We are so tiny

Looking at the devastation from Tsunami in Japan. Such power to just sweep away anything in its path. I think this is so humbling to know just how tiny we are. God is so powerful and our minds are so small. Lord I say yes to all you offer, to all you require, to all you choose. Our minds have been trained by this world and it is so hard to keep it focused on you at all times. Thank you for your ways which bring me back to you. Thank you for your love which continues to wait on me. Take me from this world before I ever choose to turn for you. The same for my children Lord, I would rather they be called home by You than lost to the world of death. My love and faith in you increase everyday, I think I may be a fruit loop but may I remain a fruit loop until the end. Continue protecting me Father, continue calling yours home. It hurts to see them turn their backs, it hurts to see them choose the deception, so many or fooled. I trust your ways, your plan, your will. According to your word I do not need to understand, I just need to continue focusing on your instructions. Your word I have hid in my heart so that I may not sin against you psalm 119. Lord I pray for the violent acts that have entered into my family to TEACH them, to open their eyes!! May they choose YOU!! May you continue to knock until they answer..... not matter how painful, it is much worse to stay lost for eternity.. Today I am grateful for hardship, struggle, tragedy, and pain!!

Tragedy

Real tragedy is not learning or seeking God when terrible things happen. I am sad this morning as I think of one who was beat by his father and brother. How much anger it must have taken to break the face of their loved one. Where is the love? Has it been hidden by so much disappointment, shame, jealousy?? The evil feelings cannot be hidden forever and apparently the evil one feeds them to a point of erruption. So then, maybe we should feed our soul the sweetness of our Lord. Daily doses of his love and forgiveness. Seeking Him to guide our path. Ask Him to show our true purpose and worth. By feeding love the hate is dissolved. The most powerful in us is the ONE we feed!! Feed the evil reap the evil. Feed the love and love you shall share!!

With Gratitude comes Joy

Having so much to be grateful for yet forgetting to acknowledge it. How often we complain and seek something other than what we have been given? How often we want things to be different from what they are. Today I spend time being appreciative for the many blessings God has sent my way and thankful for how much worse it could have turned out. Lord help me to always seek You in everything. To always be grateful and satisfied with what You have sent and asking nothing more!!

Gifts of the day

Today I have the choice to complain, judge or be grateful. Since I don't deserve God's grace and He chose to bless me with it anyway, I am grateful. Instead of focusing on ifs, ands or buts I focus on what is. Today marks the day before Ash Wednesday. By this time Jesus was baptized and knew His calling from God. He is preparing to enter the wilderness for time to pray and prepare. This is his time of temptation, may we learn by his faith how to use our faith until the very end.

entering the wilderness

I think of Jesus going into the wilderness to prepare for his calling in life and being tempted by Satan. With this in mind I am reminded how Satan tempts us daily with lies, greed, envy, fear, anger, control, dissatisfaction, ungratefulness and lack of faith. I am also reminded how God loves us and protects us, for it is by His grace that we are saved, through faith. May we ask God to open our eyes to see His worth and become so mindful of His goodness that we thank him daily.

Also thinking of my calling in this life as I enter these 40 days of contemplation. Lord guide me on the path directly towards you. May I always remember to seek you alone and go directly to your word when unsure. The more I read your word the more I trust and recognize you. Continue to teach me your ways and fill me with your love and compassion. May I love all with your love. May I see everything with gratitude!!
Protect your people on the roads and streets tonight, keeping them safe. I pray for the lost who are searching the world for happiness, Lord plant your seed of faith and grace.

God's spirit flows through an open heart

As long as the heart is not sealed closed there is space for the spirit of God to flow through, for His love to bust open the seams (openness to accept the destruction of the outerselves). Only after accepting and welcoming the ideals of life that have been destroyed can I welcome the true real purpose of what IS.

As the skin of the grapefruit are bitter
and the layers of onion need peeling
so does the sinful nature of ourselves
As Lord peels away the bitterness
we taste His sweetness
Without the skin of the fruit
or the shell of the nut
they would not produce good meat
The need shelter while they mature
Without the sun and the rain
they would not grow and produce

Cup of Grace

I am thinking back to all those special moments of divine grace that have brought me much joy. I realize they came after expressing a grateful heart, Oozing with love, peace, fulfillment and thankful for ALL that got me to that place. All including the tough knocks that dropped me to my knees. Those great times of darkness and struggles through the valley. Feeling so blessed that He patiently waited as I crossed over to the land of milk and honey. Feeling complete awe as He showed me His presence through it all. How the Kingdom of God is here, within me. How His Glory is shown to those who love and trust Him. The more I trusted, the less proof I needed and the more He gave!!!!! Feeling the absoute most fulfilled, enlightened, open hearted, grateful for all, healed and WHOLE as I get in my car entering the interstate, smiling, praising God for all that is and needing absolutely nothing and what do I see? The odometer on my car reads 77777 and the other gauges are reading completely full, beyond the normal averages, I blink my eyes and look again and all I can do is smile, LOL at how awesome and giving my Lord is. Later that week as I am reading my bible I am reminded of the biblical meaning of 7, COMPLETE, WHOLE!!!!!! He confirms what I know has already happened. I have been made whole, healed and complete through Christ. The seed planted has brought new life. I have died to live. A new journey has begun, I now know what it feels like to want to live!!!! I don't recall ever feeling this, I have begged to die for so long and overcome by the guilt of feeling ungrateful for life. I beg for forgiveness for wanting the easy way out, I just wanted to meet my Lord, my all, my everything that mattered to me.