Abuse

It’s a given that any form of abuse is not to be tolerated. That type of reality devastates my heart, but few things bring me to tears faster than hearing or seeing an animal abuse story. I’m not a weepy person, but I’ll do the ugly cry every time.

Hallelujah!

In my late 20’s I battled depression on and off. I can’t remember where I got the idea to begin a practice of gratitude but once I made it a daily practice I begin to experience a difference in my life. Within what I would define as a short amount of time I begin to turn my thought life around. I didn’t purposefully think I was turning my thought life around it was the natural byproduct of giving God my hallelujah.

A Glimpse

Something that I’m becoming more and more aware of is the intimacy with which God speaks to us. I continually get a glimpse of the various ways Christ reveals Himself. The truth is, when we put something in God’s hands, He redeems it. Nothing is wasted in God’s value system. Give Him broken, shattered, beyond recognition and He gives it purpose, value, life anew.

In Him

Everything that we are aware of in our created world and everything that we are not aware of beyond our existence are all authored by Him, God. Without exception all in existence here and beyond is through Him and for Him and in He and more importantly, He holds it all together.

Life Verse

I first heard about life verses in my early 30s. During my prayer time, I began asking the Lord for a personal life verse. I can’t remember in what context I discovered Jeremiah 33:3. Perhaps it was during a Bible study or when I was looking something up. I do know there didn’t seem to be anything unusual or supernatural about the way I found it, but when I read it, something in me connected with it and I knew that was my life verse. “Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not yet know“ (Jeremiah 33:3).