Know Your Role

Good morning and happy Friday. A thought that occurred to me the other day as I was getting ready to do a study on Joseph, the Earthly father of Jesus. Most of my life hearing the Christmas story it's seems to have been about Mary and Jesus. What if it was Joseph God was choosing? What if it was Joseph He wanted to raise His son? I believe it was both but why do we forget that God uses and chooses everyone. We have all been called to a part of the great plan of God. We don't hear much from Joseph or about him at all, but from the bits and pieces we know he was a good man and did a good job of raising up the Son of Man. He knew His part in this plan and followed God's instruction to the T. This story so fits with us today as we are called to do His work here.  God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. That means what He was doing then is what He is doing now. Miracles still happen, the unexplainable still is seen. Why do we doubt He is using us for a greater good today and tomorrow. Our part doesn't have to be the headliner, but play the part we have to the best of our ability. In love always. <><

The End

Good morning and happy Thursday. The world is ending in 12/12. Are you ready?  Predictions of the end have been going since Jesus said it would be like a thief in the night. None of that stuff has ever bothered me until now. Now I know I can't wait. Before I was lost and not headed for a heavenly home. Now I know the difference and not afraid of the end, whenever it may come. So many people and so much time has been and is being spent trying to predict the end. What will it matter when it comes anyway, it's the end?  What are we doing in the mean time? If we are Christians as we say, we should be about the Fathers work. If you're not a Christian, aren't you still wasting your time trying to find the end only to find it's here? If you knew when, what would you do different from now til then?  Why aren't you doing that now? What if tomorrow is the end? What if it's the guy next you on the planes turn to go so you the whole thing goes down? Just kidding. All this becomes stupid after a while doesn't it? But it will come, and you will be held accountable for your time here on this Earth. Make it good from this moment on. Live today forward with no regrets. It's never too late to make a change. In love always. <><

Leaving Eden

Good morning and happy Wednesday. Have you wondered what Adam and Eve thought and felt like after being kicked out of the Garden? To know what it is supposed to be like? To be in the presence of God and to talk with Him? I don't know if they were able to remember what that was like, but I bet they felt like something was missing. Gee, that sounds familiar. They could not have known the full magnitude of what they had done and brought into the world because their world was just them, but when Cain came along, I wonder how they felt about their actions now effecting their child. They did know one thing for sure, they knew they were children of God. And to know and understand what that means is paramount to a deep relationship with Him and His Son who died for us to get a way back to Eden. It will all come full circle one day. Are you ready to go home? To go back to where we belong? To walk with our Father once again as He meant for us to? Then we have to get to that place where we won't be kicked out. in love always. <><

True Happiness In Him

Good morning and happy Tuesday.  How happy are you? Is it really a happy Tuesday? Maybe not for some. But in the grand scheme of it all, the big picture, it will pass and happiness will come again. Most people are happy more than sad, but we dwell and hang onto the sadness in our lives. Once we reach that point, it takes over everything. So if we're happy most of the time, why hasn't that taken over everything? True happiness comes from a love of Jesus Christ. And if that takes over our lives, we will be living a very positive one. Sure, even Jesus was sad, but it didn't consume Him. His purpose was the work of the Father, not dwelling on a moment in time. It was important to Him and He felt it and He dealt with it. But a greater issue is at hand for Him and all of us. In our grief we will find God, because He knows we need Him. It's after our grief where we usually lose it. We're ok and back on our feet and we can do it. Wrong. We can do nothing apart from Him. We have to learn to live for Him and not ourselves. This is a life lesson Jesus came to live as the example for. Follow it to true happiness. In love always. <><

Lean Into Him

Good morning and happy Monday. Sorry I'm late. Sorry I couldn't make it. Sorry I didn't call. Sorry I didn't come by. We've heard and said them all. Sometimes, it's absolutely true, the excuses we have and make to one another for the smallest of things. Sometimes it just can't be helped and there's just no way of making it up. This has been one of the most hectic and busiest week and weekend I've had in a long time. And it was all the stuff we've put off for the last two weeks trying to catch up from the weeks before that. Satan won this weekend. He wore me out to a point I let my frustration out, not bad, but not right. Realizing the battle is at hand is a big part of our success as Christians. Knowing that our eternity is at stake should have us so leaned into Jesus we become one with Him. I have not done that in a while and it has shown up. God forgive me for stepping out on my own apart from you. Thank you that the damage I caused was minimal on the large scale but huge in my own. Thank you for your grace and mercy in dealing with my stupidity. No excuses, no more. Thank you for guiding me back to you so gently. I love you and give you all the glory for all you've done for me. I will stay strong for the battle and not be caught off guard again. In love always. <><