Inspirations

  The world we live in is crazy!  There are shootings every day. We love new experiences and learning about our world,  but we don't know our neighbor. We preach tolerance but refuse to tolerate those who  think differently than we do.   Disease is rampant in our world. People bit and devour each other in their efforts to get a better place. We marry expecting our spouse to be there, but the first storm hits they run often using kids as pawns to hurt each other.  Yes, this world is a crazy place,  but amidst all the twists and turns and craziness of this world,  I have found a solid rock. One that does not shift or move no matter what happens. God. I lie down at night and sleep in peace. and I can rise in the morning with hope because God is in control. I am thankful that the God I serve is in control,  and he is strong enough to face the fiercest battle and win. Crazy does not bother God. He already knows h...

Thank you, God, for our powerful minds.  Thank you that our thoughts do not control us,  but instead that we can control it.    You graciously give us the ability to think  and choose what we allow to be in our minds.  We can put and give negative things a foothold in our minds.  Or we can,  with your help,  focus on the right and positive in every situation.    Since, our thoughts also shape us,  and we often become what we allow ourselves to dwell on Let us think about what is good and pure excellent and worthy of praise.

For the next few days, I am going to write about some things that we say, but that God will not or does not say.      Figure it out yourself.    Have you ever had someone say that to you?  I have, and I imagine that you have had someone say it to you as well.    For me, it was in school when I didn’t understand a problem or concept.  The teacher would say, figure it out for yourself,  and I was left starring at a blackboard with no idea where to start  or how to finish the problem.  Sometimes at work, they will say,  “Make it happen” this is the adult equivalent of “Figure it out.”    However, or whenever we hear these words,  they leave us frustrated, disappointed, and overwhelmed.  We may even think I don’t know how to figure this out.    The good news is that God doesn’t say, “You figure it out.”  But rather, “I already...

When I first bought our house twenty plus years ago,  we had a relatively large back yard.  Now, however, the yard is much smaller.  Why?  Did I plant trees?  No.  Did I add a pool or pond?  Nope.  I didn’t even make a pretty Garden.  So, what did happen?  Well, about thirteen years ago, I took a job in a local store.  I worked much of the time,  and so mowing the lawn became everyone’s job.  The problem is that when other’s mow, they don’t like to mow the corners.  It was a small thing, and at the time, it wasn’t worth the fight, so I let it go.   As I was looking at our yard,  I realized that all those years  of not mowing the corners had taken its toll.   What I’m understanding is that it is incredibly easy to give up the edges,  but it’s super hard to take back the corners....

I confess, sometimes I feel overwhelmed and helpless.  When I was in school and I could not understand the new concept that everyone else seemed to know, or when I was a new mother trying to do everything right for this new life that had been entrusted to me.  Later when my children would ask questions for which I had no answers.  Why did grandpa die?  Or Why am I here? And lately, when I look at the state of the nation and world.  I see perspective presidents and cringe and or get violently ill (not an exaggeration), and I feel helpless. One candidate is nothing more than a public spectacle another is s liar who will do whatever it takes to get the power they want. Yes, there are other prospective candidates out there, but the front runners scare me. As I was dwelling on this, feelings of desperation and despair started sweeping over me.  I could not help feeling a little like Elijah hiding in a cave feeling like I am the only one left wh...