I am an ant. A tiny speck in a sea of ants. Actually, probably more like a grain of sand. If someone looked for me from an airplane, they would never find me. And guess what? Neither would they find you. Hmm. That doesn't sound very encouraging, does it? But maybe it is. Because I"T'S NOT ABOUT ME". It never was. When I look at the vastness of creation, I realize how incredibly small I am~ "I look up at Your macro-skies, dark and enormous, Your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and

TO OBEY or NOT TO OBEY? Is that the question or the answer? YES! What do you think when you hear the word OBEDIENCE? YIKES. For me, it used to sound like a life filled with DO'S and DON'TS. DON'T DO this. DO this. DON't DO that. DO that. Where is the JOY in that? But wait... if JESUS IS JOY, wouldn't following JESUS be JOYFUL? YES. Because OBEDIENCE isn't about following rules so GOD will LOVE you. OBEDIENCE IS OUR RESPONSE TO GRACE. We don't OBEY to earn HIS LOVE. We OBEY be

"IT IS NOT ABOUT ME"~ who I think I am, who others say I am, or even how I feel about myself. It is all aboutJESUS~ who HE IS, what HE has done, and who I have become because I am IN CHRIST. Just two little words with the power to change our identity— who we are and who we sometimes think we are. Just two powerful little words— IN CHRIST. Try it~ I am ACCEPTED... IN CHRIST. But when I do not accept myself, and when others do not accept me, am I still accepted? Have you ever a

Good Morning NEW DAY. A NEW DAY filled with NEW MOMENTS with JESUS. Because JESUS IS HERE. For it is all about JESUS and "IT'S NOT ABOUT ME". Hmm. But maybe it is about me and you and everyone else, because GOD made it about ONE AND FOR ALL. For didn't GRACE come swaddled in a manger? Hmm. GRACE is one of those CHRISTIAN~ESE words that is the most misunderstood, because it isn't a word. GRACE is a GIFT, a beautiful GIFT that never stops giving. GRACE GIFTS you STRENGTH, when

TICK. TICK. TICK. Today is the LAST day of CHRISTMAS IN JULY. But is there ever a LAST DAY OF JESUS? Hmm. Think about it. Was the CROSS HIS LAST DAY when HE said, "IT IS FINISHED?" Was the TOMB HIS LAST stop when the stone was rolled into place? It certainly looked like the end. But what appeared to be HIS LAST DAY became our FIRST DAY. Because HE ROSE. The tomb was empty. Death was defeated. And JESUS was ALIVE. So where is JESUS today? HE IS HERE. CHRISTMAS IN JULY may b