Faith????

Where has faith gone?



When I was a child I had childlike faith and I believe that Christ tells us to come to him as a child because of the faith. I recently got on facebook and though I have pastored for several years off and on with my husband I never realized until recently that people truly have so little faith.



When people want to get better, they ask for reference of meds, or a doctor. When people want financial problems solved, they go to conference. When they want their marriage fixed, they either go to couseling or re-marry. Why is it that faith in God is not longer the center of focus for christians today.

I recently had a friend post something that they were hoping, needing and expecting a miracle in. Suddenly post after post of people giving advice on how to fix it, things to do, people to call. This troubled me. People were not agreeing with the belief for a miracle but rather trying to offer solution. I know we as humans want a quick fix, if we are fat, we want a pill, or a surgery, if we are an addict we want a quick solution to deal with it. If we have a sickness, give me drugs. We then wonder why God isn't working.

Because we are not asking him to.

That is as simple and basic as answer that I can give. No one expects miracles. Yes people will "let" people pray for them, and will even ask for prayer but it seems today it is because it looks good. Why have we come to this. I remember when I was little I watched people get healed and there were praises and great declarations. I want, wish, hope and pray that we can become a people that will rise up in agreement with others when they want a miracle, not cower and believe in the ailment. If you truly want to help, pray, believe and find that childlike faith deep, deep down and thank God for the miracle that he has done.

Shout to the Lord with a voice of Triumph!!!!

LEMONADE, LEMONADE!!!!!

Last summer my daughter had a lemonade stand at our home and sold enough to make about ten or fifteen dollars. She did it at a yard sale that I had. She really liked the people handing her money and realized then that there were lots of things that could be sold with lemonade, why not cookies and brownies and she decided that she would have several lemonade stands each year and that was how she would earn spending money.

Well we moved into an apartment in the winter months and therefore she was not going to be able to hold her beloved lemonade stand and yet, my little girl was sure to overcome this obstacle. Grace announced two months ago that she was ready to have a lemonade stand, unsolicited, un reminded, and unscathed by the fact that we, the Shorey's no longer lived in a house but an apartment, and therefore we could not have one at our house. Well when she made her announcement her father told her such. We cannot have a lemonade stand baby because we do not live in a house and the apartment owners don't allow us to sell things. After a moment of silent thought and intent processing, she announced, "Starla has a house, I can sell lemonade at Starla's!!!" this is a woman in our church that indeed has a house. Craig,(her dad) then laughed and said, well if you think she will let you then you can ask her, but YOU have to be the one to ask and be responsible for it. Determined to forge on with her summer business plan, she remembered and asked each day if we had yet to ask Starla and we reminded her that we were not going to. By Wednesday she no longer mentioned it and by Sunday morning I was sure she had forgotten about the entire thing and I was not going to remind her, her business, her ideas. Well as we arrived for church as we always did and walked into the sanctuary, she scoped the room and there she was, Starla, (who had been told the story by us to pre warn her and get ok) Grace spotted her and pulled me to ear shot and said, "will you come with me" I had forgotten what she was referring and stated, "For what?" she rolled her eyes and said, " to ask Starla, about lemonade?" Shocked I followed as my little businesswoman grabbed my hand and led me to ask Starla, since she had a house could she have a lemonade stand there.

So here we are the weekend has arrived and we are to sell lemonade and she has remembered and plans to make some money, she says to give some to Jesus, to save, and of course to SHOP!!! a girl after my own heart and SHE has a plan!!!:)

stupid face!!!

so I wake up the other morning and the left side of my face is swollen, eye, lip, cheek. I look awful, so I take a benedryl and go to my conference and soon after my lunch break my eye began sweeling again. So I come home take some more benedryl and again it goes down some. I then buy some liquid benedryl, I felt it would work more quickly, and sure enough after I took it around 7 pm, I began to feel loss of use of limbs and my language bacame slurred and 8 pm out, like a light. Crazy.

So I am spending the majority of my time right now trying to figure out what on earth did this to me. Anyhow. body telling me something!!

my babies helped me see!!

I hate how the mind works sometimes, it plays tricks, it works all the time. I think all the time, sometimes so much that I overthink or lose track of thoughts.

I want to work harder on just enjoying life. Tonight as I walked with my two girls around the complex parking lot. The simplicity of joy that they discovered awed me. I stood and listened in amazement at their simple discorveries. Grace, finding her "shark teeth" and "light up bugs" and Faithie looking at the stars and calling them "light, mommy light!!" The simple treasures in life that we forget to pay attention to as we age and let the worries and frustrations of life take over.

This has been an unusual summer for us. For the first time since we have been married we have no worry or concern for things. We don't wonder about phone calls, hospital visits or worry who will be upset when we return from vacation or if we spend the day fishing. Right now our biggest worry is, where to go fishing and what do we do with our plants while on vacation. I think I can handle that. So in spending more time with the girls an less time on school or worries. I have begun to notice the little things. I laid on a blanket with my two year old and enjoyed looking at the stars, I sat there and had Grace show me the "shark teeth" that she had found and suddenly I began to appreciate the simplicity of life and the enjoyment of just being. I remember once reading the verse, Be still and know that I am God and today, I lived it. Thanks girls!!!:)