“Oh my goodness gracious if you all are like me..the trash in the house honestly never stops..Amen..it’s like how in the world do we even accumulate so much of it..it’s unreal honestly..but this morning as I was cleaning up the kitchen after breakfast I went over and grabbed the trash from the trash can and as I did this..well..now don’t judge me..lol..but anyways so here I am I think well I should go ahead and grab the bag thats on the table that has the paint all over it..for thats where I’ve been painting at..so here I go with my trash in hand..and I grab the bag from the table..then I think well my coffee pot still has my coffee pod in it..I should go get it too..Amen..and so here I go again carrying my bag of trash all the while I am collecting more as I go along..and even so my Benjamin is standing in the middle of the floor looking at his mommy like I had done lost my mind or something..lol..and for all that doesn’t know Benjamin is our English Lab..he is precious..Amen!”

“But long story short as I am doing all of this craziness..I begin to here the Lord say..isn’t that how so many do..Amen..and I thought wow yes it is Lord..Amen..but then my mind went to Sunday morning after church and in bible fellowship class the teacher there was speaking of the same thing..he says we say we do have faith..but this is the thing..what do many do..they take there prayer to the Lord and they pray..Amen..but then they get up and they load it all back up again..Amen..isn’t that the truth?..we are so much a self sufficient people..that we truly do love the Lord..Amen..but letting go of the prayers that we have prayed and actually leaving them with the Lord..well, now that is another thing in and of itself..Amen..because somehow we feel we need to keep it..just in case..we need to hold on to it..just in case the Lord may forget..Amen..who knows and then we won’t get the prayer answered..so we keep it safely tucked away with us..Amen..every hurt..every bad decision..every disappointment..every let down..every sickness..every bad word that has ever been spoken..every mistake that was done to us..Amen..so here we go as I was this morning just carrying it around that big ole bag of trash..Amen..and of course as I was going along..I just picking up more of the trash and adding in into my bag of trash..Amen!”

“But I do pray we have faith in the Lord our God and that we trust Him..Amen..for when we come to Him the bible says we must believe that He is a rewarder to them that diligently seek Him..and as well that He hears us and that He is good and faithful and that He will answer us..because without faith the bible says we cannot please the Lord..Hebrews 11:6..Amen..for with faith well now that is another whole story..because it says ALL things are possible to them that believe..Mark 9:23..Amen..and we don’t need much faith..Amen..the word says as a grain of mustard seed..Matthew 17:20/Luke 17:6..Amen..so I do know that people have disappointed us in life..of course they will because their people..were not perfect..Amen..but as well the Lord was persecuted..and He was perfect and upright in all of His ways..Amen..but the thing is this..we do only have one life..and if we hold on to ALL the trash that has come to us in our lives without trusting the Lord to take care of it..and to help us and to deliver us from those things..well we will end up really heavy laden..we will end up carrying so much weigh that we will lose ourselves..our lives..everything..we will miss life as it is today..Amen..this day..Amen!”

“So let us let go of the hurts..quit speaking of them..quit carrying them around..sounding like a broken record..Amen..for the Lord knows..others know..Amen..they have heard it..so trust the Lord to fight your battles because He does..Amen..and live your life well..don’t carry a mess around with you..the only thing the mess does..well you know the trash so to speak..leaves us dirty and smelly..and if we keep carrying it over time..it starts to destroy so much..because it gets pretty disgusting..ugh..so be free in your life..let go of the past..Amen..for we are older..we are free..we are loved..and we are the apple of the Lords eyes..Zechariah 2:8..Amen..and live this life and live is well..Praise the Lord..don’t walk around carrying past..carrying pain..and carrying all of them hurts..Amen..but leave them there with the Lord..and trust Him..and He will take care of them..Amen..for He is such an amazing Father..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi ❤