'Kimmie Sue's "LIFE LESSONS"'

✝️🤔🤦🏻‍♀️ Recently, it has occurred to me that, I am more AFRAID of "SUCCESS" (in the "worldly" sense - whatever that really means??), than, I am of "FAILURE!!" 😏 Why, you might ask?!  I do not have a clear cut answer.  Maybe, it's because I've experienced failure more than I have SUCCESS, therefore, it is, familiar and comfortable, to me?!  I just don't completely understand why! 😗😏 Don't get me wrong - I have a VERY strong desire to be SUCCESSFUL!! Maybe, the fear of it is partly due to the fact that, I know myself (especially, the old part of me that, is the old nature/flesh) so well, that, I fear - of WHAT I am capable - given too much - money, fame, notoriety, etc. (any kind of big success)?! 🤷🏻‍♀️ I also, know that, "the world, the flesh, and the devil," offer a multitude of "opportunities," with which, one has the possibility to achieve "SUCCESS," in which, I am no longer interested, after various...

🚗🚘 A long, long time ago, I let "JESUS take the wheel," of my life! 🙂🙏🏼✝️💜 Many times since then, I have been tempted to grab it, have actually tried to grab it, have grabbed it, and thus, have scared, hurt, embarrassed, etc., myself and others! 😏 HE was/is in the "driver's seat" of the "car of my life," and, has been since that day, of which, I write!  Therefore, anytime I have tried to "help" HIM steer, I have NOT helped HIM, but, have caused fender benders, wrecks, ETC.!! 😩 Whenever, I try to take back the "steering wheel" of my life, I am not applying Scriptures, such as - Proverbs 3:5+6 (and many others), to my journey! 📖 Instead, this type of behavior is based in FEAR, not FAITH! 😏 Thank God, by HIS bountiful GRACE, I have never PUSHED wonderful JESUS, the perfect "driver," completely out of the "driver's seat" of my "car of life," which, would have been (and, would be)...CATASTROPHI...

💖...on SOLITUDE...and, SOLITARY living... 👩🏻 Being ALONE has a POWER that very few people can handle! - Steven Aitchison 📝😏 Anymore, I love being alone - probably "to a fault," but, I have NOT always loved it to such an extreme degree! 🤔 It's a good thing that, I don't mind it, because, I'm here, all by myself, at home - A LOT! 🙂 However, I can honestly write that, I very seldom "feel" lonely. ☺️ "LONELINESS is FAILED SOLITUDE" - Sherry Turkle 💖 And, I am very thankful that, I don't! 🙌🏼 I have always enjoyed alone time, but, whenever, I was younger, I was much more social than I am presently. 😕 I greatly cherish the tranquility, peace, quietness, etc., in which, I "sense," whenever, I am in my home - alone (not entirely accurate - because, The Good Lord is always with me). 🏡 It seems to me that, there is not a "one size fits all" amount of alone time! 🤔 Each individual has his/her own preference as to the am...

💙⚾️ "IT'S HARD TO BEAT A PERSON WHO NEVER GIVES UP!" - Babe Ruth ⚾️💙 As a result of - BEING - fifty five years YOUNG (ha!), married - thirty five and half years (long yrs. - just kidding!🤣😉🙏🏼), and, being a preacher's wife - thirty two years, "you can bet on" the certainty that - I have had to - as the following statement (T-U - post from 'FB') says:  "Sometimes, you just have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and TRY again!" The picture with it, shows a horse that, is shaking off a bunch of dust. 🐴💞 However, it seems as though, I find myself doing this - much too often, and, this frustrates me! 😩 Nevertheless, something (to God's credit) in me, will not LET me be totally defeated, and/or, to quit! 🙌🏼 We all should "take heed," whenever, we are discouraged, and tempted to "GIVE UP, to these powerful words - spoken by the late-great, Dr. Maya Angelou:  "You may encounter many defeats, but, you must NO...

💖👯‍♂️ "A man (person) that hath FRIENDS must shew himself (or herself) FRIENDLY:  and there IS a FRIEND that sticketh closer than a brother" (Proverbs 18:24)! 📖🕊🙏🏼✝️💜 First of all, JESUS is the, "GOAT" (greatest of ALL time), and/or, FRIEND, who, sticks closer to HIS FRIENDS (each of us), than any person! 🙌🏼✝️💜 Let me say that, sometimes, I succeed, and sometimes, I fail, at being a GOOD FRIEND, and/or, even just being friendly! 😏🙏🏼 My intentions are usually to be, a good friend and/or friendly, but, there are times, whenever, various "things" hinder me from "living up" to my intentions! 😔 Am I the only one who oftentimes "feels" like a failure in this, and, other areas, of life?!  Too many times I "fall short" of, mine and other people's, EXPECTATIONS (perceived and/or real)! 😩🙏🏼 Based on this Scripture, UNFRIENDLY people probably aren't going to have very many FRIENDS!  This thought caused me to thin...

✝️🤓 "IF, you FOCUS on the hurt, you will continue to suffer!  IF, you FOCUS on the LESSON, you WILL continue to GROW!" (thank you - a 'Pinterest' quote!) ❤️🎯😉 The most significant LIFE LESSON, up to this point, in which, I am desperately trying to permanently LEARN, I believe, and, I'll write, would have to be, what I've, observed and experienced, by - applying, and, not applying, the following "suggestive Truth," which, is written in, Shakespeare's 'Hamlet,' which states,..."TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE!" 🎭💆🏻🤔💖 Because, I have, experienced and hopefully learned that, in the past, whenever, I have made decisions to please other people (I realize upon reflection), and/or, for other reasons (thereby deceived), as a result, I, eventually, feel - sad, powerless, frustrated, angry at myself, and the such! 😫😏 Nevertheless, thankfully, I am always comforted by the fact that, God's providential plan - has, is, and shall conti...

💔😩 Just when I "THINK" that (leaning to my own understanding / Proverbs 3:5+6), God has, allowed and/or caused, me to be HUMBLED, as much as is possible, another "humbling - hammer and chisel," deservedly, "hammers down on," and, "chisels away at," me! 🔨⚒😩...For example:  where I currently "find" myself (personally), on my life's journey, is quite uncomfortable, humbling, discouraging, etc., in one sense, nevertheless, "on the other hand," I maintain a constant realization that, I am extremely BLESSED, FAVORED, etc.!  The "humble pie" part of it, causes me to be somewhat frustrated, sometimes (if, I dwell on all of it very long))! 🤔 Unreasonably high expectations (mine and other people's), pride, ego, and the such, also add to my "experience of humbling!" 😕 My injured back, with the chronic pain, physical limitations, and all, is pretty tough for a person who WAS very active, able, etc.), and,...