TICK. TICK. TICK. Just stop. Inhale. Exhale. Repeat. And before you know it you are breathing like you have never breathed before as you are becoming so S T I L L as if time has stopped. And then you start to notice things around you that were always there, yet you are seeing them as it is for the first time. A sunrise. A sunset. A child. A smile. A tear. Your breath. You are alive. BUT is being alive enough to keep you breathing. Because then you start thinking about thing

AND WE KNOW THAT... Tick. Tick. Tick. IN ALL THINGS... Tick. Tick. Tick. GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD... Tick. Tick. Tick. OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM   (Romans 8:28). Because GOD'S PROMISE is a  PROMISE, and GOD  always keeps  HIS PROMISES IN ALL THINGS Tick. Tick. Tick. IN ALL THINGS~ the GOOD and the not-so- GOOD, GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD. Tick. Tick. Tick. Because GOD IS GOOD and that is all HE  knows how to be. Tick. Tick. Tick. Is GOD GOOD  when things are not going so GOOD in your l

Am I  PERFECT ? Oh no way. I tried to be  PERFECT, by DOING  more, and by BEING more, for everyone else because I was told I was not PERFECT. I wish I would have known then what I know now, NOW  that I met the PERFECT ONE who covers all my IMPERFECTIONS  with HIMSELF.   Tears stream down my face, as I remember the moment I  experienced HIS GRACE for the first time, at a time when I truly felt that I don't deserve it all. For who  GRACES someone who isn't PERFECT? Hmm. THE PER

You look at IT , as IT is looking at you. And you have a CHOICE. YES or NO. The CHOICE to eat the apple or not to eat the apple. You hear GOD'S soft whisper, reminding you that you are NOT to eat the apple, yet what you see before you is so DESIRABLE that you start to question what GOD said. Did I really hear GOD right? Did GOD mean THIS apple? HE couldn't have meant THIS apple, because it is so beautiful. The VOICE of QUESTIONING that was birthed in the garden, fro

REALITY is that we have EXPECTATIONS. But what if our EXPECTATIONS become our REALITY ? EXPECTANT PEACE~ "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to GOD; And the peace of GOD, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in CHRIST JESUS" (Philippians 4;7) EXPECTANT STRENGTH~ "I can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13) EXPECTANT JOY~

Today is the day chosen to remember THE EPIPHANY~ "the manifestation of CHRIST to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi"  (Lexicon). THE EPIPHANY~ "We Three Kings" coming to see the CHRIST CHILD~ "And the star they had seen in the east guided them to Bethlehem. It went ahead of them and stopped over the place where the CHILD was.   When they saw the star, they were filled with joy!   They entered the house and saw the CHILD with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and wor

Tick. Tick. Tick. Three seconds passed. Now six seconds passed. And now more seconds passed. As seconds do not stop for anyone. What if you numbered your seconds, treating every tick of the clock as if it is your only second. So this morning I asked GOD what HE  wanted me to do. And when you ask GOD, HE answers. All you have to do is be STILL enough and wait. HE  answered me with Micah. Yup. Micah. Out of the blue (hmm),  Micah 6:8 popped into this brain of mine. "To act just

JANUARY, the transitional month. The NEW  Year. The NEW  Beginning. The NEW Chances. The LIFE IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT Month. Then the days tick by as the remnants of Christmas are packaged away & then nothing has really changed, except the weather, as it gets colder and warmer, as it can't make up its mind. The diet and the exercise becomes a roller coaster ride. The  I will never do this again & I will never do that again, never seems to happen. JANUARY will then spill into

Tick. Tick. Tick. It was J UST CHRISTMAS and now it is not. It was JUST NEW YEARS DAY and now it is not. It is JUST January 3. And now what? Do you see a long winter up ahead? Are you buying Valentine's candy? Are you planning your Easter vacation? But it is JUST January 3. Don't we LIVE our LIVES treating our days as JUST . But we have it all wrong, as every day is more than JUST SECONDS because every SECOND is not JUST a SECOND, as it can become so much more dependin

You only have a  SECOND. And this SECOND  is going to be your best SECOND.   Because in this SECOND you are experiencing THE PEACE THAT TRANSCENDS ALL UNDERSTANDING. But then the  PEACE stops, because you are trying to UNDERSTAND how you could have PEACE  in this  SECOND,  because you know that you should not have PEACE   because your circumstances are not PEACEFUL. Have you ever been there? You want PEACE. And GOD  fills you with HIS PEACE. But then you question whether you