· A series of strange happenings or flukes? (Unlikely chance occurrence, esp. a surprising piece of luck). There are a lot of flukes in life. There is a false sense of security and people can be like robots at times, or like my dad’s airplane that he would put on automatic pilot. The automatic pilot was so the plane would fly itself so he did not have to keep his hands on the controls. It’s getting caught up in a routine of life to make it through work, the kid's sporting events at school, and it seems like life is running us rather than we are running our lives.
Every time we get on an airplane, we are trusting in mechanical equipment (machines) to get us to our destination in life or that the maintenance men caught all the problems. I’ve had flight delays due to mechanicals problems at least 3 times. We are trusting in no pilot errors. There is this false sense of security in life. Are we more vulnerable than we think as human beings? If we are in an automobile, we are trusting for no human errors, no drunk drivers to hit us, and no major tire blow outs. One time I had a major tire blow out right when I was passing a semi-truck in my van with my whole family, it scared the bejeebies out of the semi-truck driver I was passing, and I had to keep a strong control over the steering wheel. There is a reason that Jesus said “lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, Matthew 6:13.”
We are not machines or robots, but machines break down. We cry, feel pain, we bleed, we love, we hate, we fear, we have faith, we are brave, we are cowards, we sweat, we feel cold, hunger, we feel heat. We are human! My son compared us to "organic machines." Much of what we do, we do it for love for our family. It warns in the last days that some people will be void of feelings, and become more like robots in life. Sort of like the Cylons on Battlestar Galatica who appear to be human, but are driven by robot urges or the programming of this world: (Having lost all sensitivity (feeling), they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. Ephesians 4:19). I like the quote on "Pretty Woman" by Vivian where she says "I am a robot, I just do it." Many of us, don't like getting caught up in the whole robot scene of life, but we want more than the Nike "Just Do It," and we like more to a relationship than lust.
I’ve been a robot many times in life in catering to the demands of others. I had anxiety about going to New York City this last weekend and flying by myself, because it was through Chicago and back through Baltimore on standby. I prayed about that anxiety and the trip went very smoothly. I can trust my basic instincts in life, but other times I can’t. Our life is a delicate vapor and it needs to be handled with prayer. If I could have one Mulligan in life (a do-over) like a golf game it would be taking one situation to more prayer before the tragedy happened. (And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. Ephesians 6:18). Some events in life are like a bus. Once the wheel of the bus is in motion unless you are Superman, you can't stop the bus. Stage 4 cancer or a massive heart attack (the widow maker) are two of them.
I’ve had certain attacks on my life and many of them have been in my car and my greatest inspirations have been in my car on small and long road trips and in traveling on an airplane. (Some trust in chariots (automobiles) and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. Psalm 20:7)
I have a male friend who lost his wife to hepatitis 23 years after his daughter was born since she had a blood transfusion back when his daughter was born. It did not show up until 23 years later. He told me it was a fluke. A lady across the street where I live whose husband was very healthy at age 60 developed flu-like symptoms was told he had leukemia of the blood and died within three days. My brother-in-law had a relative who was struck by lightning. My counselor told me about a man who choked on the end of a banana peel in the hospital cafeteria and died and no one did CPR on him. One of the “neat" flukes with my husband’s asthma is that his conviction was it kept him out of Vietnam, but that the asthma may kill him eventually. I have the same conviction that the asthma kept him out of Vietnam which allowed him to have children and meet me in the first place, but I believe his chronic asthma stressed his heart.
We don’t see the whole football field of life or into much of the spiritual world, but Jesus does: (Jesus said I am Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Revelation 22:13).
Some people think we are not to bother God with small details of our life, but I found God is a very detailed-oriented entity who even counts the hairs on my head. Sort of like people who detail our car, I can take every small thing to Him. I found an earring I liked that had been missing for three years by the lamp post of my house. I felt the overwhelming presence of God that He cared about me finding my earring. "What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!
