Marriage

What a beautiful union. Marriage is sacred and full of beauty, it's also full of ashes. To all the ones, that may be waiting on the perfect love, I want you to scratch your head and take a deep breathe, because you won't get a perfect prize, you will get a puzzle. Yes, a maze. A journey, that requires, love, peace, patience, hope, long suffering, and so much more.You may just get the  "Garden"  All marriages aren't ordained by God. Some are ordained by man. A word of advice, if your going through right now. But, you know you love your spouse, don't, well, if you need to separate, go ahead, but, make some vows and promises to each other. I have a friend that was going through,  I  got her permission to share this. She was going through a difficult time with her husband. So, they decided to separate, so they could join back together.

But, this wasn't the case. See, when you separate from your spouse , you need to have a concrete agreement. They didn't. That's right. See, they wasn't experiencing abuse, or infidelity, just mere differences.  Let me give you a pointer, something like this...... Come to an agreement to use the private time to analyze yourself and seek God face. Nonetheless, this isn't always the case. We get vulnerable and we move before the healing come, so temptation arise, we run in before the deliverance take place. Some marriages are destroyed, because someone was impatient. All marriages were n't destroyed based of this thing we call infidelity.   Some were destroyed because they thought the grass was greener on the other side. Stay hopeful people. 

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Patience

The name of the Lord is a Strong tower....... The Righteous run in and they are saved!  God will finish what he started. No matter what. He will.

That's it.

William McDowell , thank you for that song.

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Union

Mark 10:19

Therefore what God has joined together , let no one separate.

Afternoon Insight,

I love this scripture. I realized I  didn't share my Anniversary thoughts.  This is what I wrote, and shared with my family and a  few friends. I wrote.

Morning Celebration:

This morning is dear to me, so is every morning. Just being grateful for each and everyday. I ponder on his promises for those that truly love him, this is great. I remember living in such agony , pain, and confusion, not knowing which way to turn. I  was full of hope, but yet so broken,  I knew that the Lord was there for me, and patience was his desire for me, I knew that I had to fully trust in him alone, see nothing else was fulfilling my appetite. As I ponder and wait, I tossed and turned, not knowing when my break through would come.  I realized ,I  had to give it to the Lord. My hands became unchangeable. I no longer wanted , what the world wanted. I didn't feel lonely because Jesus was right by my side.

Before my King came to me, yes, he found me. Literally two decades ago. But, this is it, before he came my first King came. I found the one that loved me long ago. The one that was patient long before I knew what patience was.  How could I not trust that Deliverance was on the way, and this gave me "Hope".

So, today, I say Thank you, Jesus for loving me like the Church. Thank you for sending me my King that loves me like you, the Church.The one that knew my failures and downfalls, the one that has help me grow and heal, truly the one that has sacrificed his life for me, just like the "Church". As I celebrate my "Anniversary"!

I say  job well done. I am grateful. It's a beautiful day! That it is. I am Thankful.  Lord this feel like the Garden. In your presence.

Jacquelyn Tookes

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Trust

I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.

Psalm 130:5

As I read this, something register, a sense of feeling and hope and consolation arise in me,  that mere thing I worry about was far greater than me, it was as if a hedge was overtaking me, but then I realized something a hedge of protection was protecting me.

Jacquelyn Tookes

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kindness

Luke 6:31

Do to others as you will have them do to you.

This registered with me today. I was explaining this to my daughter, not because she was being unkind, well because she was hearing someone be unkind. I had an representative that was very rude to me, and the strangest thing about this was, she didn't feel as if she was. This is denial, when your'e in the wrong people, don't feel as if you shouldn't take responsibility for  your wrong doing. Immediately, analyze your behavior and take full responsibility of your actions. The joy i experienced was this....My daughter recognized the patience and kindness and love that I shared with the individual that was having a bad day, to shorten the results, treat others as if you want to be treated, Ok, I get it , It's going to take some time right? This may be true. Nonetheless, be available and willing to change, it took me a long........time to reach a stage of peace. My daughter said to me, I don't know if i could be that mellow, I said to her, of course you can;  obliviously, you can't do it alone. Reach for Jesus, he will guide you through the Holy Spirit. Were never alone .

This is good

Jacquelyn Tookes

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Diligence

Diligence is another form of focus.

Jacquelyn Tookes

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Patience

Psalms 37:7

" Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him: do not fret when people succeed in their ways when they carry out their wicked schemes."

This is so profound. We are all guilty  of being impatient,some form of fashion we have all experienced the art of impatience, We may have experience impatience as a child , an adolescents. or adult.  Somewhere down the line it occurred. We tend to be in such a hurry, we want it now, could this be because we see, our friends or colleagues doing the very thing we desire, or maybe it's the opposite. We ponder and  become restless, because we wonder, if I am doing it right and it appears that their going by it the wrong way, OK, this isn't fair! we tend to wonder and ask our self is this worth the wait?  I will answer this for you. Yes, it's worth the wait. Don't feel as if your not growing, do good and good will follow. Don't desire the wicked schemes and actions of this world. Truly, this type of behavior won't last. Stay encourage. Your on the battle field to win.

Jacquelyn Tookes

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