It is Written

seeking happiness?  I tried and tried to link the New York times assortment of articles  here  I did forward it to family but was unable to share it here.  Basically...we know...mankind is that he might have joy.  Isn't joy a step up from happiness?  something to think about.

I hope your Thanksgiving is marvelous and you are happy and thankful to the max.

I'm thankful for each of you readers!

My life is rather hectic at this point and scary at times like those roller coaster rides that appear to be unsteady and ready to plunge off the tracks.  In spite of all this...way inside I feel this peace.  Peace never means to me that everything is going to turn out hunky-dory...peace to me means- the Lord is aware.  He knows what I'm dealing with and He will help me.  I had a real wonderful experience that has lasted for several days of just the feeling that I can get through whatever my life entails and when I think I can't go another step, He will give me a boost.  Sort of like those pioneers that felt someone was pushing their handcart when they could go no further.  They pushed forward with strength beyond their own.

I'm just so thankful for scriptures and that I believe them to be true.  When I read them, I recognize God's Word and His promise.  Again...I'm thankful for the love I have of learning and reading and pondering and praying and how fantastic it is when I am comforted and counseled by the words.

Remember when Christ rebuked Satan and 3 times said...It is written.  Those are sweet words.  When I read the scriptures, that feeling enters my heart- it is written and it is God's promise to me.  It is His truth and it gives me courage.

This last week my scriptures of great courage, my personal it is written word, was found here...

Isaiah 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
and 
Psalm 107:6 Then they ^acried unto the Lord in their ^btrouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

I read vs. 28-31 of Isaiah 40 and I could not read and absorb it enough times. I loved the part that we cannot fathom His understanding and power.  We can hope for and anticipate and our strength will be renewed.  The feelings I had and the comfort and belief in the absolutes of these verses lack the passion I felt when I write them but it was there.  It is still there.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and enjoy these wonderful verses!  read the footnotes also.

It is Written....

Isaiah 40
28 ¶ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the ^aeverlasting God, the Lord, the ^bCreator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no ^csearchingof his understanding.

29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

31 But they that ^await upon the Lord shall ^brenew their^cstrength; they shall mount up with wings as ^deagles; they shall ^erun, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.