We need to treasure the little things in life. It is so easy to forget them. Those things that we used to do and think are important but too quickly are whisked away by commitments at work or home, with deadlines and commitments and before you know it you have completely lost track of them.
When We Don’t Treasure The Little Things
We talked about all the ways we were going to do things differently. It was just yesterday- 8 hours ago. This year we are going to take time for us- for love. For our relationship. He said he was going to stop working so much overtime and spend more time with the kids.
This year we will take that vacation! How about up to the mountains in that cabin like we always wanted, or maybe Disney for the kids-
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How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. James 4:14 New Living Version
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Then in a heartbeat, it’s all over.
CPR and sirens, flashing lights, and paramedics…
and you’re gone.
Childhood sweethearts- not a widow.
Mommy and daddy- not alone.
Parents – not a single parent.
All those hours- wasted.
All those words left unspoken.
All those moments I can never get back.
But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you. Psalm 39:7 NIVThe times we slept with our backs facing one another in petty anger. All those silent treatments. All those times I failed to hug you. All those times I didn’t call I love you- as you sailed out the door.
Cherish The Little Things – Looking Back
It is our first Christmas without you- and I don’t know how to do this, I don’t know how to make it be bright and happy without you.
The things I took for granted- like the way you ate the cookies Christmas Eve leaving just the crumbs behind or the footprints from the fireplace, leaving just a trail as a sign. How can I do this without you?
He will cover you with His feathers. Under His wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. Psalm 91: 4 NIV
Treasuring The Little Things – Hope When All Feels Lost
God longs to comfort us in our loss.
He longs to dry our tears and heal our broken hearts.
The widow/widower is precious to him and His ear is turned to them.
His desire is to care for them.
Read the verses here and write them down on a piece of paper, sticky note, or recipe card. Place one on the bathroom mirror, one on the coffee mug cabinet in the kitchen, and one on the front door as you come and go. Immerse yourself with the truth of his amazing love for you.
Don’t know the Lord?
You can, and it is easy. Because of His is great love for you all you have to do is tell him.
Lord, I know that I have sinned and done things that should not have. I know I have gone my own way in life and I ask you to forgive me and I lay all of that down to you at your feet. Help me to turn away from those things that lead me away from you, and I accept all Jesus did for me on the cross and His selfless payment for my sins and I want to walk with you forever as my Lord and Savior, come dwell inside of me Lord. In the name of Jesus, amen.
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As a Christian we take comfort in God’s Word – the Bible. It is a way to continue to cherish what Him and what he has to say and remember the truth even when times are hard, our hearts are heavy and hope seems like it is gone. We hide them in our heart by memorizing the verses in the bible. My sweet momma always had recipe cards all around the house after my sister was murdered and less than a year later my father died. I remember the sound of her voice as a child as she cried out in the garden thinking that I could not hear.
Exodus 22:22 NIV
Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.
Deuteronomy 10:18 NIV
He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.
Psalm 46:10 NIV
He says, “Be still and know that I am God –“
Psalm 52:8 NIV
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love forever and ever.
Psalm 68:5 NIV
A Father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
Psalm 91: 4 NIV
He will cover you with His feathers. Under His wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
Psalm 92:12 NIV
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon.
Psalm 94:19 NIV
When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.
Psalm 94:22 NIV
But the Lord has become my fortress, and my God the rock in whom I take refuge.
Psalm 146:9 NIV
The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow.
Psalm 147:3 NIV
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 119:50 NIV
My comfort in my suffering is this; Your promise preserves my life.
Psalm 119:116 NIV
Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed.
Psalm 121:2 NIV
My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Isaiah 1:17 NIV
Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 40:31 NIV
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 54:5 NIB
For your Maker is your husband – the Lord Almighty is His name –
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NIV
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
Ephesians 4:15 NIV
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
I Timothy 5:3 NIV
Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.
I Timothy 5:5 NIV
The widow who is really in need and left alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.
James 1:27 NIV
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress –
1 Peter 5:10 NIV
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
2 Peter 3:18 NIV
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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