Mindset

How do you remember God's love working in the world even when you can't see it?!   Wow!  That is a big question! We all see the world.  We see the "minor-major" things happening within our homes.  We see the big issues broadcast on the news.  We see the "acceptable" issues in sitcoms and movies and music.  We see it!  If you walk this Earth, you see it.  Even if you try to mind your own business and look the other way and try not to notice.  Even if you don't want to see it, you do.   So what then?!  Where is God's love in that?  Where is the work of our Father?  When we don't see it, is it there? I don't know what you believe as you read this but I stand with a faith that surpasses the trials of this earth.   And why do I believe that when it seems the world is just falling apart?  Cause the Bible tells me so.  That simple line from my childhood Sunday school song.  Jesus...

A few days ago I wrote a small little post on here after reading Luke 5. I bring it up to you again cause when I asked my husband if he read it and whether he wanted to correct me on anything, he responded by asking if I had wrote it.  Ladies, this could have gone totally bad. But I CHOSE to talk to him. I am not offended by his question.  Yes, I did write the words typed here a few days ago. But I also confessed to him that it wasn't all just natural thoughts I came up with myself. I had read God's Word which had been hooked to a devotional and I was helping get my thoughts together to lead and teach a group of young girls in my house in a few days. I tell you all that to also say the words I typed were from my heart but fueled and created by God. Fueled by what I was reading. Today as I sat reading in Psalms, I couldn't help but be reminded of our choice to sit in God's word. Our choice to have faith in His promises and precepts. Our choice to talk with Hi...

In reading Luke 5, I come across this verse  "But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed"  and it made me stop. I have felt the rush and desire to be alone before. When kids are pulling at ya. When you feel the passion to scream if you hear the word MOM one more time. The physical desire. The physical pull. The exhaustion. I can't help but read the verse again and really look at Jesus' desire here. Was it physical? Was it annoyance? Was it "self care"? I t ruly do not think it was. It was spiritual. He withdrew to reconnect to his Father. Did he ever really UN connect from his Father? Well, no. But Jesus knew the importance of prayer and communicating with His Father. He was living a life fully submitted to the Father. A oneness. And yet he took the time to get away and be alone with His Father. Even with his "to-do list" UNfinished!! (verse 15) This is our example. My physical screams of frustration and annoyance and irrita...