Monday September 19 2016  I CRIED SOME TEARS

Crying in front of people is not what I like to do.  And crying alone is even worse.  Actually I just don’t like to cry.  It is messy, causes my eyes to get red and puffy, and plugs up my nose.  Well, today I had no choice.  It’s one thing when tears swell up in your eyes and spill slowly down your cheeks.  It’s quite another when they come by the bucketful and you can’t stop them no matter hard you try.  Well, for me it was the later.

Today was a turning point for me.  There was so much build-up of garden produce in my refrigerator and I had to do something to make some of it disappear.  I did part of the job on Saturday by making a huge pot of soup.  Dave did a lot of the prep work for me and all went well.  Today another pot of soup was on the agenda but Dave wasn’t.  So I had to peel lots and lots of onions, all kinds, and all were SMALL!  And these were powerful onions!  My tears started and I could not stop them.  I peeled and peeled and peeled and I cried and cried and cried.  I cannot remember my eyes ever burning so.  The really bad part was that even after I finished I couldn’t stop crying.  Oh, by the way, the soup turned out excellent!

My refrigerator looks better (most of the soup is already in the freezer), though it is still overcrowded it is manageable.  Another box of food comes Thursday.  Maybe I should buy my onions from the store bins because they do not make my eyes burn as much as all these odd little onions did that came fresh from the garden.  But, they sure are good tasting onions.  Actually it is so unbelievable how much better everything tastes because of it being so fresh.

Once the onions were sauteed and in the pot the tears stopped.  And life sometimes happens the same way.  At times there are things we must go through, suffer through, and cry tears as well.  Yet, once we get past the hard part, and look at the bigger picture of the “recipe of our life”, we can look back and see that those tears were necessary and ended up being a good thing.  Just like I talked about in the Friday September 16^th blog regarding the tears I shed over a lost love, I had no choice but to cry because of the sorrow I felt.  I eventually stopped, and later when I looked back I could see how needed it was for me to do what I did in order to allow my recipe for life to blend into the future that God had waiting for me.  Though breaking up with the man I loved was difficult God had something (SOMEONE) even better waiting for me.  Was it fun to peel those onions?  A great resounding NO; but it sure was necessary to make that recipe taste so good.

When you are in a sorrowful time, go ahead and cry.  And then pray and put your life in God’s hands.  Pick yourself up and dust yourself off.  God will supply the strength you need.  And when you go forward, do so with your hand in God’s hand.  He has a plan for you and it is good.

Philippians 1:6 

^” being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;”

WE HAVE A LOVING GOD

By Kathleen Martens

September 19, 2016

We have a loving God

Who keeps us in His sight.

Regardless how precarious,

Or the chaos our soul fights.

When we are discouraged

And sometimes tearfully sad,

It is okay to cry out to God

For He makes good from the bad.

Cast your cares upon Him,

Because He really cares for you.

Forever yield to His presence

And He will get you through.

Lord, thank You for ALWAYS being available.

Lord thank You for sending Your Comforter to be with me at all times.

Thank You Father for hearing my prayers.

Thank You for Your ever watchful eye.

GOOD NIGHT AND GOD BLESS YOU.

P.S.  Be sure and scroll down and check out some of the soup I made today.  It was worth the tears!