To my mother... Happy Mother's day...

Thanks for praying for me and keeping me in your heart and thoughts. I thought about you all week about what I want to say for Mother''s day. These are my thoughts of my life over the years. God created my inmost being and knitted me together in my mother''s womb. As we do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother''s womb, so we cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. This is what the LORD says— ''He who made you, Who formed you in the womb, and Who will help you and that before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart. In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will. The LORD said to Moses, ''Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD ?'' I was born this way so that the work of God might be displayed in my life and I know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God. The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD. In my heart I plan my course, but the LORD determines my steps. In my experiences, I have learned alot and God have pruned me so much over the years. In reality, I cannot expect to escape circumstances I have faced because they will always happen, one way or another. Without circumstances, my self-discovery will not be completed and my self-judgment will be biased and imperfect. This is why I am to work along with the Holy Spirit so that I may make amendments as the circumstances demand. By discovering who I am, I will also be finding whom I am not and whom I can be through Christ. My greatest teachers have been my circumstances because my greatest spiritual growth occurred in the most unfavorable of circumstances. When I am most aware of my weaknesses, I am more inclined to collapse into God''s strength and experience His amazing grace. ''My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.'' (2 Cor. 12:9). Having faith in God allows me to go as far as I can while trusting in God''s grace to overcome the difficulties I face every day. God is asking me to stay strong in faith, keep at it, to carry on, to stick with it, as I trust in HIS possibilities. In doing so God will lift me above my circumstances as He develops my character. Bad things are never good and God never wants bad things to happen, but the Bible clearly repeated reminding me that God uses trials to work for our good for His Glory. Sometimes God allows us to suffer so He can refine us. Suffering purifies us like fire refines gold (1 Pet. 1:6-7). God will ultimately work out for my good and for His Glory. The Bible and the Holy Spirit clearly taught me that God didn''t merely promise me that temporal good will come out of difficult situations but did promised that whatever I do during my trials that God will be with me and I will Glorify God. Happy Mother''s Day !!! I love you. Your love have kept me strong and I thank you for give me the encouragements when I need them. I have not forgotten my commitments and I will meet and complete my commitments.