A's Happiness Blogs

You are who God says you Are.    You know what I like about the Lord. He talks to us, and he lets us know what it is that he has for our lives. It could be something big, or it could be something small, but he will always let us know what he has for us.    But we always try to find a way to not be what God has call us to be or do what he has called us to do.    As I was sitting here, God reminded me of a scripture in Jeremiah, and I went back and read the first chapter of Jeremiah.    It opened with a conversation between the Lord and Jeremiah. See, Jeremiah thought that he could use the excuse of him being a child when God told him that he ordained him as a prophet.   But God had already let him know he knew who Jeremiah was even before he was born, and he could not use him being a child as an excuse.    Jeremiah 1: 7& 8 says  “But the Lord said unto me, Say not I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee...

Happy Mother's Day!   Today we celebrate mothers!! I cannot let this day pass with out celebrating the life my own mother, Miriam, or Ann as she liked to be called.  I could never post my feelings about my mom after she passed a way in 2022 until today.  It hurt too much, and I found myself getting sad.  My mother was a loving mother. She was truly an example of a Godly woman.  She took us to church every Sunday and she taught us about God. Whenever I had questions about life or the bible, I can remember sitting in her kitchen at the table she used to prep her meals and had a long talks with her. Sometimes we laughed and even cried.  She even took that time to encourage me to go further with my life. That's the type of mother she was. She always wanted us to do all we needed to do to better ourselves.  She was a mom who did not play about me or my siblings. She got on all four of us the same and she loved us all just the same. She even loved all eleven...

Find yourself a quiet place and just reflect. Think back on all you have gone through in your life.    How did you handle it? Did you feel alone? Did you feel like it was something that you could not handle on your own?   We all have had that feeling in our lives. We all have felt like we could not handle the situation that we were placed in. We even question why we were going through what we were going through.   We might have found ourselves saying “I cannot handle this. This is too much for me.” Or we may be finding ourselves questioning why things are happing.    But I am gaining the understanding as I grow older, that it is in our going through the things we do, it makes us grow stronger in the Lord.  Why, because we come to the understanding that God is there with us no matter what.    This is why I want you to be somewhere quiet and just think.     Think back on all you have gone through in your life. All the good things and ...

We all have seen someone they say that they are Christian and that they love the Lord. They say they go to church, and talk about how much they love the Lord. But if you be around them long enough, you see that they don’t live what they are talking about. More than likely, it’s the way they interact with others, or even how they speak that gives them away. And we look at that person and start questioning them about their walk with God.  Now they say that they walk with the Lord, but their actions don't show otherwise. And we are quick to say that their walk with God needs work.  But let’s take a good look at ourselves for a moment. Are we taking our walk with God seriously? It’s easy for us to look at others and have an opinion about how they act and  come to the conclusion that their walk with God is not where it needs to be.   But When are we going to look at ourselves and take inventory on our own lives? That is a valid question, because it is easy for us to ...

Scripture for the week:  

I am Something out of the Ordinary     Me and a friend of mine were having a conversation about different movies and TV shows that we have watched over the years. We talk about the different shows that we watch to give the other different ideas of what would be good to watch.   Well, I started naming some of the shows that I love to watch, and my friend got quiet.  I asked her what was wrong, and she started laughing and told me that one of the shows that I liked to watch, Stranger Things, was not something that I would normally watch.  She told me that she knew me and that I was not the type of person to watch Syfy shows. Which honestly, I don’t normally watch shows like that, but that is a great show for me.    But, when we got off the phone, I started thinking back on the conversation and how she stated it was out of the ordinary for me!   What! No one has ever said that to me before. But I had thought on how I have changed over the ...