Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in
God! (Philippians 4:4a)
Some of you are aware that I’m going through a rough
time these days with my job and with my parents. The
combination of the two has left me feeling overly
vulnerable, emotional, and quite overwhelmed.
Today, I reread the above verse from this coming
Sunday’s NT reading. I looked up the word revel. I
mean, I know what it means contextually, I use the
word, but I wondered just what does it mean to revel
in God? Party Hearty in God? Well, yes, I suppose
that, too.
But if I plug the Mirriam Webster definition into that
verse it reads:
Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, take intense
pleasure or satisfaction in God!
Isn’t that a great concept?! All day, every day, take
intense pleasure and satisfaction in God!
What a great way to embrace the day… what a great
way to put the worries and the stress and the
pressures of hard jobs, illness, death, or problematic
homelifes to the side, to turn them over to the God
who is so present that we can take intense pleasure
and satisfaction in that Presence!
For me, to take that degree of pleasure and
satisfaction in God, I see myself enraptured, standing
emotionally naked before my Creator, bathed in the
warm… hot even… light of God’s enduring love, a
love so powerful, a love so intense, nothing, NOTHING,
can overcome it. A love so powerful that not even the
grave or death itself could even put a damper on it.
Wow, God! Thank you!
On The Road II 
Remember brother that each day we only have to work with 24 hours, however difficult that may sound, it may simplify your life to an extent. there comes a time when we are forced to realize that we are only human and that we are powerless over medical issues no matter how hard we insist we are.My father in laws mom is stage 3 alz’s. And you know we do the best we can, and remember that even though the body looses its ability to “remember” our memories live on for us. There is power in “Knowing” and having “faith,” illness and sickness is something I know alot about, and I can tell you that, even though you might feel overwhelmed, God only gives us what we can handle on a daily basis, as long as we turn over our days to the creator, and we do our best with what we have and can do.Hold Fast to that which you know and believe. Know that you are in my thoughts.Jeremy In the immortal words of Ms. Truvy..”That which does not kill us makes us stronger!”
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