There is a quote I read in my devotionals today that said...
“Be more concerned with what God thinks about you than what people think about you”
And when I read it I knew I was going to have one of those days! Your valued to God as a Princess or Prince. Was up early drinking my coffee as usual. Cinnamon dark coffee + cinnamon creamer. (Yummy!)
And as I read about a story of a person mentioning one hour
is only 4% of a day I was interested in knowing more about it. It’s a story of
a woman putting more effort into prayer time by applying 4% of her time when
she heard someone talk about this subject. She was determined to try it! Kinda
reminds me of my recent 21 day blog challenge I was so determined to complete! Done!
Rather than trying to fit prayer into her schedule she
decided to “fix” a prayer time, and then “fit” the rest of her day around it.
Her kids were old enough to travel to school alone and by 8:30 a.m. each
morning her house was quiet as a mouse.
A hush fell over her home. She knew this was her best prayer time. To
guard antee she was uninterrupted, she made it knows to the ladies in her group
that except emergencies, she would be greatful if people didn’t call her until
after 9:00 a.m. in the morning.
To her surprise no one was offended instead they responded
very positively. Several other women began to follow her example by setting
aside the same hour to pray every day.
When we seek God’s plan first, all our plans with other people will have a way of falling into place.
And so I ask when we have
standards and confidence in ourselves by setting priorities as to what we have
time for and what we don’t…. people will respect us for it and therefore we
will be successful knowing it was a win/win.
This devotional helped me to understand my day even further.
I wasn’t expecting to have a breakthrough day but I did! Some reality checks
were hard to swallow however it was for the good. It’s difficult to notice anything bad turning good but you
must be able to discern this as that is when you become wise and follow your
“gut” and not what others think or believe you should do.
My day started out productive and started by setting
priorities. I may not have kids but sometimes it just feels that way. Being the
oldest child comes with responsibilities even after your 21 however little by
little step by step I’m releasing old responsibilities that I shouldn’t have.
Some may think it’s selfish but in reality it’s not. It’s selfish not to
self-care yourself.
So I had a family meeting and I’m laying down the cards on
the table. I will do this and that and
release this and that. It felt pretty good saying it as it was soo unexpected
of others to hear. What made me say this? Well, there comes a time when you
have to put yourself first and leave responsibilities to others. I have to
remind myself I’m not “Cammy” You know the cartoon character of streetfighter!
(video games) Yak!
And so after headed to the ER because I needed to get
checked what was up with my Gut! It’s been acting up for the past 3 days and
the pain persists and won’t go away. It just totally screwed me up. I was this
different person. A person lacking energy, yawning a lot, gaining weight. I
looked in the mirror and said “What is going on Laura?” This is not you! See we
all have intuition to discern when we are at our best and when we are not and I
sure haven’t been feeling great. And so I kick rocks! (literately)
I had several tests run on me such as a pregnancy test
(really?) they insisted and according to
the triage nurse. What revealed was the culprit of my laziness, weight gain and
pain was found in an ultra sound. It hurted as she rubbed my stomach with gel
and a computer handle joystick and said Crap! looking at the computer myself
and watch her take notes.
So, I have gallstones! 3 small ones that are still. Not
moving anywhere they are just sitting there however they can grow in size and
move around if I don’t care for my body and therefore a change of LIFESTYLE is
expected of me. The thought of becoming vegan came to mind as that is when I
was at my healthiest and my gut was regular, my skin was glowing, hair was
shiny and felt energized.
The fact of knowing you have rocks in your tummy is just so
wrong in many ways and not healthy. I’ve known lots of people that have had
these rocks removed successfully. In and out they are out of the hospital
however one sad case I also know of a surgery going totally wrong! My cousin’s
wife died and had a painful journey in the hospital due to being botched to
remove the rocks. I don’t even want to think of it as thoughts are things and
remaining positive about my outcome when I get surgery however need to do my
diligence and not go based on their advice. Apparently I should go to a county
hospital and get in line to see when surgeon is available. There is a waiting
list as they only do surgeries to people with big insurance companies well known
that will qualify them to use their hospital. This is why it's soo important to have really good insurance!
I've decided not to follow that advice and research a more experienced hospital with non med students performing surgeries even though it's not a big deal of a surgery but anything can go wrong and I'm not putting my body in the hands on non-experienced MD's.
For some reason though I was not feeling too comfortable
after I met several nurses and I wouldn’t want to stay overnight. One had an
opinion about my birth date and would I of been born an earlier day in March I
probably would have been treated very different and this is a catholic
hospital? Should I feel lucky I was a late march baby? The energy that day was soo off... thank God no surgery was performed I probably wouldn't be writing this blog! Whew!! I don’t know but that’s
the day I was born the day God breathed in me and blessed me with talents. It
was just soo unexpected to hear comments like Whew! Good thing you’re a late
one! One thing came to mind…. Weirdoooos!
And this is why I write this blog because it’s not what
people see you as when it comes who you are due to your birth date. I can go
more further on this subject as it goes really deep but I won’t. You can’t be
opinionated on someone’s birth date just because. Everyone is different and not
all the same based on birthdays.
So, I end this blog with the thought of listening to what God says about YOU not what others say because if you knew what God says you would be smiling like I am :) See, I know I am a child of God and he sees me as his precious princess just as any father would feel for his kid. When kids get hurt, in pain the father rescues the kid well the same goes to our heavenly father.
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