my portion and my cup

Boy, the Fridays come quickly...and it's time for my weekly catch-up with the company girls.

Last Friday had me hurrying around on Good Friday, and this Friday finds me slowed way down--which also makes it a good Friday. {smile}  Not that I don't have a list of to dos--cause I do.  But I have hardly anything on the schedule and I can do everything at my own pace.

The week gone by was taxing due to watching my poor hubby suffer from back pain that sucked his breath away.  Easter was really, really bad for him.  Boo.  He has some degenerating disks in his back (apparently his back is quite a bit older that he is for some reason...) and the pain comes and goes.  When it comes and keeps coming, a pain shot is in order.  He had one on Monday morning.  We got quite discouraged when it didn't help that day, or the next (and my discouragement came through on my post Tuesday), but on Wednesday he was feeling a lot better.  We have been praying like crazy and still are...cause the doc says there is no cure, and this is his life now.  Double-triple-boo.

I finally feel like I've recovered from the Easter community event I led at church (it seemed to take a long while!) and am now feeling the energy to move forward and even dream a little at work.  Whew.  Needed to get back to this place in my head.

I read a good book this past week that was very encouraging.  I even posted a review of My Bangs Look Good and Other Lies I Tell Myself --a first for me.

We finished our Bible Study this week on the book of Esther (Beth Moore's study, have you done it??).  It was a really good study--all about the way God turns things around in our life, about destiny, about His providence, about Big-G-Good for sure.  After yesterday's closing study, I am reflecting once again on a favorite verse from the Psalms:

Seeing the circumstances that come into my life, the wonderful ones as well as the hard ones, as an assignment from God is a good perspective for me to focus on.  There are parts of my life I wish I could change, and I can get discouraged.  But they are my portion, my God-given assignment--and He has made me secure in the midst of it all.  I get to grab the handle of that cup with peace.

Beth Moore said this towards the end of the study, and I want to encourage you with it:

"No matter what life--or Satan Himself--hands us, the favor God has on His children cause that "lot" to tumble out on the table in such a way that, instead of destruction, the child will discover her portion turned into destiny one trusting step at a time.  When all is said and done, she will see that the portion God assigned her was good."  

Now, go embrace your assignment today one trusting step at a time.  I will too.