So Tell Me. Please - Answered

What do you do

 When you come home one day 

To find your heart is broken

Into so many pieces you can't even find them all

By someone(s) you never imagined would ever do such a thing? 

I don't know either.

I'll let you know tomorrow.

or 

The next day.

or

As soon as I figure it out.

Promise

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7/7/2012 My Answer (for now any - how)

So I said I would let ya'all know what you should do

When you come home one day 

To find your heart is broken

Into so many pieces you can't even find them all

By someone(s) you never imagined would ever do such a thing.

When I figured it out.

I haven't "exactly" figured it out per say 

HOWEVER

I did get some direction.

If you click here

It will take you to another blog post of mine. 

 The Lord is speaking to me about betrayal.

It is a "relative" feeling.

We (you, me, anyone) can feel as though no one else
  has ever felt the horror of our pain (what we are feeling at any given time) before.
Never experienced what we are going through - ever.

In a sense this can be and probably is very true in many cases.

However - When it comes to living through pain of betrayal of a loved one or loved ones.

This is something many can relate to.

Circumstances surrounding the betrayal may be different,

 but the excruciating , undeniable, unrelenting, pain is the same.

Today on my way to work the Lord asked me how I thought Joseph must have felt.

Yeah, you heard me right. Joseph from Biblical times.

Joseph youngest son of Jacob. (for a while) Beloved,  son of Jacob.

His older brothers, whom, he loved and looked up to, out of jealousy actually thought about killing him but one of his brothers Reuben talked the others into sparing his life. So instead they stripped Joseph of his garment and threw into a cistern and ended up selling him like a common slave.

Out of Jealousy.

They betrayed Joseph. They betrayed their Father.

In the hopes of getting rid of what was robbing them of attention.

It didn't work.

In stead God's hand was at work and though it was many years in the making

 it was God's Will that was accomplished.

Because Joseph belonged to God

He felt betrayal - insurmountable betrayal - still - Joseph over came betrayal with love for God.

There are many many more examples in the Bible

Jesus is the one example that I cling to above all.

So MY answer?

What do you do

 When you come home one day 

To find your heart is broken

Into so many pieces you can't even find them all

By someone(s) you never imagined would ever do such a thing?

Fall down upon the lap of the Lord.

Trust - in His unfailing Love 

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Sunday July 8,2012
Continued my reading in 1 Samuel
Through the life of young (King) David - WOW, how many times have I read this portion of scripture!
Many! I can say that! Just so happens this is where I am right now in my reading and also where I am in life!

Of course this will have to wait for another Blog Post!
Blessings!

The Green Thing

An Old Note I Found - 

In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.  

The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today.  Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."

He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.  So they really were recycled.

But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind.  We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes.  Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana .

In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.

When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power.  We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water.

We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service.

We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances.  And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart mouthed young person who has been taught to blame everyone else for the consequences of their own actions.

The Green Thing