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Holding on to Jesus, 04AUG

An email to my former Pastor R…. Thought I would share…

Now I have a post-VBS, come back to reality check… Scale back down the mountain without falling… It is now more than ever that I truly need to stay connected to the LIGHT… it’s now when I feel the need to let Jesus hold me up… Arms raised surrender style… Financial bills, life worries, work worries, family worries, yeah swirling…. HOLD me inside the hurricane please Jesus….

This bracelet (photo attached) that my Pastor gave me is a good reminder for me to stay in Jesus’s circle of life and hold on… (oh if you could have seen the such excitement he had giving it to me on “Christmas in July” of all days, because the white bead contains water from Mount Everest our VBS theme… I was truly speechless with such a thoughtful gesture and such amazing loving support). This bracelet’s white bead representing the highest of highs in your life remember to stay humble and the black bead containing mud from the Dead Sea remind you when you’re at your lowest of lows to stay hopeful…. and for me the many beads in between in camouflage earthly tones are where I am scaling down right now… holding on to my faith to keep from slipping. The VBS slow song I’ve been listening to is “as I hold on to my faith, Jesus you are holding on to me”…

Truly I’ve been so blessed to feel the connection to the LIGHT of Jesus that will find me if I ever get too close to escaping to the dark… Psalm 139… I pray I will keep my joy, and I truly feel I will…

Truly I know I will keep my joy with my memories, my present tremendous blessings, in my hope in the future… As summer is still in full swing then winds down… I will enter my favorite season, Fall, and guess what comes after that? Christmas… this will be my first REAL Christmas, 100% now in Jesus’s loving arms… I feel he was planted as a baby in me last Dec/January and I’ve been growing him in my heart and in my arms all year and now he’s grown big enough to carry me through….

Yeah, that’s TRUE JOY…

Jesus holding me in JOY…