Invitation to Happiness April 5, 2017 God’s Word is the greatest invitation to happiness that we can ever experience. He tells Isaiah in chapter 55 “Come, buy wine and milk (nourishment) without money (v1); Listen that you may hear (v3); and Call upon Him while He is near (v6).” Jesus tells us through Matthew in 7:1 “Ask,and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened.” All of these take faith that “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways. For as the heavens are higher than the Read More
Day: May 18, 2017
Aspen Groves
Aspen Groves April 4, 2017 I hope you have a great start to your week. Did you know that groves of aspen trees are from the same seed? I learned that a few years ago. Just outside Buena Vista, Colorado, we have the largest single Grove of aspens in the world. What a beautiful joy it is to see when they start changing colors in the fall. Just as God lays their root system underground and dormant sometimes for years, He lays in wait within us until we want Him. God is always with us. He’s known each of us Read More
How we See Ourselves
How We See Ourselves April 1, 2017 Image management & bearing good fruit, what a combination. How do we see ourselves in comparison to how others see us is a really good question. If those two ideas are different, then we become incongruent and find ourselves chasing the other vision. If we really begin to see ourselves as God sees us and has called us to be, then our lives will become more harmonious and free from irritation and distraction. When we begin to see God as the one “who has revealed Himself to us as our source of strength, Read More
I Don’t Know
I Don’t Know March 31, 2017 We are taught to guess if we don’t know the answer to a question, instead of being honest and saying, “I don’t know.” How could we really impact others and ourselves if we stepped up and said, “I don’t know… but I want to, so please teach me.” How different would our kids be if we taught them to think like this, rather than guessing, or worse, being okay with not knowing right or wrong? That would be courageous! What would you say if God told you, “No, I didn’t choose you.”? Would you Read More
Repaying Good for Bad
Repaying Good for Bad March 15, 2017 As I awoke from a dream this morning, I was angry at the person in my dream who treated me with bad customer service. I set out to let his boss know of the problems, and when I had the chance another day to treat him badly in my convenience store I did! What does that do for us, to repay bad for bad? Do we really get satisfaction? We might think so, but we continue to carry that anger, ready to unleash it on someone else. Should we just roll over and Read More
Jesus Loved You First
Jesus Loved You First March 10, 2017 As I read and share this morning, I read 1 Corinthians 13. There, Paul sums up the idea of love. In verse 13, Paul writes, “But now faith, hope, and love remain, but the greatest is love.” I write this morning to tell you Jesus’ loved you first. Before you ever knew Him, He knew you. He said of the commandments, love God first. Then second, “Thou shall love thy neighbor as (you love) yourself, hang everything you do and think on these two ideas.” I give these readings and ideas to you Read More
Empathy
Empathy March 9, 2017 How sweet it is to hear someone say, “I know,” when you have a problem. They know because they have been thru a very similar problem. In the first few weeks of my walk, a sweet lady pulled me aside and told me those very words about the trouble I was going thru. At that moment is when I found that I was in the right place and on the right track to healing. In God’s house there is love, healing, strength, and comfort. David wrote that God knows our words before we can say them, Read More