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Practice your Faith with Penmanship

It's been about 2.5 years since I last posted to this blog...its been 2.5 years since I felt the passion for this blog again. I was sucked into the life of school and work, no time off, no weekends, and more intensely no time for God. Try as I might, life got in the way and I continually lost the passion and energy to pick up the gauntlet and write. Since writing is truly a way to reach and teach God's word I find it a necessary part of life. And this is the theme of today's post, WRITE IT OUT. It is so easy as part of this society to constantly be swept up in the ferocious cycle of distraction. One of the greatest lost arts to self wellness to me is the written word. The bible might be the most practical of examples, but it is also the most vital of ones. The discipline that courses through the Psalms, the animation in the words of the Lord. We are told to read because it is written, do I need say more? It is a cyclical measure that as Christians we need to make one of our...
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Love.

Lately I have been doing a journal about Gods Love. . . Yes we have heard it hundred times "God is love." That we should be like Him, love like Him. But how exactly does one get motivated enough to love someone we'd rather wrestle an alligator then spend ten minutes with them? Let's start with Romans 5:5 where is says  "God pours his perfect love into my imperfect heart." It is, my friends one hundred percent possible to love anyone. We just have to be motivated enough to want it. I know personally it's easier most times to turn away. Shield our hearts from that kind of "work." I think sometimes it's because its easy for us to reject ourselves, to "under" love who we are. Impart making it impossible to love others. First let God love you, as shameful as you feel stepping into the pool of his Love, it's important to first feel unfailing love, and then give that to others. When you love through God, you really see people. It...
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Perfect

I want to start off this blog post with a very very important message from one of my favorite daily devotionals. The book is titled "Jesus Calling".... and this He does when you read this incredible novel. I opened mine this morning to June 5th not knowing what today's message would bring. But as God does, he brought exactly what I needed. Many of us strive to perfection, God himself says he instilled in us the drive to be so. Be we often misconstrue WHAT perfection we should be striving for. It is not in our daily schedules, jobs, school nor this world in general. We will be met with much frusteration simply because the world we want to be perfect in...is terribly imperfect. Jesus calling says, " remember that you live in a fallen world: an abnormal world tainted by skin. Much frusteration and failure result from your seeking perfection in this life." I mean, AMEN to that am I right? Ask God not to be perfect in this world, but meerly In Him, reach to be perfec...
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Tidal waves

I've been reading this really good book about our words, what we say, when we say it and especially how it comes across to others. I recommend it very highly, it's called "Keep It Shut" by Karen Ehman. In this book she searches for answers to what the effect our words have on others is after we have left them. Our words are like waves she voices... What kind of ripple effect do we leave when the conversation etc is over? It takes me to the hot summers at my lakehouse, how all I think about it getting out there to wakeboard 24/7. The way my board and I glide of the smooth liquid glass. Like a breath of fresh air as I lean down and skim the cold satin with my fingers. Not all rides are like this, many times I am forced to battle choppy water conditions. Though they can be fun and challenging, I thought today of Karen's analogy. When we hangout, converse and spend time with people, we reminisce about our times together. Rarely do we ponder how we left them... Did you...
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Volume

There are many stages to grief, all extremely important but very different. The whole idea of it is to accept the reality of what happened or is happening to you. There is one stage in particular that doesn't associate just with greif... DENIAL. We've all done it, spent too many minutes convincing ourselves or those around us of a statement/idea/notion that clearly stands on very shaky ground. It's a difficult thing to accept the truth, but it lies at the very heart of a couple solid traits that make or break our maturity. Humility, honesty, bravery, courage and strenght. All particularly impressive actions played out in movies, books and relationships. If we spent half as much time as we cuddling our sins and persuading ourselves it's ok as we did confessing them to God.. I fully believe those honorary traits we strive to have would become embedded parts of our nature. God wants us to simply tell Him of our downfalls, pray with him as humans and plead for forgiveness a...
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Sugar

I think it would be a good idea to ask ourselves what the "sugar" of our lives is at this moment. Is it a guilty pleasure show on lifetime dropping with drama? Or maybe its something as simple as the hours you spend on Instagram or Pinterest. For me it's a new fashion peice or carving out time to play my video games at the end of the day. Yes I am an advocate for happiness and looking foward to hobby or habit. But as our lives grow and we begin to form our lives... Is God our main dose of sugar each day or is He the vegetable we "try" to fit in out diets each day? I know I should read my bible, do my devotions and attend church. But only in those moments do I really remember that I continuously forget about spending daily time with I God. A good focus for us all is to figure out a small way to not only make God a priority in our day like we do that warm chocolate chip cookie you can't wait to devour at the end of the day... But to also develop a hunger for t...
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Brick Wall

I think we all have felt stopped in our tracks, by some invisible wall our minds have subconsciously built. It stands in front of us, looming with a powerfully dark shadow casting us into total darkness. Personally I've built walls I no longer have the strength to break down, I don't even have the proper tools to  begin to trying to tear them down. It's a scary place to be, stopped from advancing by some un- weirding force, trapped in our own maze. At some point I realized I wasn't going to tear it down, there was no going through it. I looked up and realized something, something we all need to recognize as we face these formidable securities... As humans we don't have the strenght to do anything about them, let HIM lift you above your walls, and over to the light. Admit your issues honestly and openly. Then lift up your hands...and watch what He does. 
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