A's Happiness Blogs

  I started attending a new church, and they have a daily bible reading guide. Each day has a different scripture to read as we are trying to read through the whole Bible.    As I was doing my bible reading for this morning, it has me in 1 Samuel. As I was reading the scripture, I was able to read something that I never had before.   In 1 Samuel Chapters 11-15, it shows two incidents that Saul, who was made king at the time, disobeyed what the Lord had told him to do. But the situation in chapter 15 is the one that got me.   “Thus, saith the Lord of host, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came from Egypt. Now go and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass” I Samuel 15:2 &3 (KJV)   So, the Lord told Samuel to tell Saul to go kill everything in Amalek. He wanted EVERYTHING destroyed. All the men, women, child...

  Just get started   I was talking to my good friend, I call him big bro, and we were talking about exercising.  He was telling me that he walks so many miles a day to get his exercise and I told him I needed to be like him. He said “ the key is to just get started”. I like that, it make since.  But why did God show me somthing in those few words. We often say that we want to do a work for God. But in the same breath, we make every excuse we can think of as to why we have not done it or even started the task that God has given us.  Just like us wanting to do something meaningful in our lives and we do it, we have to have that same attitude toward our walk with God.  2 Corinthians 5:7 : "For we walk by faith, not by sight" (KJV) We may not know where God is leading us. He may be taking us to a place where it is new territory for us. But if we just get up and START, who knows what blessing he has in store for us.  God bless.  If you need to contact ...

Life can be going great. You are happy and it seems like you find yourself on cloud nine.    And you find yourself having zill to do something for God, or God has giving you an assignment to complete, and you are up for the challenge. You want to do for God, because that is what he requires of us.    But then, it seems like everything starts going wrong in your life and the feeling you had is gone.      1 Peter 5:8 “ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeing whom he may devour”   It is funny how God brought this scripture to my mind.  When I wrote this blog, I was getting ready for a women’s program at my church, and I was getting my mind and my heart ready for it. It seemed like everything was coming my way to get my mind off what God had for me to do.  But I had to realize what was going on.  To give a better understanding, I had to look up the meaning of a few words.  ...

This is not one of my normal blogs. This is more of a testimonial.    See, over the past 8 months, my husband has been going through a few battles of his own.  ( I mentioned it in my last blog but I did not go into depth about it)  On August 25, 2023, my husband and my oldest son was hit head on by a drunk driver. Praise God they both made it out alive, but my husband’s left leg was injured.  My son just had a few scrapes and bruises, but he is ok.    So, I have watched my husband go through this season in his life.  I saw him laying on a hospital bed with his leg bleeding bad, and I saw him being whisked away into emergency surgery.    I saw him spend 50 days in the hospital, all the while thanking God and praising him for everything he was going through.    Even now, as I write this, he is back home from the hospital recovering from an above knee amputation of his left leg.  But in spite of everything, from the mont...

May 17, 2007 was my wedding day. And though parts of it were not a happy time, when I saw my husband standing at the alter waiting on me on that Thursday night, I was so happy. I was starting my life with this person that I dated for three years.   I was excited to start my journey as his wife, but I had no clue what I was getting my self into.   When I got married, I had this illusion of something I say in the movies. I thought it was going to be all fun and games. We were going to love each other, and we were going to have a happy life and we were not going to have to go through anything.     But that is a different topic for another time.  When we got married, we had to say our wedding vows in front of everyone in the church.     We stood and we said those vows proudly. In front of every one that was there and God, we said those vows.    But who take their wedding vows seriously?    For me, August 2023 those vows took o...

  Recently, a situation happened that left me at a loss for words. I was shocked when it was told to me, and I began to get sad. But as I was sitting in my car, I immediately went into prayer, because I knew that me being sad would not do a thing. I needed strength to get through what was going on.   As I went on about my day, I kept hearing the word “trust.”   Trust? Why was this word placed on my heart?   So, I went and looked up the meaning of trust.  The meaning of trust is “firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.”   “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths” (Proverbs 3:5&6)   Truly trust in the Lord it means that you have the firm belief In Gods ability to help us though out our lives and that Gods strength is way better than your own.    It was important for me to get to the point of ...

    "I will bless the Lord at all times: his praises shall continually be in my mouth" Psalms 34:1     Do we praise the Lord like we should? or do we just go about our day like he has not done anything for us?   David said it prefect in Psalms 34. He says "I will bless the Lord at all times."   That means no matter what you are going though, you should always praise the Lord.   We may find ourselves in a storm with nowhere to go, and we feel all alone. But if we just start praising God, we will see how we start feeling.    God has done so much for us when we did not deserve it, we should always want to praise him and thank him for being there for us.    We should not just praise God for what he did for us, but for who God is to you personally.   That is what I had to learn, who God was to me?   See, we don't always look at praising God for who he is. Sometimes we think we just need to praise God for what he had done in our...

  For those who do not know, I am a Sunday school teacher at my church. I teach the kids 6 to 10 years old. I love teaching kids this age because it’s fun and they are very smart children.   They love to learn new things about the bible and they ask so many questions.      We have been discussing kindness in our Sunday school class and why it is so important to be kind to others. Not just others, but be kind to all kinds.    As I was thinking on my Sunday school lessons a question came to mind.    How much does it cost to be kind to others?    This is a valid question because we see so much hate in the world. People don’t like each other because of their skin color, or they don’t associate with a certain person because of their background.    Why is that?   Do they feel they have the right to mistreat people just because they are different?  Or do they feel like they are better than other people because of w...

  So, as I am sitting here at work, I had some down time and God placed on my heart James 1:22 which says “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” Now I have heard that scripture plenty of times in my life, but I never really dwelled on it.  Now before I go into my blog, if you have not read the book of James I suggest you read it. Now God has been dealing with me on a lot of things lately. But it was interesting that this particular blog I started writing last year.   But why did he bring me back to this blog?  I simply needed it at this moment.  As a Christian there needs to be an understanding about God's word. He wants us to study his words and know his words so we can apply his words to our lives so we can out  lives for him. How good is it that we read the manual on how to put something together, and we toss it aside and put it together like we want to?    It's not going to come out right. Same thing wi...