I thought about the scripture a lot when I lost my husband, about life being a vapor. I've spoken to many widows who never quit loving their husband when he passed away and it has been 20 years. It shows that true love transcends the grave. Our love was not dead when he died. The more I was single as a divorced person, the more I appreciated my freedom in being single. The longer I'm single as a widow, the more I appreciate I was in a love relationship. I appreciate that love endures even death. Love surpasses the grave. (Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. James 4:14)
I went to see the Statue of Liberty by myself since my daughter did not want to go, and it used to bother me seeing couples together. Before, I left my destination of NYC, I stopped at a gift shop walking out and my eyes directly landed on "Mike" my husband's name out of all the hundreds of names on gift shop items, but this time it was not sorrowful. It's taken me four years to get to that point. I still go through moments of depression in missing my husband like Jacob's hip injury in the Bible, where I continually have to reach out to God in remembering my dependence on Him for my healing. I know my husband had a hole in his heart for 23 years from losing a child. Paul had a thorn in his flesh. We are in a state of continual dependence on God and the false sense of security left us.
“God appeared to Jacob as a man and wrestling with him. Why did He wrestle with Jacob? Because God wanted Jacob to recognize his weakness before Him. God wanted Jacob to know that all true strength and wisdom comes from God alone! God had wonderful plans for Jacob, but God's best blessings can only come to those who know that they cannot please God in their own strength. Jacob was beginning to realize just how weak he was before God. On that night, God gave Jacob a new name, that is, Israel. Jacob means one who deceives. But Israel means one who reigns with God. The twelve sons of Jacob that the nation of Israel arose. And it is through the people of Israel that the Redeemer came into the world."
We have a new name through Christ and we have been given a new nature that pleases Him. (Rev 2:17 & 2 Cor. 5:17). I’m not flying standby for eternity; I know my “Final Destination” and I've got my ticket in my heart. Not based on what I've done, but what Jesus did for me. The first flight was full so I had to take a later flight and talked to a young woman on the airplane in college who wants me to add her to my blogs. (Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philip 4:6). In our weaknesses, Christ appears stronger. Let the weak say I am strong because of what the Lord has done. (Joel 3:10, 2 Cor. 12:9-11)
Every time we get on an airplane, we are trusting in mechanical equipment (machines) to get us to our destination in life or that the maintenance men caught all the problems. I’ve had flight delays due to mechanicals problems at least 3 times. We are trusting in no pilot errors. There is this false sense of security in life. Are we more vulnerable than we think as human beings? If we are in an automobile, we are trusting for no human errors, no drunk drivers to hit us, and no major tire blow outs. One time I had a major tire blow out right when I was passing a semi-truck in my van with my whole family, it scared the bejeebies out of the semi-truck driver I was passing, and I had to keep a strong control over the steering wheel. There is a reason that Jesus said “lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, Matthew 6:13.”
We are not machines or robots, but machines break down. We cry, feel pain, we bleed, we love, we hate, we fear, we have faith, we are brave, we are cowards, we sweat, we feel cold, hunger, we feel heat. We are human! My son compared us to "organic machines." Much of what we do, we do it for love for our family. It warns in the last days that some people will be void of feelings, and become more like robots in life. Sort of like the Cylons on Battlestar Galatica who appear to be human, but are driven by robot urges or the programming of this world: (Having lost all sensitivity (feeling), they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. Ephesians 4:19). I like the quote on "Pretty Woman" by Vivian where she says "I am a robot, I just do it." Many of us, don't like getting caught up in the whole robot scene of life, but we want more than the Nike "Just Do It," and we like more to a relationship than lust.
