1 Year Blogging

 


On November 18, 2016 I had been thinking I can hardly believe that’s it’s already been one year since I started this blog.  The idea came to me while I was going for a run a year ago.  It’s pretty cool how God can meet us in so many different places.  While God was encouraging me through a hard run, He opened my heart to other things He had to say to me, such as writing a blog.

When I started Pearce the Heart I had a few post topics in mind such as the different things that I have struggled with.  Later I found at times I didn’t know what to write about and I would wait and listen to see what God wanted me to write.  It turned out that quite frequently it was those posts people responded to the most.  I think it’s likely because He knew that’s what they needed to hear.

I went for a walk with my husband this past Thursday and was amazed how it could be so warm in the middle of November.  I really loved seeing all the trees around the park we walked through as well as listening to the crunching sound of the leaves underneath our feet.  Our destination was the lake, and it was so beautiful at that time of day, as the sun shimmered on the water.  All this beauty helped me to see and feel God’s presence all around us.

As we stood on the sand near the lake my hubby reminded me that it’s a daily choice to trust God and have faith in what He does for us.  That made me think about some of my previous posts that I wrote.  Some of the ones I wrote were about love, forgiveness, and seeing the beauty of myself inside and out, I believed them to be true, but as the time went by I found I had fallen back to putting myself down about those things.

Taking in what I learned when I was at the lake helped me to realize that I needed to make a decision to love myself and trust Him daily.  If you tell yourself that you made the decision to forgive someone a year ago and then forgot about it, then often the forgiveness is a temporary thing.  When you decide to forgive or love someone everyday then it becomes a constant value inside of you.

I know it’s not always easy to make the same decisions daily if you aren’t use to it, but I find the more you do something the easier it gets.  I know I’m not perfect and most people aren’t, but I’m glad that even as I start to feel down about that idea, God encourages me to see that with Him I can do better than I thought I could.

I wanted to thank everyone that has read my blog and for being such an encouragement as I shared my thoughts and beliefs.  I also hope that you continue to be encouraged by Him in your life.

Patricia <3 J

John 6:37     All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

 

Here’s a song about difficult and trouble times, and there may have been some joys and some regrets, but our Lord has been our God through it all.  Even when we are blinded by our fears, and even through those unclear moments that He’s kept us strong through those difficult times.

“Through All of It” by Colton Dixon
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRw9pXyYiOI&list=PL3whQX319DaB37iB8NZpJe206iSdpe3kc&index=162

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