Cast ALL Your Cares on Him, For He Cares For You

I really thought I was doing a good job of letting go, and letting God. Today in my Bible Study I had to rate my level of worry on certain things. 1 being the least of my worries, 5 being "I worry about that often." Finances, Weight, Career, Parenting, Ability to Succeed, and My Future took the gold for my worries. What??? I thought I was doing good giving my day to God!

Peace characterizes the person who trusts God! Worry and exhaustion will take over and characterize the one who seeks to control and manipulate circumstances. Hmmm.....so why have I been so exhausted lately??? There's my answer!

"And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith? So don't worry about these things, saying 'What will we eat? What will we drink? what will we wear?' These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs." (Matt. 6:30-32 NLT)

George Muller said, "The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith. The beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety."

I think its time I really lay my worries down at the feet of my Savior. That's what he wants. How could I have become so greedy with my worries when He has been there all along with His arms open wide, waiting for me to cast my cares on Him.

He is the first and the last. I need to give Him my in between. I am going to stop just singing songs about trusting Him and live like God is my source and sustainer. No more thinking that surely God has mistaken my abilities with someone else that can handle these tasks more efficiently.

Fabulous Fall

We started a fresh school year and time has been flying! I have an 8th grader, a 5th grader and a Pre-Ker. Life is busy and fun! Kate is still playing the fiddle and the saxaphone in band. She works hard in her Pre AP classes. Living with a teenager has given me a new spin on life. I just pray daily for guidance. She loves me like crazy one second and the next she can't stand the sight of me. I love her sincere happy smile, when she laughs she has an undescribable beauty about her.

Macy is crazy about Science and animals. She's totally captivated by The Hunger Game books and is counting down months until the movie. She reads book after book. She loves fiction and non fiction. Her dry sense of humor and prankster ways keep the laughs going in our house. Her big loud belly laugh is still contagious and beautiful. Shhhh don't tell her I said so. She doesn't want to be beautiful. That's too girlie. :)

Alyse is interested in anything right now that involves getting dirty. Her fingernails have to be scrubbed nightly from all the grime underneath. She digs for treasures to bring in that most the time end up in the washing machine. All rocks are dinosaur eggs, all pokey, sticker like objects are sure to be part of a porcupine. She wanted to be in basketball and ballet at school. We made her choose one. She's now our little ballerina. Recently, Tadd, Kate, and Macy were roping one evening in the front yard. She truly believed her daddy could rope the moon for her. She LOVES God and given the chance, she'll tell you all about Him.

We are so blessed. "When I see who He is, I realize what I am. And I wonder why a Holy God would ever reach down so far and place me in HIS hands. My ears had heard the story. Now my eyes have seen His Glory. And I can't turn away from His GRACE. 'Cause I'm incredibly, miraculously SAVED."