JANUARY 2012

That I am a mom is the singular reason I am who I am and do all that I do…
it’s the one purpose my heart could hang on to amidst any storm… it’s the light at the end of every tunnel.

It’s my job to not only be the best version of me for the sake of my kids… but it’s my job to strive to be better, to try harder, to show them that I am not satisfied with the status quo, but that I want better - deserve better… (and to help others who want the same thing).

To show my kids that no matter what happens in life, there is absolutely a way to rise above… to move past… to demand life! ♥ xoxo ♥

"Remain in me, and I will remain in you."

Do not remember past events, pay no attention to things of old.
Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18-19

My resolution: to look FORWARD! :)

I pick myself up off the floor to show you that it's possible - I fight my battles so that you will fight yours ♥ Get UP! get up get up eyes up GET UP! ♥

- indecision IS a decision -

Everything we do matters, and everything we don't do. Today, we move with intention.

We cannot know the heart intentions of another human being (regardless of their actions). That said, it is NOT our place to impose on another person OUR perception of their will nor their destiny.
We don't have the luxury of giving up on people.
It IS, however, our job to have compassion... toward ALL. To me, this means I'm going to BELIEVE in something BETTER for you... especially if you don't.
And to show this to be true, I'm going to BELIEVE in something better for me.

I invite Him to come in and wreck my life daily... consider it done. I pray I don't get distracted and He cancels everything I had planned. He burns thru to my core - and I just learned the meaning of GLAD! :)

I give Him my todays and TAKE ACTION to own my tomorrows!

Lord, keep me in Your warm embrace... For only there can I fully rest my head ♥

We often don't realize that we're healing until we're half-way there... :)

Lord, teach me that I don't have to be perfect to earn Your love, but that You already love me more than I can understand...

Jeremiah 1:5 "before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart;"...29:11-14 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will come upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back from captivity."

Believing in the Voice of Truth ♥

Romans 6:6-8
...Amen

"We know very well that we are not set right with God by rule-keeping but only through personal faith in Jesus Christ. How do we know? We tried it-and we had the best system of rules the world has ever seen! Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement, we believed in Jesus as the Messiah so that we might be set right before God by trusting in the Messiah, not by trying to be good." Galatians 2:16

I know enough to know that I don't know enough... So I turn to You to guide my steps in this moment and the next... In Jesus, my Comfort.

"So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don't give up, or quit.  Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith." Galatians 6:9-10

HOPE is an action word

Constantly seeking a first-hand love with God rather than a second-hand understanding

Remove my flesh from the equation-every day, and cover me-clothe me-with Your Spirit, Lord I pray...

What if you are the miracle you've been waiting to see...?

I abandon my rules and yours so that I can live life on God's terms... In Jesus name, reveal to me where I still hold on too tight to my own set of rules... Let me know the freedom You have called me to have through You.

The sun doesn't stop shining...ever, the clouds just get in the way.
Lord, help me to see that your light shines always in me.

God is not here at our discretion... we are here at His.

I stand stronger on my knees ♥ in Jesus name

I will praise You in the wind and the rain, I will praise You when it's dark outside and I cannot see... for You are my eyes, You guide my feet and You always lead me straight to You ♥

I cannot save myself. I did not make me, therefore I cannot save me.
God loved me before I was born. God loved me when I was the most awful I could be. God loves me when I wake and when I close my eyes... and even when I fall.
By His love I am saved. I am precious in His sight. His love keeps me... in Jesus name.

...my journey has absolutely nothing to do with me:)

Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn't talk back to the fingers that mold it, saying, "Why did you shape me like this?" Isn't it obvious that a potter has a perfect right to shape one lump of clay into a vase for holding flowers and another into a pot for cooking beans?
Romans 9:20-21 (MSG)
God's plan, God's timing is perfect in EVERY way! I embrace the "shape" in which God made me with EXCITEMENT and LOOK FORWARD to being used in any way that brings GLORY to Him!

I can hardly wait to continue on my course. I don't expect to be embarrassed in the least. On the contrary, everything happening to me in this jail only serves to make Christ more accurately known, regardless of whether I live or die. They didn't shut me up; they gave me a pulpit! Alive, I'm Christ's messenger; dead, I'm his bounty. Life versus even more life! I can't lose.
Phil 1:20-21 (MSG)
Now, there's no room for frustration, no room for self-pity, or even ego... anything and everything that comes my way brings either life or life! Praise God! ♥

Phil 1:29

Discernment

Matthew 5:3-12

I think I have lost MY way... BUT WAIT! My way IS the lost way. Only in HIS Way am I found. Only in His Way can I be all that I'm destined to be - all that He's called me to be!
Only when my way becomes His Way... ♥

Lord,
Make me more and more sensitive to you with each moment! Shape me, mold me, design me with Your Love... let me run into Your Grace... fill me with Your Spirit... show me where I still hold on too tight so that I can let it go to You - so that You can make me new! I run home to You, Lord Jesus... I dwell in Your Love!  in Jesus Name...

My ideas and good intentions are nothing without God's Spirit - Lord FILL me with all of you so that the good in me SHINES of the Goodness in You!

"Become the kind of container God can use to present any and every kind of gift to his guests for their blessing."
2 Timothy 2:21 (MSG)

What if you made a decision today that positively changed the direction of your life?
You know what you need to do... I BELIEVE IN YOU!

The moment I realize that it is NOT about me, it is NOT about my life or my struggles... but rather ALL the people around me and how God through me - can positively impact their day, their moment... it is THEN that I am truly blessed ♥

Wake UP! there is SO much GOOD NEWS! ♥