:
Whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies,whatever.
Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health:
If it is good, preserve it.
If it is unstable, improve it.
If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9.. Don’t take guilt trips.
Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

11. Forgive now those who made you cry. You might not get a second chance..