07/21/2025
Today’s Tea Drop ~~ Spilling the tea ……
With everything that is going on in the world lately especially in Texas; I’ve been feeling it on my heart as well as being nudged for a while to speak this.
It is so important for us to remember there is always someone going through a worse situation or difficult season in their life, then what we may be going through on any particular day.
It is so important that we are grateful for what we have, for the people in our lives, even as difficult as they may be sometimes, and that things aren’t worse for us. That person or people in your life even if they are family or just friends or neighbors one day they won’t be there and then who do you turn to when those that you leaned on at one point in your life are suddenly gone or maybe one day you won’t be here and that person of those people can’t hug you or tell you how much you meant to them because of an offense that was carried around and just festered.
People whether it’s your parents, your children your best friends were there for you and in an instant, in a blink of an eye, a sudden moment everything changed. You won’t always get that “notice” to say your goodbyes to make your amends or to fix any wrongs. I’ve had my moments also no one‘s perfect however, recently I have had a lot of people reach out to me for prayer and because I know how important my faith is in my life and that no matter what is happening in this world my trust is in God. I turn to him for everything. HE is the first one I go to now always for everything, especially when someone asks me for prayer for something specific. I keep it confidential between God and myself, and I also plead and standing in the gap for those people, including my own children & my spouse. GOD determines our steps no one else, HE decides our journey/paths, HE has already written our story and HE also gives us free choice.
That choice you make sometimes comes with consequences, that offense you want to hold on to and be bitter about that comes with consequences, that anger you hold on to so tightly sometimes you feel like you can’t breathe has consequences, those words that you speak that are harmful and mean have more consequences than you can even imagine. God knows what’s in your heart and our words come from our heart.
So pause, take a beat for a moment, look for that good in those bad situations because they ARE there I know firsthand, I have had cancer three times. I’ve lost a child before it was born that I loved deeply ! I also know I’m here for a purpose and through every single difficult & sometimes extremely painful moment of my life GOD was with me HE was the FIRST one I turned to. HE gave me the courage to tell my husband and my children that I had cancer again and to let them know we were going to be okay, that it would be a battle, and I was all in because I made a promise to God just like he made a promise to me. Like what is on my arm with the armor, STILL.I.RISE.
When I lashed out because I was hurt because someone told me something that was very ugly and lashed out at me for something they were going through. I was extremely angry about that cancer diagnosis again, and carrying around that backpack full of all the painful moments, the ones where it was so difficult I was in such darkness I couldn’t see my way out, or the offensives that happened to me. It became really heavy until I gave my life back to GOD and the load was gone when I laid it ALL at the cross including everything that I did wrong in my life and the amends, I had to make directly, the sincere apologies because when I was going through something the way I dealt with it was wrong to other people. That is what happens when you don’t put God in your life ~ you think you can handle what life throws at you and that is the silliest thing anyone could even begin to think you can handle. We aren’t superheroes we didn’t create ourselves, but we did create some of the problems that are in our lives and the ones that we didn’t create, we have to bring to our CREATOR.
What’s important when you lay it down is that you don’t pick it back up and start filling it up again instead LEAVE IT. Look around you and pick someone else up to lift them up. Do NOT keep dragging around the things that bring you down.
Life is too short so try forgiving or maybe overlooking something that is small that you’re making big you would be amazed at how wonderful your heart will feel especially when you help someone else in need when they least expect it or when you give kind words to someone you’ve been ugly to, you can see it on their face. It changes instantly. Instead of being ugly or saying, hateful, mean words, you chose to speak life to them and fill their cup up, which in turn will overflow your cup in ways you can’t even understand yet.
May you be well, be blessed & be filled with joy in every day and know that someone’s always praying for you or over you even when you don’t ask. Your prayer warrior is on the front lines of the battle standing in the gap for you and you don’t even know. 🤍
