I WANT TO BE POOH

It occurred to Pooh 🐻 and Piglet 🐷 that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats 🎩 and coats 🧥 and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood🌲 to Eeyore's stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore.
"Hello Eeyore," said Pooh. 
"Hello Pooh. 🐻 Hello Piglet 🐷" said Eeyore, in a Glum Sounding Voice 
"We just thought we'd check in on you," said Piglet, "because we hadn't heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay."
Eeyore was silent for a moment. "Am I okay?" he asked, eventually. "Well, I don't know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That's what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. 
Which is why I haven't bothered you. Because you wouldn't want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now."
Pooh looked and Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.
Eeyore looked at them in surprise. "What are you doing?"
"We're sitting here with you," said Pooh, "because we are your friends. And true friends don't care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are." 💜💚
"Oh," said Eeyore. "Oh." And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better. 🥰
Because Pooh and Piglet were There.
No more; no less.
A.A.Milne
E.H.Shepard

*This is not my own story, I read it online and posted it here since I loved it

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BARREN TO BLESSED

Barren women they muttered her name

Depressed and hurt she lived in shame

Her rival provoked her till she cried

Pain and disgrace she could not hide

Her neighbors asked her, "What was wrong?

To have a baby, does it take that long?"

Who is this living God you talk about?

Her faith in Him they made her doubt

She woke up each night and bitterly wept
Her husband consoled her as she slept

In deep anguish she couldn't eat or drink

Her misery was all that she could think

In despair she cried out and prayed,

"God, to your work this child I trade"

She poured out her heart in tears

There on the alter she laid her fears

God stooped down from heaven and heard her cry

He said, "My promise to you I will not defy"

"She's Hannah", the blessed women they say

"She's you! cause your Samuel is on the way"

- Grace Xavier

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WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM STRONG

If you have been following my blog closely, I have mentioned about my ill health. Yes, I have been down for a while now. I was diagnosed with ovarian cyst and along with some other complications for which I underwent a very painful surgery. I almost died out of pain while they did few other tests. I knew this was going to be painful since I had read so many reviews before. I didn't want to go through any of these tests or surgery. Several times I cried to God to take this away from me. But God just gave me a verse through my dad on the day of my surgery. He said, “God’s grace is sufficient for Gracema (dad calls me Gracema)”. While being broken, I held on to this verse.

I read again from 2 Corinthians 12 where Apostle Paul says, “Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Even now as I'm recovering from the pain, I am mediating that when I am weak, then I am strong. Whatever you may be undergoing today, God’s grace is sufficient for you.

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BE ENCOURAGED

Verse:

And David was greatly distressed;...but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
 1 Samuel 30:6

Devotion:

This morning on the way to work, I was feeling very low. Life seems to go on but I feel like I have been drifting away from my dreams, passion and goals. I felt like a big failure. To be honest, I was super discouraged. I told God, please encourage me Lord. This verse came to mind. I have been reading 1st Samuel. And I must admit that I admire King David's approach to life. No wonder God calls him a man after His own heart. Even when the storms of life hit you hard, stand tall. Encourage yourself in the Lord!

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