If you think about it, there is much beauty, manmade beauty that we can buy on this earth. Beautiful homes, cars, paintings etc. all are plentiful and adored. All of this however, is just stuff. It is stuff we think somehow will satisfy. TRUE BEAUTY CAN ONLY BE BOUGHT WITH ATTENTION. It’s our attention and … More TRUE BEAUTY CAN ONLY BE BOUGHT WITH ATTENTION!
If the call to love others and to serve them is a burden to you, then you really are living for you and not for JESUS. We were bought with a precious price. The Cross is proof. JESUS sacrificed it all……..all for us to live out our lives for HIM. DON’T LIVE AS YOUR OWN……..LIVE … More LIVE AS IF CHRIST OWNS YOU
I seem to have an issue lately, I have somehow learned to hit the delete key on my laptop and so I had this post completely done, and then I deleted it! Whenever this happens I figure satan isn’t happy with what I am saying here…….and so I press on. Forgive me that this is … More LET YOUR LIFE BE A GENUINE HOSANNA
Be still and linger a little longer this season. Because this season is filled with HIS hope and HIS light. Don’t deny the dark, look for the light. Don’t deny the chaos, look for CHRIST’S peace. Because HIS peace is there……..born there, in that stable long ago. LINGER TODAY IN FRONT OF THAT STABLE The … More LET’S LINGER
Especially at Christmastime…….GOD sent the gift to us here on earth and it not only is the greatest gift ever given, but it’s the greatest story ever told and the greatest grace you will ever experience. EMMANUEL………GOD IS WITH US! Thousands of years ago……..on that starry night an even brighter star showed the way for … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
Often times I try to put into words here how GOD has touched me. But I find in my search for words that sometimes there just are no words. I know in my heart I cannot put GOD into a box to explain HIM. Oh yes we have human words to use, words on a … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
HIS glory begins just there……..in a glance. It is just a glance away, do you see it? HIS glory reigns from the sky above us to the ground under our feet. His glory is within each of us as HE remakes us and transforms us slowly into HIS glorious image! HIS GLORY IS JUST A … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
If you are discouraged this morning or disheartened, sad or disillusioned, then know this dear reader: EPHESIANS 2: 4 “BUT GOD BEING RICH IN MERCY, BECAUSE OF THE GREAT LOVE WITH WHICH HE LOVED US, EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN OUR TRESPASSES, MADE US ALIVE TOGETHER WITH CHRIST – BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN … More GRACE LETS YOU HAVE IT ALL!
In this new neighborhood where we just moved to there are benches throughout strategically placed on paths and around tennis courts, the pool and even overlooking a putting green. I have always had a soft spot in my heart for a bench. I am drawn to them because they are inviting you to sit and … More BEAUTY AND A BENCH
We don’t see all things the way GOD does. We only have a limited understanding of our world around us. We learn and grow by what we see and hear. But GOD is working in the spiritual realm, all for our benefit: 2 CORINTHIANS 4: 18 “…….AS WE LOOK NOT TO THE THINGS THAT ARE … More OUR LIMITED UNDERSTANDING
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