Transitions (Part 9…While the Dew is Still on the Roses)

April 20, 2010 at 2:37 pm (1, Assurance, Devotional Thoughts., Guidance, Homeschooling, Life, Lighter Burdens., Our Unchanging God, Patience, Relaxed Homeschooling, Sovereignty of God, Transitions ( Where I am, where I have been...the happenings of my life))

Scripture References;

O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.  Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.  You hem me in—behind and before;  you have laid your hand upon me.  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.  Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?  If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths,  you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to  me are your thoughts, O God!  How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. Psalm 139:1-18 NIV

I wrote this yesterday:

“Don’t you just love those mornings when the house is quiet and the coffee turns out just right, and you cuddle up and visit? And then I took a walk around the yard. I love this time of year. The mock orange shrubs are blooming, the hostas are already getting big and had little water droplets from the rain on them, and the rose buds are showing color and will be opening in a day or two…

…The tiger lilies are already 3 feet tall, the honeysuckle has been trimmed so it looks like a a beautiful green cloud at the base of my sweet gum tree. The thing that I am most excited about is the hydrangea shrubs. The  blue ones are already making flower heads. They are about the size of quarters: last week they were dime sized.  My hubby just poured me a refill of coffee, and the kitchen smells like sausage. Don’t you wish you were here?!    :-)”

Then I wrote this a few hours later:

“I took two PC tests today, got a 90% and a 95%; That finished up my computer literacy (It didn’t include WORD and EXCEL; that comes later)!  Now I am on a Job Readiness Skills part of the program that takes 10-15 hours to complete. So far it’s been all about…Resume Writing! Isn’t that funny?   ( I wrote an entry earlier where I had mentioned that I was working on a resume. It was in a series titled “Transitions”) I still have a way to go. Each time you do a set of skills you get a certificate. I am working toward an Employability Certificate. Then I will work on my Clerical Certificate, and the possibly a Banking Certificate after that.

We have had some new things that have come up that might affect my plans some, though.  My husband is planning on going back to college this fall!”

I will have to write more about that later.   We really don’t know what the future holds; neither the near or distant future, but the Lord has consistently cared for us so far, and the Bible teaches us that He will continue, that He is faithful. This makes me glad!  🙂

Below is a hymn that is on my mind.

I Know Who Holds Tomorrow

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      • Refrain
        Many things about tomorrow,
        I don’t seem to understand;
        But I know Who holds tomorrow,
        And I know Who holds my hand.

    I don’t know about tomorrow,
    I just live from day to day.
    I don’t borrow from it’s sunshine,
    For it’s skies may turn to gray.
    I don’t worry o’er the future,
    For I know what Jesus said,
    And today I’ll walk beside Him,
    For He knows what is ahead

  • . Ev’ry step is getting brighter,
    As the golden stairs I climb;
    Ev’ry burden’s getting lighter;
    Ev’ry cloud is silver lined.
    There the sun is always shining,
    There no tear will dim the eyes,
    At the ending of the rainbow,
    Where the mountains touch the sky.

    I don’t know about tomorrow,
    It may bring me poverty;
    But the One Who feeds the sparrow,
    Is the One Who stands by me.
    And the path that be my portion,
    May be through the flame or flood,
    But His presence goes before me,
    And I’m covered with His blood.

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