Divinely Hooked

Have you ever felt like that?? I know I have. I couldn't understand why things kept happening the way they did. I thought that my miscarriages were punishments from God for having sex before marriage. I thought that all the hard times I went through was His anger toward me.. but boy was I SO wrong! Last Sunday we had a guest pastor come to speak, Pat Schatzline, and it was a great message. (I'll put links to him at the end of this blog.) But I wanted to share what was said and other things I got out of it. It was a powerful message and God came down to us and His presence was truly there. 4 Reasons people think God is mad at them: 1. We often see God as we saw our earthly (flawed) father. When people grow up with out a father around, with an unloving father, whatever kind of father.. we picture God in the same way. But He isn't at all like our earthly fathers. He's so much better! He doesn't get angry when we do stupid things. He doesn't fly off the handle

My mind tends to wonder about a lot of different things when it's supposed to be shutting down for the night. Normally I lay here and pray, even then random thoughts interrupt my conversations with God. Lately though I've had more wonderings than prayer, but I keep trying. And I keep praying.. God follows along with my ramblings and thankfully knows my heart even when my mind walks off. It could also be the fact that I've been eating chocolate (they were on clearance at work after Christmas and I'm a sucker for chocolate and caramel!) and had an amazing piece of chocolate cake earlier (seriously this place my husband drivers to called Pinchers has THE best chocolate cake ever!)... But even without that wonderfulness my mind takes strolls. Not just strolls.. Full marathon walks sometimes. (That made me think of speed walking and how hilarious those people look doing that) Lol A lot of the time it's about silly stuff, like grocery items I need to write down or c