Faithful Friday's ~ He carried Me!

Wow! It sure has been a very long time since I have been here to post..... I am way sorry for the lapse in blogging. But I hope to soon be back on a regular basis!

But Something Lead me to be here today for Faithful Friday!

I have been in a big funk! It's not been one thing, it's been many. Way to many for this post tonight! I had lost myself in many many ways. But I have refocused and am doing so much better! God never left me, nor did he forsake me! He stayed right with us, through the valley! Every hill we had to climb he was right there!

As most of you know, I lost my mom going on 2 years ago. Will be 2 years at the end of Sept. I have had several reason that I didn't grieve, and it's just not at the point I am truly able to grieve. She was the GREATEST woman I have ever known, and a true example of a Proverbs 31 Woman. A dear dear friend, more like a sister, made me the most beautiful gift ever!

A beautiful quilt, it's made out of my momma's clothes! And it has  not been washed, so I can smell her! I know that God sent this at the very time he did, as it is the time I started to grieve and learn to function really again. And I had became a hoarder to things that I could find anyway at all to tie  to Momma. Like I may have bought it when her and I went to the store... Silly silly stuff. But I couldn't move on! Now I am moving on! 

We moved and I was sorting through some stuff that I display with a tribute to My sweet Momma, and I found this little book, a book I had given her years ago. But I have it back, after she passed a way. 

It's "Footprints ~ Scripture with Reflections Inspired by the Best Loved Poem"  Margaret Fishback Powers. This was my Momma's favorite poem,and I had given there this book for Easter 2000! 10 years before she passed away, and I found it this week, while unpacking, and I knew it was a message that I needed to hear. 

So I will share this part of the poem, it was a true testament to how I have felt lately, and something my Momma raised us to have full belief in! 

"I looked back at the footprints in the sand. There was only one set of footprints. I realized that this was at the lowest and saddest times of my life. This always botherd me, and I questioned the Lord about my dilema.  "Lord, you told me when I decided to follow you, You would walk and talk with me all the way. But I'm away that during this the most troublesome times of my life there is only one set of footprints. I just don't understand why, when I needed You most, You leave me."  He whispered, "My precioud child, I love you and will never leave you, never ever during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."" 

I have realized that in the darkest times that I have not grieved my Momma leaving me here, been beyond hurt and saddened that the baby didn't get to live with us, and that we have yet again faced work changes, a huge reaction to a medicine (that wrecked havoc in many ways, and feeling so very alone, I wasn't alone. My dear Lord carried me! Just like a baby, he held me and carried me to this point and I'm finally getting to a better place! Thank you, Jesus!

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See yall soon!!

Hugs and Blessings,