Who told you you were naked? Genesis 3:11
I want to live in that being known. Write from a place of nothing hidden. Knowing His heart is broken and yet He still loves.
I pray 2013 to follow wherever it is He leads, for all who know this GRACE
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Friday, July 27, 2012
If
If you call yourself a Christian I hope you are a Christ follower.
If you are a Christ follower I hope you know you are a Disciple
I hope you know Disciple ultimately means you are a learner
I hope you are learning from His Word and being humbly obedient to what you are learning
I hope you know what you are following so you know where it is you are leading
And I hope you know you are leading
I hope I am learning all this myself
If you are a Christ follower I hope you know you are a Disciple
I hope you know Disciple ultimately means you are a learner
I hope you are learning from His Word and being humbly obedient to what you are learning
I hope you know what you are following so you know where it is you are leading
And I hope you know you are leading
I hope I am learning all this myself
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Emma
I look at the title of this blog.....
1st thing i read this morning:
Romans 12:2 'Do not conform any longer to the patterns of this world, BUT be transformed by the RENEWING of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is- His good, pleasing and perfect will.
2nd thing...Isaiah 13:6 Wail! God's day of judgement is near- an avalanche crashing down from the Strong God.
6 verses and I stop
Revelation of character
I am a daughter of Christ and I in front of my 9 year old Granddaughter called my daughter a 'bitch'. In fun I can justify. Why can i call it silly or fun or cute to do that?
I am thinking this morning about my 'words'.
I say, I love Jesus
I prove w/my ACTIONS and words, over and over- I am that in name only.
I am sorry Father and I am sorry Emma Grace, my first precious Gift from God Granddaughter.
I am sorry.
I will- run into Your Grace filled arms and not wallow in this or talk about it ad nauseum AND I will from now on, in remembering Romans and my mantle of 'daughter' watch my words and focus on You.
I will never call anyone a 'bitch' again and obediently listen before I speak all the while remembering Your love and Grace for all and spend the rest of my life listening to Your Spirit guide my words - prayerfully into discussion and LISTENING to them for openings to have those discussions where THEY are searching and that could potentially bring THEM into a knowing of YOU, Your Son, Your Grace.
I am sorry Emma.
1st thing i read this morning:
Romans 12:2 'Do not conform any longer to the patterns of this world, BUT be transformed by the RENEWING of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is- His good, pleasing and perfect will.
2nd thing...Isaiah 13:6 Wail! God's day of judgement is near- an avalanche crashing down from the Strong God.
6 verses and I stop
Revelation of character
I am a daughter of Christ and I in front of my 9 year old Granddaughter called my daughter a 'bitch'. In fun I can justify. Why can i call it silly or fun or cute to do that?
I am thinking this morning about my 'words'.
I say, I love Jesus
I prove w/my ACTIONS and words, over and over- I am that in name only.
I am sorry Father and I am sorry Emma Grace, my first precious Gift from God Granddaughter.
I am sorry.
I will- run into Your Grace filled arms and not wallow in this or talk about it ad nauseum AND I will from now on, in remembering Romans and my mantle of 'daughter' watch my words and focus on You.
I will never call anyone a 'bitch' again and obediently listen before I speak all the while remembering Your love and Grace for all and spend the rest of my life listening to Your Spirit guide my words - prayerfully into discussion and LISTENING to them for openings to have those discussions where THEY are searching and that could potentially bring THEM into a knowing of YOU, Your Son, Your Grace.
I am sorry Emma.
Monday, May 7, 2012
April 2012
Wow April was an amazing month this year.
Papa and I married 35 years.
2 weeks in LA with Dara, Juno and Nehe.....trying to serve Dara as she allowed a new lil one to settle into her womb....yep #6 on the way.
Traveling through the SW w/Papa seeing country so beautiful as to take you breath away.
Riding behind Papa praying....
Getting up in the morning and reading the Word, trying to learn about becoming a Disciple of Christ, desiring with my heart to be about Him and others, all others. It's so against my natural, this praying to be led always by the Supernatural. I don't know what's next. I pray that knowing the desires of my heart He is changing me. I pray to become more and more about Him and live a life that shows who I know, who I follow, who I obey.
I will this day be prayerful and obedient. To, in that obedience not miss anything that He is showing me, leading me to.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Mark 8
Jesus rebuking Peter: " You do not have in mind the things of God, but merely human concerns."
