I recently wrote an email to a good friend of mine, talking about how I am always waiting lately for the "other shoe to drop" on me. It is like having one awful thing hit me and then another. She said not to look for that shoe, and that it will be okay, if I just look up and be positive. This is what I wrote her:

"I am trying not to look for that shoe. I am lately trying instead to look for the shield that GOD gave me when I was reborn as a Christian. He promised that it would help in the times when the shoe dropped hard. He said that it would make things seem better because it carries the Hope of Eternity. But I seem to have misplaced it..."

When I read back over what I had written to her, I wanted to post that here ... 1.) For someone who might need to see it, and 2.) So that I can look back later and remember my faith. Maybe at another time when I need it.