Faith is the only way ....

I have been pondering a conversation I had with a friend last night. We were discussing our Patriarical blessings. We have some things in common ... we're both 40 something ... we're both single and we both wonder why ... alot!!!
I wish I knew all the answers ... it would make the lonely times easier to get through ... and trust me ... the lonely gets really loud sometimes! I have my moments, when the trials of single life surface like scum on the surface of aging soup ... (was that gross? ...good, that's what I was going for!)

Hebrews 11:1

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

I get through the rough times with faith ... I am so grateful to have been given such a wonderful cherished gift of faith. Don't get me wrong ... my faith is tested constantly ... but I have also been given the power to get through those tests. When I have those moments in my life when I am tried and tested and nothing seems fair I fall back on my favorite quote form Camelot, "Im wounded!" said Sir Launfal, "Wounded, but not slain. So I'll just lie and bleed awhile, then rise and fight again!" I bleed sometimes ... I cry ... I scream and throw a fit ... and then I move on! I don't understand the reason for all things but I have faith in all things andwhen I don't beleive, My Father helps me through that unbelief ... and I get through.

One thing I know for sure is that life is just a small moment ... a tiny pin dot in eternity and I know, deep in my soul, that everything I have ever been promised will come to pass as long as I am faithful. I don't think that it is too much for the Lord to ask of me ... to remain faithful, and to trust Him.

I think the easiest thing to do when we look at a part of our patriarical blessing that has never come to pass is to think ... "I must've done something wrong ... or I would have this in my life now! I think that that is exactly where the adversary wants us to be ...when our mind set is set on our personal failures, we are set on failing continually, and then he rejoices when he breaks our spirit. Well, he can't have my spirit!! Life is bigger than what we can actually see ... the rest we take on faith. So, with faith in every footstep I move forward and I know that when I am in thoes "poor me" moments, the Lord will see me through.