Moving....packing up 28 years of stuff....going back to a place I ran away from.....leaving the most dearest here....I want to be obedient to You. I want to be sure it's the right thing. How can I know??
Holding on to what Joshua told the people, LOWHS
Love You
Obey You
Walk with You
Hold tight to You
SERVE You
Joshua 22:5
Monday, March 26, 2012
Broken....
It doesn't take much reading of the Bible to see where we are broken...
No , I take that back, it takes a bit of time to read and digest this amazing book to see how and where we are broken. It doesn't take much just looking around, REALLY honestly looking around to see we are broken.
It's the honestly looking around that is key. See we are all so personally broken that we have lost what real honesty is, ok I have. It is only in having this amazing relationship with Christ that I have seen, can keep seeing how far from being honest I am. And I wager a guess that it is a common occurence in this human race.
But to make this personal I will keep it at how far from honest I have been....am. And that I cannot write 'have been', makes me really sad and yet...keeps me needing to be swimming in His Grace and that I can, simply stuns me over and over again.
Right now this story of Trayvon Martin, breaks my heart. That it is having to be told and dissected and that his poor family have found themselves not only suffering his loss but are in the middle of such a turbulent story line. A story with real characters and being told by just as real characters. A story being bandied about in defense of and criticized for making it a racial issue. We are such a broken world. The pain we inflict on each other is unbelievable and that sometimes we don't know that pain we inflict with our opinions is evidence of the brokenness. We see color and if you deny that, I have a feeling there is a whole lot more you are not in touch with, honest about. We see it....I do, have and so wish I didn't. I so wish it wasn't the first thing I notice. Quickly on the heels of that is attractiveness, the shallowness with which i operate shames me, no longer surprises me. Again I wish I didn't. What I can claim though is that now with Christ I don't stop there, not even long enough to make a judgment.....God I hope that's true and somehow as I write it claiming Christ I think it is. I have a bi-racial grandson, Nehemiah with the most beautiful caramel skin. With a Haitian Daddy and a white Momma, he is one of our passel of Grands.
I see color and attractiveness and swimming in Grace just needed because of said confession i become curious. He is making me more and more curious and for that I am grateful. He is humbling me to a place of needing to be swimming in Grace and making me curious.....How do I stay....right.....here.....?
No , I take that back, it takes a bit of time to read and digest this amazing book to see how and where we are broken. It doesn't take much just looking around, REALLY honestly looking around to see we are broken.
It's the honestly looking around that is key. See we are all so personally broken that we have lost what real honesty is, ok I have. It is only in having this amazing relationship with Christ that I have seen, can keep seeing how far from being honest I am. And I wager a guess that it is a common occurence in this human race.
But to make this personal I will keep it at how far from honest I have been....am. And that I cannot write 'have been', makes me really sad and yet...keeps me needing to be swimming in His Grace and that I can, simply stuns me over and over again.
Right now this story of Trayvon Martin, breaks my heart. That it is having to be told and dissected and that his poor family have found themselves not only suffering his loss but are in the middle of such a turbulent story line. A story with real characters and being told by just as real characters. A story being bandied about in defense of and criticized for making it a racial issue. We are such a broken world. The pain we inflict on each other is unbelievable and that sometimes we don't know that pain we inflict with our opinions is evidence of the brokenness. We see color and if you deny that, I have a feeling there is a whole lot more you are not in touch with, honest about. We see it....I do, have and so wish I didn't. I so wish it wasn't the first thing I notice. Quickly on the heels of that is attractiveness, the shallowness with which i operate shames me, no longer surprises me. Again I wish I didn't. What I can claim though is that now with Christ I don't stop there, not even long enough to make a judgment.....God I hope that's true and somehow as I write it claiming Christ I think it is. I have a bi-racial grandson, Nehemiah with the most beautiful caramel skin. With a Haitian Daddy and a white Momma, he is one of our passel of Grands.
I see color and attractiveness and swimming in Grace just needed because of said confession i become curious. He is making me more and more curious and for that I am grateful. He is humbling me to a place of needing to be swimming in Grace and making me curious.....How do I stay....right.....here.....?
Monday, March 19, 2012
Joshua 1:9
Holding onto this verse today.......maybe you need it too.
9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
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