The Flight of Your Life 
What God teaches through faith's ups and downs
Life with jesus hasn't turned out quite the way I thought it would.
As a child, "testimony time" was my favorite feature of Sunday evening church. Each week the white-haired ladies and gentlemen around me would grab the pew ahead, pull themselves to a slightly stooped stand, and proclaim, "I accepted Jesus forty years ago, and it's been glory ever since." I figured "glory" must be great, and couldn't ...
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Tracy Pace
we are so obsessed with controlling outcomes, it's something I learned from studying Buddhism- attachment to the outcome weakens us. We have to do what we need to do simply trusting that what we do not know or cannot control is in God's balance!
Robin Brooks
This article has helped me. I will leave my unanswered questions with the Lord. I believe that the Lord is a promise keeper even though I don't see how through his will. My childish, immature perceptions of God and my faith in Him, has been replaced with blind faith, no matter what the situation. Through Each situation I will no longer face looking back at what I might have done to cause it, I will face it with new faith that whatever it is that is happening is God's will for my life. Thank You Ruth
Karen Coutier
Yes, your article is all so true. Sometimes we loose sight from God's needs/wills and mainly focus on our own. I lived your article two years ago and am just coming to see the "rainbow" now. I had a talk with God last year. He said a smiliar thing~it's not your will, the doctor's will or your husband's will that I heal you (of physical, emotional, etc), it's MY WILL and MY TIMING. I ended up giving all of those things to him. But I did ask for what my job was and he assigned me one. Now we are trying to make another baby and it's taking longer than expected. My hormones are good, etc. And I like your article, kept wondering what I have to do to get one (what I want). So thank you for reaffirming that "don't have to do everything" but rather focus our love for him. I recently read the latest issue of DECISION by the Billy Graham org. How Ruth just kept going back to the father for everything. That she had sacrificied herself for GOD'S cause and it was hard but she made it!!!
Folakemi Olu Alabi
This article is a source of encouragement and lifting to me .Before i read it i had a feeling of been inadequate in my christian walk and honestly there are times i want to call it quits becaus of all I have been through. But one thing come to my mind any time i want to give up,where do i go from His presence and to whom do i go from His spirit. No one else can Father me the way He does and care for me the way he has been Loving me. In every situation when i do things i ought not to and i have a sensce of guilt and become sad ;His still small voice whispers to me that He will never stop Loving me or being my Father and God no matter what is happening in my life. He knows all about us and His Love for us Can never end, He made us and He is interested in us. He gives joy to the hopeless and peace to the weary and he binds up the broken hearted. Folakemi (Nigeria Africa)
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