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So we all know about Sam, don’t we? He had an accident and it could have gone worse or better but thankfully he’s on the mend and he’ll be fine. Lately another of my friends has been in hospital, she’s ill too.Which makes me think… ‘If you were to die today, have you achieved all you want? Are you truly happy with what you’re doing?’ God wants us to be happy. He loves us enough to know each one of us inside out - all we do and all we say is seen before we act, by the one and only God. So surely we should do our hardest to be happy within ourselves?

God loves each one of us. He created us with values and norms and morals…
but most of all he created us with an ability to think and a conscience…

Oohhhh we love the conscience! It has this amazing ability to make us feel guilty, and in a strange way it is an odd way of God telling us we’ve done wrong, so fix it and the feeling will go away. (I think anyway.)
But mostly… God wants us to be happy. Happy within ourselves. Happy within our relationships. Happy with Him. But right now a lot of us are lost. I know I find it hard to forgive and forget, especially when I’ve done wrong and I have to accept it and apologise. (Which is most of the time… [rebel!])

Now find a bible quote… wait… wait… searching… found one!
Psalm 139 : 10.
It goes… ‘Even there you would guide me, With your right hand you would hold me.’

So… you’re reading that and thinking… no relevance. But there is! Haha! Basically I’m trying to say that God’s all around us and things are happening for reasons beyond our understanding, until the end when it will all fit into place. So by reading this it’s saying that God’s always there for us. It’s ok to be angry and scared with guilt but it’s also ok to forgive, although we find it hard. God will be with us all the way through.  

And it’s not meant to be easy, but it gets easier, and with God behind you watching you… surely its all you need? The forgiveness is for a reason and the in-between,
oh the in-between… most awkward, moodiest stage of all (I blame hormones).

I mean are you truly happy with your relationship with God? With other people?
And if you’re thinking ‘no’… what are YOU going to do about it? And that… is my challenge to you.

Emily

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