Category: Blog

  No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Every time you get up to exercise, to read your Bible, to say a prayer or to help someone, you are lapping everyone who remains on their behind. Be proud of yourself.

We must stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives of those around us. How people live their lives is not our business. It’s God’s business. So leave it to God! He is the great protector, rescuer, judge and He manages the lives of those around us. And unless He speaks a direct word to you about what you should do, step back from being a fixer. So let’s take off our cape and let God be God!

  When we are in the wilderness, God commands us to love Him when we can’t see him. “That’s like believing we are well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken.” But this really is the first great commandment… Love the Lord thy God with all you are…even in the wilderness.

The life we touch for good will touch another life, and in turn another, and who knows where the ripple effect will end…your touch goes on and on. One of my favorite people texted me the other day and made me smile! Years and years ago, when she was little, I started telling her the following: Love you little, love you big. Love you like a china pig. She is passing that on to her children today….and the ripples of love keep going.

  Don’t treat people the way they treat you. Treat people the way GOD treats you. Now that raises the bar!! God loves without limits, encourages continually and cares more about others than self.

The past is a place of reference not a place of residence. Never get that mixed up. The past makes us who we are today but it was a season and we have walked out of it. If you get this mixed up, you will “live” in the past and set down an anchor…and you will be stuck. Along with living in the past comes feelings of regret, shame, guilt and sadness. We were created for more!