I’ve been a robot many times in life in catering to the demands of others. I had anxiety about going to New York City this last weekend and flying by myself, because it was through Chicago and back through Baltimore on standby. I prayed about that anxiety and the trip went very smoothly. I can trust my basic instincts in life, but other times I can’t. Our life is a delicate vapor and it needs to be handled with prayer. If I could have one Mulligan in life (a do-over) like a golf game it would be taking one situation to more prayer before the tragedy happened. (And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. Ephesians 6:18). Some events in life are like a bus. Once the wheel of the bus is in motion unless you are Superman, you can't stop the bus. Stage 4 cancer or a massive heart attack (the widow maker) are two of them.
I’ve had certain attacks on my life and many of them have been in my car and my greatest inspirations have been in my car on small and long road trips and in traveling on an airplane. (Some trust in chariots (automobiles) and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. Psalm 20:7)
I have a male friend who lost his wife to hepatitis 23 years after his daughter was born since she had a blood transfusion back when his daughter was born. It did not show up until 23 years later. He told me it was a fluke. A lady across the street where I live whose husband was very healthy at age 60 developed flu-like symptoms was told he had leukemia of the blood and died within three days. My brother-in-law had a relative who was struck by lightning. My counselor told me about a man who choked on the end of a banana peel in the hospital cafeteria and died and no one did CPR on him. One of the “neat" flukes with my husband’s asthma is that his conviction was it kept him out of Vietnam, but that the asthma may kill him eventually. I have the same conviction that the asthma kept him out of Vietnam which allowed him to have children and meet me in the first place, but I believe his chronic asthma stressed his heart.
We don’t see the whole football field of life or into much of the spiritual world, but Jesus does: (Jesus said I am Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Revelation 22:13).
Some people think we are not to bother God with small details of our life, but I found God is a very detailed-oriented entity who even counts the hairs on my head. Sort of like people who detail our car, I can take every small thing to Him. I found an earring I liked that had been missing for three years by the lamp post of my house. I felt the overwhelming presence of God that He cared about me finding my earring. "What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!
I thought about the scripture a lot when I lost my husband, about life being a vapor. I've spoken to many widows who never quit loving their husband when he passed away and it has been 20 years. It shows that true love transcends the grave. Our love was not dead when he died. The more I was single as a divorced person, the more I appreciated my freedom in being single. The longer I'm single as a widow, the more I appreciate I was in a love relationship. I appreciate that love endures even death. Love surpasses the grave. (Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. James 4:14)
I went to see the Statue of Liberty by myself since my daughter did not want to go, and it used to bother me seeing couples together. Before, I left my destination of NYC, I stopped at a gift shop walking out and my eyes directly landed on "Mike" my husband's name out of all the hundreds of names on gift shop items, but this time it was not sorrowful. It's taken me four years to get to that point. I still go through moments of depression in missing my husband like Jacob's hip injury in the Bible, where I continually have to reach out to God in remembering my dependence on Him for my healing. I know my husband had a hole in his heart for 23 years from losing a child. Paul had a thorn in his flesh. We are in a state of continual dependence on God and the false sense of security left us.
“God appeared to Jacob as a man and wrestling with him. Why did He wrestle with Jacob? Because God wanted Jacob to recognize his weakness before Him. God wanted Jacob to know that all true strength and wisdom comes from God alone! God had wonderful plans for Jacob, but God's best blessings can only come to those who know that they cannot please God in their own strength. Jacob was beginning to realize just how weak he was before God. On that night, God gave Jacob a new name, that is, Israel. Jacob means one who deceives. But Israel means one who reigns with God. The twelve sons of Jacob that the nation of Israel arose. And it is through the people of Israel that the Redeemer came into the world."
We have a new name through Christ and we have been given a new nature that pleases Him. (Rev 2:17 & 2 Cor. 5:17). I’m not flying standby for eternity; I know my “Final Destination” and I've got my ticket in my heart. Not based on what I've done, but what Jesus did for me. The first flight was full so I had to take a later flight and talked to a young woman on the airplane in college who wants me to add her to my blogs. (Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philip 4:6). In our weaknesses, Christ appears stronger. Let the weak say I am strong because of what the Lord has done. (Joel 3:10, 2 Cor. 12:9-11)
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