Ants In My Pants!
Okay...not really...but close!
One of the things that thrives in the Topics is BUGS! We have been fighting little tiny ants in our home for months. We have asked Trini's what to do and we have gotten some ideas from them, but to no avail...the ants have taken over. Sometimes we can find a trail and see where they are coming in and deal with it...for awhile(sigh), but they find another entrance eventually. The truth be told, they are not invading our space, but we are invading their territory. They were here first:)
I have little tiny (almost hard to see) ants crawling on me when I am sitting, standing, sleeping, eating and well...you can fill in the blanks, if other ideas come to your mind.
I am certain I have ingested and inhaled a number of them. Ashleigh (my daughter) woke up one morning with one crawling in her eye!
Ants In My Pants...well...actually...MAYBE!
I haven't written for awhile...some may say writers block...I say "stuck". I am not sure what to call what I have been going through (not really quite out of it) but I have felt all plugged up. Maybe there is such a thing as Spiritual constitpation:) Women will often say, they are emotional and don't really know why. I think that is part of it. So much change has come to me in the last three years, that I think it caught up with me and put me in "weary mode" for awhile. My level of pain in my right hip dosen't help...it's just always there and some days I don't handle it as well. I don't discount Spiritual forces either. I know that what we are doing here in Trinidad is the last thing that the enemy of our souls wants, and he likes to throw fits, reek havoc, annoy and disrupt.
I do know this...as a believer...a daughter of the King...I can last on what I know to be true until feelings come, I can seek my God even when I don't feel His presence, read His Word even when I don't see the answers I am looking for. I am His on the bad, ugly days. I am His on the dark days that beg for understanding. He sees me when no one else does. He smiles at me and appreciates me when no one else does. He waits for me...
We can't afford to play "catch up Christianity". We must put God's Word in our hearts everyday, talk to God everyday...because you don't know when "hard" will hit. Sometimes, "hard" stays around for awhile. I know this...God gets it...and thank you God...you get ME!
I totally understand your ants problem. Just yesterday I was telling Nick that I am completely fed up with the ants everywhere and they just won't go away. If I find a way to deal with it I'll let you know.
ReplyDeleteYou know, as young as I am and as 'young' in the faith as I am, I understand the weary mode. Sometimes it seems like we don't get a break before something else hits. But I am encouraged by your words "I can last on what I know to be true until feelings come, I can seek my God even when I don't feel His presence, read His Word even when I don't see the answers I am looking for". That's exactly what we have to do especially in the dark and difficult places.
So I have made up my mind in the many dark and difficult trials I may face to praise, pray and study the word of God because it is He who has sustained me, will sustain me and will continue to sustain me in every phase of life.
I'm keeping you, Pastor Mike and Ashleigh in my prayers.
Dana
Dana,
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading! I am glad us girls are in this journey together. I know Jesus smiles on us as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling!
Love ya,
Sis. Pam
Pam, you mean that in three years this will all catch up with me in all this change? ;-)
ReplyDeleteI understand the aches/pains/emotions and have been claiming healing and taking authority and praising/thanking Him before the answers come. May I encourage you from Exodus 33. When Moses had his "Face to Face" with God, God gave him wonderful Promises: Provide, Protection, Peace, Presence, He's your Personal God; He knows you by name! Moses said, Lord, show me Your Glory! May you experience His Glory today, in Jesus' Name! I pray ministry of healing, too! Keeping in touch from a distance, Barbara
Thank you Barb! I will spend some time in that chapter:) Yes...we are transition buddies! It seems that God really isn't done with us until we take our last breath...No retiring from serving Him!
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Pam