Fake or real…You can’t take it with you.

 

Matthew 25:21  His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master!’

As soon as I put my fingers to the keyboard to type this long overdue blog.  My daughter came in.  I don’t care what anyone says I’m 100% sure your children can sense telepathically when you are about to be focused and they enter…It’s a test LOL a test I often fail, this time I stayed true to the course, although I am sure I just agreed to candy for desert, just so I could get back to blogging.

My daughter did ask what I was going to write about.  I really didn’t know, I just felt moved to write.  Although her interruption annoying and distracting, there was surely some divine intervention involved as well, as she recommended “You should write about your goals for 2018!”  Then pranced off to get candy.  She’s right

2018 for me came fast, it came with relationship changes living changes job changes…lots of changes.  All the changes were great, but my goodness even good changes can be stressful.  All changes come with a new blue print that you have to revisit.  

Fake or real was the title before I knew where this was going…I was going to tell you about a treasure that was presented as real, but through pressing and stressing (there was a hammer involved) it was found to be fake. 

Enter God’s peace that surpasses all understanding.  I was angry and pitiful for a few seconds then I reflected on all that God had brought me through.  While I look at the twisted metal worth nothing on the floor, I couldn’t help but chuckle.  Although this worldly thing was fake, the lessons I learned that it symbolized were real.  The love that was poured over me like a waterfall of diamonds was real.  The kindness that swept through my life from strangers and friends was like a pure ribbon of gold.

The silver lining of the twisted metal was that God’s love, favor, direction and wisdom is real and shines bright throughout the ever ending descending and ascending spiral of my life.  And my Goal/Gold for 2018 is in the end to hear “Well done Nene, my sweet and faithful servant, well done!”

My point 2018 comes with brand new mercies, don’t get them dirty with old dust.  Point two in the words of a very fine woman, “pick out your own treasure”.