Ivy

has gold in her pocket.

Just

looked at my theknot.com profile.
My former wedding date was August 2009.

Lol.

Silly girl, tricks are for kids.

Godly Sorrow

I'm realizing more and more everyday that grace that God bestows upon me.  I remember the times that I have lived foolishly, taking advantage of His grace and mercy, and then He pulls me right back to where He wants me.

What a wonderful God He is.

2Co 7:9  Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us. 

2Co 7:10  For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted, but the grief of the world works out death. 

2Co 7:11  For behold this same thing (you being grieved according to God); how much it worked out earnestness in you; but also defense; but also indignation; but also fear; but also desire; but also zeal; but also vengeance! In everything you approved yourselves to be clear in the matter. 

The sorrow I have in my heart is godly; though I grieve, it is only for a moment, because He has brought me to repentance, turning my face and heart towards Him.

What a wonderful God He is!!!

Psalm 103:3-4 says, "If You, Lord, would mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared."  It continues on in verse 8, saying that He is slow to anger, and He does not deal with us according to our sin, but throws them as far as the east is from the west. 

God's love is so great, so wonderful, that He disciplines me as a father disciplines His child (Heb. 12:7-10). 

As I look at the consequences I face each day for one sin or the other, I gratefully take them. 

I am becoming a woman and God no longer whispers my foolishness to my father, but disciplines me Himself.  

How I wish I could take a two weeks grounding and get it over with!

But it is His Love that disciplines me...

What a wonderful God He is!!!!!!!

 

I Will Hope.

I will not hope in marriage.

I will not hope in children.

I will not hope in riches.

But I will hope in God for the grace to obtain these things.

Yes, this relationship/friendship may have failed time and time again;

but I cannot hope in it.  

"But this is not hope, and it was never a good idea. No! Hope is placed in God for whatever He will bring to us. We confess this because we know He loves us. The object of our hope is merely a function of our desire. It is proper, but must keep its place. Nothing but God is our right. He is our inheritance. We hope for a relationship with the understanding that it is through His grace that we shall be blessed. I don’t deserve a wife, but hope that grace will provide. We will speak another time of my part in the play. What I know is that short of grace no relationship is truly a blessing."

Hudson Russel Davis, The Distinction Between In and For Part 1