Well, I am back.  I have been super busy at things and I have not followed up on my desire to post a running journal.

We’ve got cooler days down here in Florida these days, all the way down to the 80″s… lol  It is cooler for us, but still very

nice.  But, I am not here to talk too much about the weather.  I love the way the Lord has created the different enviroments,

some like it cold, some like snow, some like the dry desert lands.  I like it hot.  But, I have friends who do not like it this hot, and in

them is a desire to stay north where there are four seasons (including that wet white stuff they call snow.)  Well, that means there

are christians in the north, the south, the east, and the west.  I believe that our desires are given to us by the Lord.

Desires are one of the things that I am still learning about.  I laid all my desires on the table before the Lord and asked for His.

Since then, He has given me many desires.  It is a strange process within our hearts when we begin to adopt His desires as our own.

In the early stages, having any desire made me uneasy, so I sort of went around “desireless” just trying to have only His desires.

Then as I began to grow, I realized, some of those desires were His, and I began to open up.  Of course, then there were all kinds

of desires that started flooding in, so then I had to back up and start again with a clean table.

We got to be careful not quench the Holy Spirit within us as He begins to place in us the desires of His heart.  Yes, we must die to ourselves,

our own agenda, and our own personal goals, but don’t cast out the desires that the Lord puts in our hearts.  It is a journey learning how

to discern His desires from our own.

Have a happy journey and keep smiling.