EnCourage: Journaling Heart-Words

Hi! I’m happy your here! I am sharing this with the #write31days challenge community. If you are a 31dayer, please share Your Name & Blog in the comments below. I’d love to read your Heart-Words.

I am EnCouraged by you reading these, my Heart-Words. Yet, I must admit, there are times when I am not happy. Yes, there are times when I am simply DisCouraged. I Struggle. I Fight. And I continue to Pray, unceasingly. Searching the Word. Seeking. Silently Crying Out. Until… finally; Finally, I can get Them out. Out onto the pages of a Journal. Them… Those Words. The ones that have been lurking in the Darkness just beyond clarity. Those Words, finally penned on a Page.

Searching the Word. Seeking. Silently Crying Out. Until… finally; Finally, I can get Them out. Out onto the pages of a Journal.

Oh, Thank You Lord for this Sweet Relief and Comfort that is Your Peace. Then. Weeks later. Then, I Read. Out. Loud. I Read, unsure as I revisit those Words, Stumbling over even the simple Words. Simply Pronounced Words that now, in this Moment, carry such heavy Meaning for me. I Read Out Loud…Feeling the Meaning Laden Words I carried for so, so Long. I Feel those Words Spill out into the Open Air. I see them caught in ThoughtFull Eyes who See Me, and know they are tucked neatly into her Listening Heart. Thank You Lord for this One, a Dear Heart-Sister.

I was undone & yet, once again, felt peace. Then, she told me that it EnCouraged her. What?! My Heart-Words? The same Words that had caused me such struggling pain to Finally pen on a Journal Page? These Words EnCouraged Her?! I am surprised that Those Words; they EnCouraged her to know that she was not The Only One who has similar feelings of Fear.

Heart-Sisters

Then, she said I should Post This. This Journaling?! …Really? On my Blog? For EveryOne to Read? Wow. This mixture of terrifying fear & tremendous, anticipating JOY filled me. I told her Ok. That’s a Good Idea.

I wrote the Journal entry: July 25, 2014. Yes, It took some time, more EnCouragement and a last minute Discovery of The Nester’s #write31days Blogging Challenge & much prayer but here it is: Scrolled across the top of the Journal page: Friday, July 25, 2014 Night-Watch 2:18 AM

Father God, Thank You for all You’ve blessed me with. Forgive me, please, for my sins. I know I’ve been stagnate, frozen, paralyzed by fear.

Fear of exactly what? Messing up Your plan/will for me; not being good or gifted enough; fear of all the unknowns; fear of not being able to follow through; of completing the task, job, mission You’re calling me to. Fear no one will Get It. Fear that I am less than I was before the accident. Fear that I will be embarrassed by my lack of memory, energy and the abundance of pain & it’s effects.

I am afraid of doing this “alone”. I have lost my confidence in me, therefore, in You too . . . Wow😐😞 …I’m sorry Lord. Please forgive me! . . . ~>

OK. Where to GO from here? What path do I take? What Focus do I need-

🎶 Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look Full in His Wonderful Face. And the Things of this World will grow strangely dim, In the Light of His glory and grace. 🎶

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus. Helen H. Lemmel, 1922 (Hebrews 12:2)

What Message do You have for this, Thy Servant? FACEDOWN.

Search me, O God, And Know my heart;

Test me, And know my anxious thoughts;

See if there is any  way inoffensive way in me,

And lead me in the way everlasting.

~ Psalm 139:23-24 (NIV)

Writing The Word. Psalm 139:23-24

These Words may or may not EnCourage You. That’s Ok. Yes, really. I needed to do this post & Actually hit Publish for me in Obedience to my Lord. If there is Only One who has been or will be EnCouraged by these Heart-Words. It’s OK.

I want You to know that when You Journal, Write out Your Heart-Words, God hears Your Heart. He Knows Exactly What You Mean. Yes, even if we don’t know, exactly, He Does.

I Hope You will discover how to EnCourage Yourself & maybe a Heart-Friend too by Penning your Words to the Page of a Journal when you Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus. Which is, by the way, Any Scrap of Paper you Choose to Write on! 📝😉

Have a JOYfull Day! {💞HUGs} 💚Love Ya! Susie 🙂