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Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life

(Nehemiah 8:10) “The Joy Of The Lord, Is Your Strength.”

(Proverbs 17:22) “A Merry Heart Does Good, Like Medicine, But A Broken Spirit Dries The Bones.”

Author: Patricia Aman
March 28, 2018

I tell everyone I was born a Louisiana Cajun with a little spice.
Raised as a Georgia Peach so I would be a little sweet and nice.
But I married a North Carolina Tarheel who made my life just right.
So, I guess you can say, “She is a little bit of everything.”

I pray that each of you enjoy this testimony book. You will read devotional messages, poems, and even a few spicy recipes. You will soon find out that in the book I just talk directly about life and the ministry that God has allowed my husband Joe and I to honor Him.

I am just like many of you. Some days are just wonderful, and some days, I want to go back to bed. Some days just like you my devotion time may have been short. Some days it might have been longer. I think it all comes down to how much time do you spend with God and His Word.

I have been preaching and sharing God’s Word since I was ten years old. I could write this book telling you how to solve all you daily cares and concerns, but, it really would be unfair to you. So, I am just sharing daily things I have gone through, and how when I allowed God to handle them, things were a lot better.

Through these devotionals I pray you will find out that in having an intimate relationship with our Heavenly Father, daily, helps us in our growth and walk.
It makes those good days better, and those not so good days, so much easier to handle, because we learn that if we let God handle them, everything will be alright.

Maybe I can share a few things that will help you in your daily walk.

I dedicate this book to God first and foremost. Then to my husband Joe and our daughters Tara and Anna. And to my son-in-law Will who has been a blessing to our lives. Without their encouragement, I would have never been able to bring to each of you just a few of the 3000 devotions that I have written since, 1986.

All scriptures are taken from the NKJB, unless noted.
“Que le bon Dieu vous benit”
“May the good Lord bless you”

Discombobulated
Author: Pat Aman October 14, 1996

Well, all I can say is when I finish this devotion, you will think that I need to go to a doctor for sure.

I was watching the end of a “Tammy” movie today. If you are my age or older, which we will not go there, today. But if you are you will remember the movies, Tammy and the Doctor, Tammy and the Millionaire, Tammy and the Professor.

Tammy was a young lady raised on a river boat by her grandfather. Schoolin as they called it, was not in grammar. But I soon found out she was smarter than I thought.

She said a word in the movie today that caught my attention. She said, “Lordy, I am just discombobulated”. Why this caught my attention beats me. Maybe I need to get out more.

I knew right off that Mr. Webster would not have the definition to this word, but I decided to look it up anyway. I found discontinued, discontent, discomfort, huh, discomfort, and then suddenly there is was discombobulated. The Merriam-Webster had the word, meaning upset, confused, or etc.

Anyway, a thought came to my mind. I can see myself going to the doctor and as you know they come in reading your chart. Not really listening to you. But they say, what seems to be your problem today?

Well, Doc. I am discombobulated. He looks at me out of the corner of his eye, as he pulls his palm pilot medical dictionary out of this pocket and proceeds to look up discombobulated.

I am guessing that this word is not in his medical palm pilot. He says, ” We need to run some test, or maybe see a specialist, or you can go home take two aspirins and call me in two days, if symptoms do not go away.”

I am thinking Specialist, then I can use my novel word again.

So, he sends me to a specialist who looks at me funny when I tell him I am discombobulated. He checks me out and says, “I will send a report to your doctor in a few days. Until then go home and take two aspirins and call your local doctor is symptoms get worse.

Well, anyway by now I realized that I could have saved a lot of time and money, if I had just stayed home and taken two aspirins.

As I finished watching the movie, Tammy gives the definition for discombobulated. She says, again, ” I am just so discombobulated, just like a short dog in tall grass.”

I laugh at myself, and say thank you Lord, for letting me catch the trivial things you send my way to make me laugh.

So, whatever you are discombobulated about, I hope this put a smile on your face and laughter in your heart.

Proverbs 17:22 says, “A merry heart does good, like medicine. But a broken spirit dries the bones.”

Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV)
3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Isaiah 40:28 (NKJV)
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2021 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” “Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life” and Westbow Press a division of Thomas Nelson and Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910976……….