Oh we all love them and we all want them~ BLESSINGS . But what happens when your BLESSINGS   come with SUFFERING, are you still truly BLESSED ? Hmm. JESUS  thinks so, as HE said it, "BLESSED are you.. ." *(Matthew 5:1-12) BLESSING 1~ “You’re BLESSED  when you’re at the end of your rope..." What????? BUT "With less of you there is more of GOD and HIS  rule." BLESSING 2~ "You’re BLESSED when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you..." What????? BUT "Only then can you be e

I always want to  SEE HOPE, because I always want  HOPE. Therefore, I am always anticipating the CHANGE that HOPE brings. HOPE~ the GREAT EXPECTATION for THE GOOD to happen. But what is THE GOOD ? Is GOOD  based on this happening or that happening, or is  THE GOOD that GOD IS HAPPENING, even if this or that is not happening? Hmm. HOPE is BELIEVING GOD IS ALWAYS HAPPENING. HOPE puts its TRUST   in the   UNSEEN for "We are saved by trusting. And trusting means looking forward t

You are   TIRED.   You are WEARY.   And then you hear the WORDS~ "COME TO ME". But you don't have anything left in you TO COME because you are TIRED and WEARY of COMING over and over and over again to the ONE who keeps asking you to "COME TO ME all who are weary and tired and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28-30.) Do you  COME one more time, or have you given up because you are TIRED  and  WEARY of PRAYING the same PRAYER, as it feels like the world has stopped moving and

GRACE  is the OPEN DOOR  to FORGIVENESS. You are treated wrongly. And there are OPEN DOORS to how you will respond. FREEDOM OF CHOICE. For there is THE DOOR OF GRACE and THE DOOR OF ANGER. Oh wide is the door of ANGER, for if you pick that door you will not be alone because BITTERNESS, FRUSTRATION, SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS will come with you. And then you will RESPOND  to the one who treated you wrongly with what you believe that they deserve. But then you both will leave STILL AN

HE LIVED it. SAINT PATRICK. And today is his day of remembrance. But not so much in wearing green and drinking green, but in really remembering who he was. A teen. Kidnapped to Ireland to as a slave   to herd and tend sheep. He reached out in  FAITH to GOD. “The love of GOD and HIS fear grew in me more and more,  as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same. I prayed in the woods