Heeded Words

You set your thermostat between 65-68 to reduce your heating bill You give up going barefoot to 2 layers of socks and fuzzy houseshoes You know that getting together means the whole family 30-50 is coming over! Every event involves southern, mouth watering foods - OK rates in the bottom 3% for health Stopping to help when you are in a car accident or broken down is NORMAL Dripping water faucets is a must during freezing days Tomorrow the weather will be warmer (or colder) - never the same The sun will always shine (even while snowing) Football is not just a game Having a truck makes you a man *Oklahoma rates #1 out of 50 states with the least women who have never married - ladies you have a chance!! Hey, I have a chance!!!

Words have not come easy for me lately. Sometimes I think I have opened myself up, searched within, torn away the struggles so much that what is left to say? Even with others, do we not have an ulterior motive when we seek to commune with them? Perhaps I have fought to break through for so long, that existing and abiding in peace is a new thing for me. NO I don't think it is being in " lala"  land, I do abide in the present. However if I know that I can no longer change those around me nor have walls to break through (per say) then what is left to motivate me forward or maybe its inward. It is this exact place that I find myself with God. A couple of prophetic words that were given me a few years ago bring me to this very position: Elise, I want you to know, He has called you to be a worshiper of Him. To seek His face, just to rest in Him and to abide in Him. Not to be afraid of what other people think. Be drawn away, drawn into His presence, in the quietness, in th