The Dreaded Question

I met a new client for my senior care provider job yesterday. She and her husband were warm and friendly. As she was showing me around their house and discussing what I would be doing, she asked the dreaded question, "when are you due?" Okay, now I have been battling this issue my entire life. Even when I was a skinny teenager, I still had a bump of a stomach. It is just the way God made me. It can be more pronounced with my posture and clothing and if you are viewing me from the side as she was. The last time this happened was in church a couple of years ago. I ended up crying silently beside the woman who asked the question no woman wants to hear when there isn't any possibility of it being true. But this time was different. I was able to handle it all with grace given to me by God to smile and shrug it off as nothing but a sweet lady that loves babies. It is a testimony to the power of the Holy Spirit and his work in me to see this progress in my response to this question that has plagued my life. It's okay because God made me this way and he loves every part of me, pot-bellied stomach and all.

365 Days of Praise Challenge-Day 342

Hobby Lobby is setting an example of standing up for our beliefs. Hobby Lobby is a Christian-based company and is fighting in congress against Obamacare and the fact that it requires companies to pay for insurance that will allow women to take the morning-after pill. This is an issue I am extremely passionate about. You can see my full testimony on my testimony tab here that will share with you my experience with abortions. Once a blind believer in the right for a women’s choice, I have learned the hard way that it is not our choice to make. A women’s right to choose is just a politically correct way of saying you can play God and decide that you don’t want the baby that has been created by God. It is time for all the women out there that have fallen victim to this right to choose culture who now know the real truth that God is God and that we have to except the blessing of the children that God gives us even if it doesn’t fit into our timing. Praise God for Hobby Lobby for taking the stand and prayers for all of us to follow suit and take a stand against this deceptive sin called the right to choose.

2 Corinthians 5:10 I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him.

365 Days of Praise Challenge-Day 320

Lord, I am singing your praises today for the miracle you have given us in the healing of Navah. This 4-year-old girl has been suffering with tumors up and down her spine for the last year or so. I recently got news that the cancer came back and even worse and that they didn’t think she had long to live. Yesterday, my co-worker who is friends with Navah’s family came rushing into see me at my desk saying “I just want to hug you”. She gave me the news that all of the tumors are gone! Lord we thank you for this miracle with this little girl. We pray that she will continue to live and thrive and that her story will be a testimony to how mighty you are.

1Corinthians 6:14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.

 

365 Days of Praise Challenge-Day 287

As I was heading to my second interview yesterday, I was not feeling so good. I was feeling naseua for about that last couple hours thanks to hormones. Ugh. So, as I walked into the church for my second interview I said a quick prayer for the right words, to be able to focus on giving the answer and not ramble and for my stomach to calm down. God is so good. I left my second interview feeling much better about what I said, how I said it and how I came across. At the end, they asked if there were any questions they didn't ask that I wanted to bring up. My gut told me to speak up about my commitment to Christ and how I came to know him. So, I ended up telling them my testimony. One of the ladies commented on how powerful a testimony it is. I look to my left where the HR guy is sitting and he is in tears. Wow! So, I think maybe I left there making an impression and hopefully it was a good one. If you haven't heard or read my testimony it is on my blog under My Testimony tab. The HR guy who has been involved in each of the 3 interviews so far commented that I was a new Janine. I said everything is the same inside that today it just came right. I was more confident, more comfortable, more at peace and just generally delighted and honored to be one of those final four candidates and my stomach naseua was gone. Thank you Lord for filling me up with all the right stuff!
Romans 10:10 “By believing from the heart, you obtain true righteousness; by confessing the faith with your lips you are saved”.