It makes you take a step forward, when you want to go backwards. It makes you face the unfamiliar, when you would rather touch what is familiar. It makes you TRUST in the midst of doubt. It stretches you because it is stretched as the hands of the clock continue to move forward, yet everything around you is at a standstill yet changing in ways that you wish weren't, because "IT" demands so much of you, because you don't have a choice. Therefore you succumb and take the most

Do you FEAR REJECTION ? Do you FEAR FAILURE ? Is it PEOPLE'S APPROVAL that you seek, because you FEAR what other's think about you, more than you FEAR what GOD thinks of you? Oh the trap of seeking PEOPLE'S APPROVAL, which is actually THE FEAR OF PEOPLE, that seeps in when you least expect it, because you SEE PEOPLE, you do LIFE with PEOPLE , and because you are one of the PEOPLE. I know we all suffer with PEOPLE APPROVAL at some degree, because you can't get away from

I just heard a story about a man who lived a life without reason, as he didn't have GOD. And then it happened, when GOD took hold of his HEART changing his LIFE FOREVER. A lost cause he was, so others thought. But not Billy Graham as he had a relationship with this man. Billy never forced GOD upon him. But Billy prayed. And then it happened. Stuart Hamblen came with his wife to see Billy and confessed to how his life was a mess. He then came to Billy Graham's crusade and

TO BE OR NOT TO BE LOVE? The question isn't about your being LOVED, but TO BE LOVE, to show LOVE, to LIVE LOVE, when you are with the UNLOVABLE. But is anyone UNLOVABLE, in the sight of JESUS? "For there is no condemnation in CHRIST JESUS" For the adulterous women~ "For there is no condemnation in CHRIST JESUS" For the woman at the well~ "For there is no condemnation in CHRIST JESUS"   For the crucifiers at the cross~ "For there is no condemnation in CHRIST JESUS" For you,

HE  shows up like  HE always does. And  HE  looks into your eyes. Tears start to fall from your eyes, for you wonder why is HE  looking at you. Doesn't HE  know that you are far from perfect? Doesn't HE see what is wrong with you? For others see it. For others choose not to be with you. But why does HE  just come to be with you? Because that is what TRUE LOVE  does. TRUE LOVE  shows up on a cross when HE  is not guilty. TRUE LOVE shows UP, when you are guilty, yet TRUE LOVE  

They come out every morning at the same time, like their life depends on it. They just sit on their designated fronds and are so STILL until one bird ruffles the feathers of another. And then they go back to what they do best and BE STILL . A peacefulness runs through my being as I want to be a bird. I wonder how they can be so STILL and do the same thing every day. As a flock of them fly off in the morning and return at night. And then they do it again. Maybe we are all bir