Are you LOST IN TRANSLATION? JESUS invites you TO COME, BUT your heart hears, "RUN in the other direction". JESUS invites you to "FOLLOW ME", BUT your heart hears, "But first I NEED to do this". JESUS invites you to "WATCH and PRAY", BUT your heart hears what the disciples wanted to hear, "Please FALL ASLEEP while I am going to pray to OUR FATHER in the GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE". Hmm. There they were. JESUS SAID~ “MY soul is deeply grieved, so that I am almost dying of sorrow. S

ONCE UPON A TIME I built my castle with bricks in my suitcase that I took with me wherever I went. As I sat in my castle I read the inscription on each brick~ Bitterness. Hurt. Despair. Anxiety. Insignificance. Insecurity & Rejection. But then JESUS came into my story and took each one of them to build HIS CROSS, exchanging them for FORGIVENESS. HEALING. HOPE PEACE SIGNIFICANCE SECURITY ACCEPTANCE. Because I came to JESUS weary & tired, sick and tired of being sick and tired

When JESUS INVITES you TO COME, HE INVITES you TO COME. And why? Because HE has a GIFT that only HE can GIVE. The GIFT OF REST. A REST for your mind, body, and heart. What is this REST? REST~ "to take a break from one’s activities in order to be refreshed" (logos) Hmm. To TAKE A BREAK from one's activities. Is BEING ANXIOUS one of your activities? TAKE A REST~ "Cast all your anxiety on HIM, because HE cares for you" (I Peter 1:7). Is BEING BITTER one of your activities? TAKE

YOU never STOP. YOU never GIVE UP. YOU are RELENTLESS. YOU are STEADFAST. Because YOU are GOD. YOU won't let me STAY the SAME, because YOU have so much MORE for ALL YOUR CREATIONS. Every person who has BREATH is YOURS. And YOU don't want ANYONE to not experience MORE OF YOU. YOUR MORE is THE MORE that everyone is SEEKING, whether they know it or not. For we all have a GOD HOLE in our HEART, that only GOD can FILL. Nothing else or no one else will FIT, no matter how hard we

What if? I remember sitting there one day and picturing something. What if JESUS was KNOCKING at my door? So I closed my eyes and imagined it. KNOCK.KNOCK.KNOCK. There was SOMEONE at the door. And suddenly, I panicked. My house was a mess. I was a mess. I wasn't ready for A VISITOR. Now, picture this with me. Imagine that you hear A KNOCK at your door. You slowly walk toward it. You look through the peephole. And there HE IS. JESUS. What would you do? Would you immediately op

Is it easier TO BELIEVE or TO NOT BELIEVE? Think about it. Really think about it when DOUBT is right before you because you see THE RED SEA and you have to cross, but you don't know how to swim. BUT then MOSES parts the RED SEA, because THE GOD that MOSES BELIEVES told MOSES that HE would part the sea. And all MOSES had to do was to BELIEVE enough in order to do what GOD asked HIM to do. Because BELIEVING is an action of OBEDIENCE~ "Raise your staff and stretch out your hand

SEPTEMBER brings NEWNESS. School begins. A NEW grade.A NEW STEP. From kindergartento first grade... and the grades never stop. Because LIFE NEVER STOPS. It keeps asking usto take another STEP in a NEW DIRECTION. So... What NEW STEP are you standing on TODAY? Is it a life without someone you love? Is it a NEW job or leaving an OLD one? Is it a NEW relationship... or an OLD relationship that you desperately want to become NEW? Is your child leaving home, turning the home you kn

Tick. Tick. Tick. The LAST Day of SEPTEMBER. But isn't TODAY your last TODAY, because you will never have this TODAY again? So what...

FEAR isn't a person. FEAR isn't a place. FEAR isn't a thing. FEAR only has the power that you give it. FEAR is an action. TO FEAR THE...

Are you LOST IN TRANSLATION ? JESUS invites you TO COME , BUT your heart hears, "RUN in the other direction". JESUS invites you to...