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MORNING RIDE
Child on Horse by Laurie Justus Pace

15 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas

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Saturday morning and I am struggling to stay awake. Stacey is coming to visit soon and I want to finish up a painting before she arrives. Maybe we will shop a few hours and she will drop me on her way home at my son's house to visit and see my grandson. Terry will pick me up there on his way home this afternoon...so my studio time is short today.

Make a plan and hear God laugh.

I had great time management this week with completing all I had planned out. Sometimes in life we plan but it is not His plan. That is something to pray about, having God guide you in to putting your life in Right Order. Most of us have issues with control. Well at least 99.9 percent of us do. So when you think about it in life you must be willing to submit (eek) yourself to others. That is losing control. God works on us our entire existence here in this life's journey to get to the point that we realize we do not have control.

Is your life in order right now today? Is it your order or His? If you are not in the right place you cannot receive His blessings in your life. In Matthew we are told to seek God first and then all else will follow.

Grace
Laurie

"He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it." Matthew 10:39

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