Hey Family,

It’s been a long time since we’ve talked…I’ve lost some things and some people in my life, and I have gained some things as well. You never know how precious the time you have with people until they’re gone. No one can understand your grief until they have experience that pain for themselves. It’s been a year and 8 months since I lost my father-in-law and one year 7 months since my Mom passed. But through it all God has kept me.

I wanted to talk to you about Higher Learning..not the kind that deals with worldly education, but with Spiritual Education. So, the past couple of months I’ve been on a cleaning crusade. Storing things, reorganizing some things and discarding some things. I have misplaced some items in my house and I couldn’t seem to find them, particularly in my kitchen. The place that means the most to me. This is my favorite room in my house.

Some lids were missing on containers and I seemed to have looked everywhere! One Saturday I was putting away some left overs, and I decided to search the top cabinets.  I dreaded the fact that I’d have to get my step ladder, because it’s so cumbersome, and I admit it…I am lazy…(pray for me)..But, I was committed to this “cleaning crusade”. So as I started to climb up, I began to find all the lost lids that I’d been missing, as I got higher on the step, I found even more items that I needed; items that had been missing for weeks… Suddenly it tugged at my spirit; God was telling me “Daughter, some things are worth the struggle to find..” when I looked upwards instead of around, I found more… I’ve been searching in the wrong places for the things I needed… God reconnected me to him when I began seeking higher, stepping higher…If I stay in his word, study more, pray more, listen without speaking more…I’ll find my missing lid..

So when you aren’t sure, aren’t confident in where you’re going…Find your stepladder, and seek Higher Learning…in God. Be Blessed!!