Showing posts with label a cuppa for Life's chaos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a cuppa for Life's chaos. Show all posts

Friday, May 29, 2026

EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE!

My morning "cuppa" is not on an African savanna but in my comfiest chair as I'm experiencing the words of author Robin Jones Gunn as she writes of travel to Africa. 
Her book, TEA WITH ELEPHANTS, reinforces lessons God wants to teach the "suitcase sisters" in this foreign land of tea fields, beautiful, graceful and gentle giraffes, along with rambunctious elephants.

Kind words are like honey--sweet for the would and healthy for the body, (Proverbs 16:24, NLT, Gunn, p. 132)

The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. (African proverb, Gunn, p. 225)

Don't let emotional baggage burden you.
Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you. (Psalm 55:22)
Leave it at the foot of the cross.

Monday, June 2, 2025

MESSY MONDAY!

LIFE IS MESSY!
Especially on Mondays. For Sundays to be serene, I must be still, quit striving and let go of emails and texts. Then when I awaken to a new day, portals need to be finished for tomorow's doc appointment, text and emails answered but my internet* is missing & that's messy!
Think, non-existent atop this mountain ridge. 
Unraveling comes to mind.
Before I had a complete "come apart",  I needed to have a cuppa sani-TEA and get back into the Psalms. All that's necessary is a Bible. 

Grateful I found notes I had taken yesterday---from Psalms 104 (BC FUMC) and Psalm 1 (FEC Memphis) 

Praises for reminders ---Reading aloud Psalm 104 3x and noting words/verses that "jumped off page" and into my heart! 
MEDITATION kept jumping!
May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the Lord.(Psalm 104:34)
Psalm 1 notes---Blessed (intensely happy and "gets it right"-- Pace)
is the man (a regular person, not  a king or scholar or man of note)
embracing these negatives of actions....
walks not in counsel of wicked...
stands not in the way of sinners....
sits not in the seat of scoffers ie scorners.... 
Yet, the positive stood out to me. 
but he delights in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night. (Psalm 1:2)
Think exercising your mind to dwell on a passage. Think deeply. Ponder. 

Meditation turned my "Messy Monday" into Meditation Monday."

*Internet back @ 1:03 pm EST