Once upon a time they were defined not be a  NAME, but by a label, yet JESUS sees behind the label. JESUS  sees her at the well,  the one whose name is SAMARITAN  woman who had five husbands and now a plus one.  JESUS SEES her and talks to her, not taking a drink of water  but giving one to her~  " but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life" (John 14:13).  HE clothe

As we slept 3,600 SECONDS were stolen, as our clocks have TICKED FORWARD But today is A NEW DAY. 86,400 NEW SECONDS, . What are you going to do with them? TICK. TICK. TICK. Three seconds just passed. And while writing that last line, another three SECONDS  passed. Time flies. Make every SECOND count, even if the SECOND  is not the one that you want. When you are in pain. When you are in wait. When you are in bitterness When you are in anxiety, When you are in anger. When you

I still live as if I am LIVING IN THE DARK when I am seeking to FIND PEACE JOY HOPE and LOVE in spaces and places and in  people and things, when it appears as if THE LIGHT has gone out. I know better to not go    SEEKING for what I already have IN CHRIST, but when my humanism starts to take over I FORGET , by allowing my FEELINGS and what I don't SEE to take over me. BUT GOD  then ALWAYS  opens the eyes of my HEART, leading me back like a lost sheep, to my SHEPHERD . And HE

I SMIPLY GIGGLED. It came out of my mouth because my heart was laughing, that I couldn't contain myself. I felt as if I was doing something wrong, as I looked at my husband & he looked back at me with such a silly happy grin that I GIGGLED again. I felt like a kid again who so easily GIGGLES because she is FREE to just be herself without second guessing her every move, because she embraces life as she just lives with such freedom being herself because she knows that her

What would you give to JESUS if HE  made a special trip to your home and said, " I want you to give ME your most precious possession. It may actually be something that is causing you pain, yet you can't let it go. It may be something that you love so much,  yet you are depending on it too much. It may be something that you can't let go, because you can't picture your life without it. It may actually be you. But whatever it is I promise to carry it for you. I promise that you

LIFE is THE WAITING GAME with every TICKING SECOND. WAITING  for the GOOD   to come. WAITING   for the NOT~SO~GOOD  to leave. But then what is left. Your SECOND  right now. And then GOD  graciously gives you another SECOND.   And   HE   never stops giving you another SECOND , even when you and I leave this TEMPORARY WORLD . This WORLD is our TEMPORARY HOUSING , just like a that is just like a COCOON for where we WAIT, for that   SECOND  when we won't be WAITING  anymore~ "

Think about it: Don't do ANYTHING that you are going to COMPLAIN  about later. Is it eating that extra piece of cake? Is it staying up too late at night? Is it doing something that you know you shouldn't be doing, but you do it anyway? Or Is it something that has happened to you beyond your control? Is it ______________? What is your ANYTHING ? No matter how it came about, it is real. Did you know that the first complainer was Adam?  He said yes to eat the apple that he knew

CONTENTMENT isn’t found in what I see. CONTENTMENT isn’t found in what I am feeling. CONTENTMENT isn’t found in what I am doing. Because if CONTENTMENT was found in all that I see and feel and do, what if I don’t like how I feel because of what I see or do? Hmm. Think about it. I have been there. I have done it. But when I stop searching for CONTENTMENT and just rest in RIGHT NOW I already feel lighter. It wasn't until FAITH became my eyesight. FAITH~ seeing the unse

You stand before THE JUDGE. And HE is waiting to hear what you have to say. For you weren't summoned to go before HIM . For it was you who made the appointment. You look into HIS eyes. And then you start talking~ "Investigate my life, O GOD,    find out everything about me;Cross-examine and test me,    get a clear picture of what I’m about;See for yourself whether I’ve done anything wrong—    then guide me on the road to eternal life"   (Psalm 139: 23-24 MSG). You did it. You

Let's start with the Simple Truth~ JESUS LOVES YOU. Now some will stop reading this, because we all "know" it. We know the song & we know that JESUS & LOVE & GOD are words that all go together. But so what? So what that JESUS LOVES YOU? How does that change you? How does that make your circumstances better? How does that make your anxieties subside? How does that restore relationships? How does that change the image that you see in the mirror? JESUS LOVES YOU. Tears fill my