When you are highly attuned to listening to your gut feeling you are listening to your heart. You can’t ignore it. Holy Spirit lives there and comes alive with guidance, warnings, calming, and a niggling sense of right and wrong. Are you listening? Are you asking? Are you praying? The world pulls our heart in […]
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As I stood in the barn aisle looking over the pasture while listening to the horses munch their breakfast a serene feeling of just being in the moment washed over me. It was a blessing from God. Yes, my eyes teared up in thankfulness and remembering. I remembered the importance of just being in the
Doves coo as I stand in the crisp morning sun thanking God and listening for Holy Spirit to speak. I heard “Stand firm in the softness that you were created for in me.” I was comforted and affirmed in the peaceful faith in my Heavenly Father. Life is hard most times one way or another.
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Without prayer we do not develop a strong habit of doing life with God. It is a discipline of your most important relationship in life. When we only pray on Sunday, holidays, in a crisis, or once in a while, we wonder why peace comes and goes. Peace eludes us like the waxing and waning
Love is a gift from God planted deep within our souls by the Holy Spirit. It must be nurtured by each of us with plantings of prayer, His Word, seeking personal relationship with and living the Jesus way. This is the only path to grow unconditional love for these are the catalysts to forgiving ourselves
God’s peace came to earth to begin a new work of relational and conscious worship. Jesus grew into His calling of teaching, justice, healing, and miracles of love. His life purpose was to show us how to live wrapped within the love of God in peace, harmony, serving, and joy while the world around us
Is a daily relationship with Jesus on your New Year’s Resolutions list? The Christmas plays are over. Church cantata’s are completed. Gifts have been put away and decorations are poised to go back into storage until the end of the year. Where does that leave Jesus in your life? In the manger in a box?
The nagging trend of wanting Christmas to be perfect with lights galore, plentiful gifts, and noisy crowds misses the point of miracle and mystery. Take time to reflect on how the mystery babe lived to become the God man who saved the world. You are a miracle, too. Live like it. This Christ-mas ignore the
Awareness is the key to observation. When we converse with God every day we will become aware of Holy presence within. As we commit to God’s Word, prayer, and Holy Spirit guidance daily we become aware that Holy presence is everywhere. That awareness leads to the observation that God uses His creation, animals, forest walks,
Who do you need to forgive? Today is the day, even if it is your very own self. Cross the bridge to heal that part of you where unforgiveness is holding on tight. The journey to wholeness in Christ includes the daily release of self, compassion for others, and the ability to forgive those who
