Exhale
Five Minute Fridays begin a little earlier now for all the eager ones, like myself! The prompt word is posted at 10 p.m. on Thursday nights to allow us to get a head start. This week’s word is: EXHALE
Ready?
Set?
GO!
Confusion and chaos has been our life for months on end now. We have struggled, cried, prayed, begged, and pleaded with God, and each other. Relying on our own strength has not gotten us very far at all. It has never been more evident that our source of strength should come from God above … our strength should be in the Lord.
We have held our breath as we’ve tried to do this alone. At times we have felt like we would surely die, the pain was so great. We have been disillusioned, believing the lies of the devil. He would like nothing more than to destroy our lives, our marriage, our family. He whispers the most awful things, and we believe the king of lies, deceit and betrayal. He wreaks havoc on us while throwing his head back laughing as evilness flows from his forked tongue. We fall on our knees, face down, sobbing uncontrollably as he digs his pitch fork into our hearts. Then God steps in front of us and shields us from a fatal blow to our hearts. He extends His arms wide, like when He was on the cross, as He says, “These are MY children, and you will NOT hurt them any more!” He stares the devil right in the eyes, and evilness has no choice but to slither back to where it came from. Our Father has protected us once more, sheltering us with His love, shielding us with His strength, arming us with the power to go on.
And so, we do, as we slowly exhale all of the pain, the heartache, the overwhelming hurt that has been our companion for way too long now. We exhale the sorrow, shedding the old ways we’ve been living and inhale His power, His strength, His love. We feel His hand upon our lives even stronger now than before, and we know that we are going to be okay.
If God is for us, who could be against us?
STOP!
Why do we hug?
I came across this video today called “Why Do We Hug?”:
http://youtu.be/HfIh-8tt3Wo?t=3s
What it tries to accomplish is to explain with a scientific viewpoint why we hug. I think there are some things that should not try to be explained by science. This is one of them. To me the video misses one important point about why we hug; it feels good! I think there needs to be more hugging in the world.
Go out and hug someone. Do it often. A hug is one of the best free gifts you can give.
(( hug ))
~The Quiet Computer Guy
We Care Wednesday: The Compliment
I get picked on quite a bit at times. There is a certain person that shall remain nameless that loves to pick on me. Lately it has been at work because of the length my hair. What I find interesting is that it is very easy for someone to come up with a snide remark without having a clue as to what is going on.
I used to wear my hair long. It was the whole hard rock band thing. Plus I have been given the gift of nice hair. When I let it grow out it waves and curls naturally in addition to being thick and soft. But for the past ten years I have kept it shoulder length or shorter. As it has now gone several inches below my shoulders I am wearing it in a ponytail due to the heat of summer. This is what I am getting ribbed about at work. Mainly from the other guys that have less hair than I do at my advanced age.
What no one asked it why I all of a sudden changed and let it grow very long. I have a very special reason for doing this. As I have been told over and over my whole life that I have great hair, I wanted to do something with this gift I was given. My reason for letting it all hang out is that I am going to donate my hair to Locks of Love: www.locksoflove.org.
If you have never heard of them, they provide hair prosthetics to disadvantaged children under the age of 21 that are suffering hair loss from any type of disease or medical treatment. I went through the whole hair loss with my mom when she went through chemotherapy ten years ago before she passed away from the side effects of cancer treatments. And I lost my sister less than a year ago; again to cancer. If I can give this small token to help a child feel a little better about themselves while they fight for their health, then it will bring much joy to my heart.
Today’s RAK is something very simple; a compliment. Compliments are so easy to give. If I notice on of the women at work have changed their hair style I compliment them on it. A small compliment can bring someone a smile and make a difference in their day.
