Your Story Is Not Over.

     For the past two days I have basically been trying to get the hang of this whole graphics thing. It may look easy, but it is NOT.  Especially since I compare my work to someone who actually went to school for graphic design. Yesterday I made 4 different quote graphics and wasn't completely sure about any of them. I guess it has gotten to the point, instead of trusting my gut I am trying to please people. Hoping that people would share and like them, so maybe more people would like the page.  Not as an ego thing but apparently Facebook has this quacky way of displaying posts. From what I have read, when you first make a post, they only show it too a couple of friends and if those people do not click it or like it, then it pretty much stalls the post completely. Yay. (not) So who knows if the people that really need to see it are seeing it? Not me and definitely not Facebook. So here I am trusting God and pretty much determining my success by my people reached. (how many people have seen it) Of course, it is aggravating, but it is making me take this much more serious. I am spending more time on them and researching much more.
     As in the case of everything, it has its ups and downs. One the up days, I am feeling good and successful. Finally I am getting something done for God, oh yeah. I am optimistic and hopeful and every other good emotion you can think of. Ain't no clouds in my sky.
     Then the bad days come. You can't even remember what it was even like to feel optimistic. Everything is sad and miserable and yucky, just awful.
     Then, if I let it, hope comes on the scene. Hope arrives and tells me that tomorrow will be better. Hope gives me the strength to get through the bad days and hopefully I remember the bad days during my good days, then conclude that this is pretty normal. And I don't have to let the bad or the good days control my life! I can stop right at that second and not determine my happiness by the success of my day or by people's approval. I can stop and realize that God has already approved of me.
     He approved of me 2000 years ago and I can be sure he knows about "ups and downs".
I mean this is the same guy who this happened too

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  A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. ⁹ The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,

“Hosanna to the Son of David!”

“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!^"

“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

¹⁰ When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”

¹¹ The crowds answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
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     And then a week later, his friends had left him, he was beaten, mocked, and hated. Then murdered. Thankfully that is Not the end of the story. He died, but he arose. So he went from good to seemingly bad to good again. He understands the hopelessness and the pain.
      The story is not over for me or you. Jesus died so you could, I could, we could, have hope.

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