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A Christ Message for Every Day
A CHRIST MESSAGE FOR EVERY DAY I humbly submit to you to consider giving where your gift(s) will make the most difference. What may be a small consideration for you, may impact another’s life greatly. In this process and cycle of giving and receiving, both parties experience God’s abundant supply. Be blessed as you go, and in all you do, be sure to be a blessing. {Click to read the message.}
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What really matters in the end…
I am not one to admit to having favorites within my family. There’s a great deal of jealously on both sides and I learned early on that what I did for one person, I had to do for others. Most especially for my two grandmothers, who had the wonderful foresight (or cunning) to be neighbors for the majority of my life. From the age of five, I have been a visiting granddaughter “from out-of-town”, and as such, my grandma time has been split almost consistently down the middle during my visits to my hometown. Morning at Grandma B’s, evening at Grandma S’s. First night at Grandma S’s, second night at Grandma B’s.…
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It’s the willingness that counts
In overcoming some challenges in relationships that my stubbornness has contributed to, I’ve noticed that the situations did not get better when I got my way or when the other person got theirs. For me, the situation always got better when I became WILLING to set aside my pride, my wants, my point of view, my needs, and my issues for the benefit of the relationship. Whenever I am willing to meet the other person where they are, I then become able to overlook my own agenda in any dispute. The result is: the hardship or disagreement stops being a challenge. What was previously a sore spot in a relationship becomes a doorway –…
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Excerpt: You Must Believe to Understand
There are many relationships during the course of our lives through which we have to navigate our way. Some of those relationships fail and die because one or both parties involved are unfamiliar with the process of love, repentance and forgiveness. Love, repentance and forgiveness are more than just words that you speak and forget about. Love requires action. Repenting mends the love you hurt. Forgiveness is a loving response to the attack on love. They are all choices. Asking is involved. Receiving is necessary. Giving is the only way each is shared.
