Category: Holidays

My Cup Runneth Over

4/18/2014

Everyone STOP. Please, right where you are, just pause, and take a moment to celebrate with me. Today is so beautiful. It is Springtime and the world is full with the promise of life. I can feel two baby girls move within me and today was the first time the doctors have been so hopeful, so excited about my little ones' change and growth. God is so GOOD.

But what made this moment so much bigger for me was when I realized it was Good Friday. Today I also celebrate the most precious gift of all--forgiveness. Forgiveness that allows me into the presences of God and fills my very being with the Holy Spirit.

The sun shines so brightly today and I smile with it. And the Psalms I learned as a child dances through my heart.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Psalm 23

Oh, yes! I have everything I need in my relationship with God. Whatever blessings of children, health, and family my Heavenly Father blesses me with is simply extra beauty to be gathered in my life. How beautiful is His love for us, His children.

And it is because of Jesus that we have this to claim, that we can pray to Him, talk to Him, and feel the answers to our hurt and heartache through the peace that reigns through our soul.

I hope you take a moment to celebrate. We all have so much to thank God for. Happy Good Friday and Happy Easter to you all!

Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."

John 6:35

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Finding God...Again

1/13/2014

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These days I feel like everything I begged and prayed for the past few months has been coming to pass. I’ve been home for the Holiday season for the first time in years. I’ve filled many days with beautiful moments. I got to be there when my newest nephew was born and was there to share that precious miracle with my sister. I got to spend comfortable days in the home of my parents, clean and cook for them, and share in the joy and laughter as my daughter gets to know her grandparents. I’ve got to see the excited and love-filled look in the eyes of my husband’s family when we shared the news that we are welcoming another child into the world sometime next fall.

All these things… ALL these things… I have prayed for and rejoice and thank God for his wondrous blessings.

But in these days, packed with wonder, I have put something even more precious to the sideline.

Quiet.

It sounds simple and perhaps unnecessary, but it is essential to my walk of faith--Quiet time with God.

That’s when I pray, deep and simply, and wait to hear is voice.

That’s when I let life pause and feel the deep strains of God’s spirit tug me to His will.

That’s when I am renewed.

In the Bible, Jesus went away, alone to the garden and prayed. For hours he prayed. And it wasn’t the only time. Jesus went and searched for His quiet time alone with His Heavenly Father on many occasions.

It is vital.

It is important.

It is what keep the path illuminated, keeps us hearing His voice beating strong in the deep strains of our hearts.

That is where our strength comes from.

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Therefore let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found; surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.
Psalm 32:6

When and how do you find quiet time to spend with God? Perhaps your experiences can help some of your brothers and sisters in Christ begin to spend daily time, alone with God. Please, go ahead and share.

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Living in the Now

12/9/2013

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Okay, it is THAT time of the year. Yes, we are all wonderfully excited to celebrate the birth of Jesus and His wonderful gift to us. But, from Thanksgiving to New Year's day, life piles on the stress. Hold on, breathe, and remember... God never means for us to live with constant planning and worry in our heads. He wants us to trust Him and to live in the moment.

My holiday season was jump-started with my little girl having surgery, preparing an early Thanksgiving dinner for our Australian friends, and then packing to go back to the States.

I got on that plane and had to remind myself to breathe and let God have it all. It was a hard trip.

Oh, how I dearly wanted someone else to take her off my hands. When it was all said and done, getting from our friend's house in Tumbarumba, Australia to my sister's house in the States meant that I was on Mommy duty 24 hours straight with almost no sleep. Yes, my husband was there to hold her and do all those amazing things that got us through security and on the right airplane, but she was still very scared and stressed from her surgery and mostly only wanted her mom's arms.

For days, no, weeks, before this, I had gotten not even a single night of complete sleep. I had reached that ultimate depth of sleep-deprivation that I hadn't felt since Adela was a newborn. However, if I wasn't thinking about how tired I was or worrying about how I was going to get Adela used to a new time zone, life seemed so much more manageable. I made my mind focus on things like: I love the feeling of her sleeping on my shoulder. or I'm so happy that she is ok simply playing between our legs. or How blessed we are that we are getting to go home to our families for the holidays.

But, it was definitely a battle. Several times I started to get angry and frustrated. I would angrily scream inside my head that I just wanted to be alone for 15 minutes so I could feel sane again. But those thoughts did absolutely nothing for me. I knew that having the right mindset was more important than anything else in the world.

It was truly a miracle that I arrived with a smile on my face and still had a heart full of kind feeling and a mind full of warm thoughts.

But that was God. That was all Him. That was all Him working through me as He trained me to live where He placed me...to live in the now.

Lets let Him have our every moment this Holiday season. Let us embrace this time that is usually packed to the brim with whatever life throws at us and have a heart that lives in the now and enjoys the beauty of every moment.

God Bless you all. Happy Holidays!

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Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer
Psalm 19:14

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