That was the message from my brother, Kevin, the other day and what I recommend for us all! This life is rough, man, and WE NEED GOD. He said it’s like I’m in a boxing match right now, but just like Mike Tyson, who gets hit in the head 10,000 times, I will get used to the constant blows, becoming tougher, stronger, wiser, and better. Let me tell ya, the troubles, challenges, disappointments, frustrations, hurts, and problems are never ending, but I want us to use them all to bring us closer to God, with our eyes fixed on Him in every moment.

“Neeks, I want you to work on being a wise woman,” is what Kevin also had to say to me last year. For me, that means involving God in every decision I make. ‘God, what would You have me to do here?’ is my constant question to Him. It’s not what the crazy, emotional, and irrational Neeks wants to do, but looking to God, being steady, calm, cool, mature, and focused on what He would have me to do. He always knows best!

I loved a wink from Him yesterday at the tree where I meet Him every day for my morning run. The evening before that, I was out with Julie practicing her driving. She told me about a group her high school friends started to help with beginning college a year earlier. Like a support group. She loved how they were going overboard in helping each other, and she mentioned how she was able to advise them on how to get the textbooks for free. I said to her that I guessed that they didn’t attend the Zoom meeting where they announced that everything would be for free, even down to lab goggles. So, at the tree with God, the song ‘Don’t Rush,’ was playing, and I decided to look for the word “Rush” in an old emailed post. Look what incredibly showed up in the very first email I opened:

“To the point that I was up after midnight CRYING attending a Zoom meeting with my daughter, Julie, for her early admissions to attend college completely for free in the US. They said even if she needed lab goggles, they would be provided free of charge.”

Believe it or not, this was God’s sweet way of reminding me that He is intimately involved in every moment of my life. This lined up extremely too perfectly to be some ordinary coincidence! Of all the emails, for me to open that one because that song playing at that moment, was all orchestrated by God to let me know that His invisible Presence is always with me, including that drive with my daughter, Julie.

And this is what gives me the courage to face my life bravely and joyously, knowing God is always with me. Are you seeking a closer walk with Him? He is the firm foundation we need to build our lives on. When the storms and the rain come (and they will come!), we can hold on to Him to guide us safely through to the other side. GOD IS OUR GREATEST FRIEND!!! But if you don’t develop a relationship with Him, you miss out on His guidance, love, strength, and wisdom for your life.

Every day, I want us all waking up to appointments with Him, asking Him what He has to say to us through alone times with Him. Not one moment spent with Him is wasted. I love our family’s website, werollwithgod.com, where He reminds me of the person He would have me to be: hard, tough, brave, strong, courageous, yet also soft, loving, gentle, faithful, forgiving, and joyful. God knows the utmost best decision for us at every turn. It’s just for us to get to know His personality and His voice through seeking Him. “MAKE GETTING CLOSE TO GOD YOUR PRIORITY!”

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