GRACE CHATTER

How do I start? HAPPY NEW YEAR AND GRAB YOUR FAVORITE TEA CUP WHILE YOU’RE AT IT! How you feeling? Are you eating ok? Have you talked to someone about it yet? Have you let the people go you should have last year? Well I hope you’re doing better than last year. Let me tell y’all it’s been real and I’ve been disobedient y’all. I know, I know Tia has been disobedient or should I say I’ve let doubt come in. I don’t even want to look back on the last post I’ve written but *insert Sam Cooke* it’s been a long time coming, but I know change is gonna come. I’ve had blogs I’ve been sitting on and distraction sat in on me y’all. Everything to distract me from my assignment came, Chile and I know better. So pray for me as I pray for everyone that reads this.

Well you know how we get down over here, let’s get real….So y’all I’ve been to my hometown twice in March on two separate occasions. 1 to take care of some business at our rental properties and the 2nd trip originally was for Jesus Girl Sleepover but turned God made it happen where I could attend TT Esteria home going ceremony. It’s been a busy month but great visit to see some of our loved ones (friends/church families) and parents. On our way to the airport it was clear not a cloud present in the sky. I have this habit once I am preparing to travel from Georgia I check the weather of my destination, but I only check that one time. I never look again to check the weather, why, because God will do what He want with the weather. So, we make it to the airport, had dinner there and hung out at our gate until we boarded. As we are in line waiting to board, I noticed our board time kept getting pushed back a few minutes. It’s not much, but when you’re ready to board, you are ready to get settled. So it’s now 15 minutes or so, now we are ready to board our flight. I find my seat and settle down, the flight attendants let us know that this will be a light flight with only 67 of us on board headed back to Georgia. You know what that mean, let me get this row to myself. I put my headphones on and get the window seat of course. Then I remembered, Lord I did not pray, let me pray. The family group chat sends their prayers, we are all good. As the attendants are going through their instructions, I noticed it started to sprinkle then turn into full thunderstorm within 5 minutes. Then boom, the one thing I’d never thought I’d want to hear on a plane EVERY IPHONE ON THE PLANE WENT OFF WITH AN ALERT! Mc-Excuse me!!! Everyone phone went off but mine….something told me it was a tornado warning. Now why would this happen with me on the plane and I don’t want to text the group chat because I didn’t want them to worry. So I kept it pushing and kept my phone on airplane mode.

If the pilot isn’t panicking, let me chill. If God is not telling me to run off, let me chill. So we began departure. As we are taking off it was ROCKY MOUNTAIN you hear me! Thought I was on the Ninja at St. Louis Six Flags. The only thing I could do was pray, Lord I trust you. I trust you that you will bless us to make it home safe. You have shared to many dreams and I still have to birth purpose, this ain’t even near the time for to go out like this ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU’RE FLYING THE PLANE. As we continue to ascend, God just kept saying once I get above the clouds you’ll be fine. I am going to get you above the clouds, once you’re there everything below you doesn’t matter. The more we ascend the plane got bumpier and bumpier. All I kept hearing was get through this rough patch. Wow right. We finally ascended above the first layer of clouds that was dark, and bumpy to now its full sunlight. With it being 7ish o’clock, it’s already turning dark, but once we broke through the clouds y’all it was lit up. 

God was doing His big one with me on that plane. By keeping my focus on Him I had no room to panic. By keeping my trust on Him, there was no room to worry about what’s going on below us. By keeping my focus on Him there was no thought of was that a real tornado? Or How close were we? Nothing mattered once we broke through to the next level. Honeyyyyy when the Word of God says, You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Isaiah 26:3 NLT because had I sat and fed into my thought’s I probably would’ve been banned from every airline because of panic. But as we continue to fly, God just continued to minister to my heart. You see how temporary was the turbulence. The Turbulence was not the entire flight, we just had to break through the rough patch to get on the other side. Chatter babies, it’s been a real long year for me, but on the other side of this I believe it’s going to be lit, the way the sun was lit on the other side of the clouds. In order to get there takes trust, takes faith, takes standing on God’s Word, standing on God’s promises to get to the other side. If he said it, hold on to it. If it looks dark full of uncertainty right now, in due time it’s going to be lit.

I am so thankful not only that we landed safely, but that through the storm God revealed Himself. That small moment is sometimes what you need to keep holding on. This journey we are on with Christ is a Faith Flight on a Boeing Plane 777. Now that’s a flight that I am willing to take any chance I get, but before you join this flight are you ready for potential turbulence that could take place? The different weather conditions that we may have to fly in or through. This flight requires faith that God will protect, supply, direct, lead and guide you, it’s up to you to believe that after this the SON light will shine. Y’all so the next morning, I then discovered that there indeed was a tornado that touched down in Chesterfield heading in the direction of the airport. BUT GOD!!!! No matter what was going on below or should I say behind me, I couldn’t worry about that because looking to the hills or should I say the clouds which cometh my help!!! My helper was flying the plane that night and was not concerned about a Tornado. Faith Flight landed safe and sound with a greater revelation of how God loves me.

I hope this blesses you! I hope your faith is increased, to TRUST IN THE LORD GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART. No matter what storm you’re going through it’s temporary. No matter what it is, hold on to God’s promises for they are yes and Amen!

Love you and I hope this helped you gracefully for today!