Time 4 You 2 Shine

Talking about forgiveness this week has brought a song to my mind that Chris Tomlin sings, entitled: You Are My King I’m forgiven because you were forsaken I’m accepted, you were condemned I’m alive and well Your spirit is within me Because you died and rose again Amazing love, how can it be? That you, my king. would die for me Amazing love, I know it’s true Its my joy to honor you Amazing love…

Forgive and forget...if only it was that easy...

Forgive and Forget…if only it was that easy. Forgiveness is more challenging than anyone one of us would want. When you are dealing with children and you one does another wrong you have the child who did the wrong say, “I’m sorry.” and the other child say, “I forgive you.” Then you maybe have them shake hands or hug and go off to play like nothing happened. Sometimes one may still pout a little,…

Just keep running...

Hebrews 12:1 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” This past summer I had the privilege of attending a swim meet for some of my youth kids. I had so much fun watching all these children from little 5 and 6 year olds up…

You have been planted like a tree...

A trial or struggle is not looked at as a positive thing. Distress and turmoil is something we have been trained is bad and shouldn’t happen- yet, despite all the ways we try to get around it, trouble finds us. I assume that since everyone reading this is a flesh and blood human, that when difficulty comes there are times you feel weakened, worn out and weary. Here’s an “aha” moment for you……

Finding God and peace in the stillness.

Psalms 23 has a verse that we often forget to add into our daily schedule. It talks about how God leads us to the still waters and he restores our souls. Then later on in Psalms 46 there is another verse that speaks about being still with God. Psalms 23:2 “He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.” Psalms 46:10a “Be still, and know that I am God.”   God likes…

Take up your cross daily and follow Jesus

Lately I’ve been hearing from quite a few people about some of the struggles they’ve been going through and I’ve been asking  Lord for some encouragement. But instead everything that I’ve seen that should be encouraging has actually had the opposite affect! Oh- how annoying! grrrrrr… To top it off when I read an article or hear someone talking on the  radio… all I can think is…they are doing this…

Live for today Part 2

The second thing I have learned about redeeming the time I have and living life to the fullest each day is….. 2.  Making time to take a time out- yes…that was a mouthful but I did mean to write it that way. If you’re like me, you get so busy at times that you if breathing wasn’t a natural thing you’d forget to do it! Taking a breather can work wonders for your energy, mood, attitude and your…

I live for today

I have heard it more times than I can count and honestly I get tired of hearing it: You’re so young, you have so many years ahead of you! My sister has a look that shows exactly how I feel when I hear that…. To me, it doesn’t matter how old, or young you are. Life should never be viewed in the context that “I have plenty of time”. Let’s face it- how many of you thought you had plenty of time but…