Into the Mess

http://www.fearfully-wonderfully.com/2011/05/into-mess.html

WOW.
That is all I have is just Wow!

True Woman | Forgiven Much

True Woman | Forgiven Much



“I believe that people who have been forgiven much ~ love much...they don't have time to get self righteous...
and judgmental because they know that God has delivered them by HIS mercy and His grace...so they become
thankful not expectant.
That’s how I feel as well ...thankful 'coz I know I'm not perfect and got plenty... to be thankful for!”

Friend

WHAT IS A FRIEND?

http://iwillalwaysbeafriend.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-is-friend.html?spref=fb


You're...
My Friends,
my companions,
through good times and bad
my friends, my buddies,
through happy and sad, beside me you stand,
beside me you walk,
you're there to listen,
you're there to talk,
with happiness, with smiles,
with pain and tears,
I know you'll be there,
throughout the years! My friends!



My friends, True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

- Charles Caleb Colton


"
My friends, A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
- Anon


My friends, "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friends.
- Albert Camus





"My friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life."
- Anon

My friends, "Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
- Mencius


"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch them."
- Anon

My friends, "Everyone hears what you say. My Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."
- Anon


My friends,
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."
-Tim McGraw

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
- Anon




My friends, "Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher."



My friends, Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it is a comfort to go hand in hand." ~Emily Kimbrough~






My friends, If you have one true friend, you have more than your share. ~Thomas Fuller~



My friends, “When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.”



My friends, "Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance, but never in heart.”


"Promise you won't forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."
~Winnie the Pooh~



My friends, "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
~Walter Winchell~


If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
~Source Unknown~


"If I had one gift that I could give you, my friends, it would be the ability to see yourselves as others see you, because only then would you know how extremely special you are."
~B.A. Billingsly~



My friends, "A true friend is someone who knows there's something wrong even when you have the biggest smile on your face."

Source: http://www.indianchild.com/my_friend.htm

My Grandson's Home Run

Who are you?

Who Defines You?
I looked into the mirror and didn't recognize the face looking back. It startled me. That person I thought I knew so well was now experiencing something so unfamiliar.

I didn't realize it at the time. Or at least I didn't want to admit it at the time... but I had allowed something very dangerous and destructive to happen. Of course it happened so slowly, so very slowly.

If it had happened with any speed at all I surely would have recognized it. I would have fought it. I would have recognized the danger in it. But it didn't. It was silent... until it exploded.

I had given away something so very valuable and precious. I had given permission for others to determine something that only one should have the power to determine. I had allowed many others to give a definition that had already been decided and written in black and white... and even in the red of the sacrificial blood of love.

I knew better. It was not intentional. It just happened. I did not keep my focus. I allowed others to define me.

It was not good! It was not right! It was not healthy! It set out to destroy me! It had the potential of stealing from me the very person that God created me to be!

I have since reminded myself that no one has earned the right to define my worth and value. Not even myself! No one should be allowed that role except one... God Himself. He created me. Surely He is the only one who truly can define the value and worth of me.

My identity is NOT:
* how co-workers define me
* how my boss defines me
* how my church family defines me
* how my children's teachers define me
* how my children's friends define me
* how my neighbors define me
* how my friends define me
* how my family defines me
* how my parents define me
* how my children define me
* how my husband defines me

It is NOT even in
* how I define myself

My identity alone rests in how God defines me.

Zephaniah 3:17 (NIV) "The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."


Now that verse in the words of Dennis Jernigan:

"The eternal self-existent God, the God who is 3 in 1, He who dwells in the center of your being, is a powerful and valiant warrior. He has come to set you free, to keep you safe and to bring you victory. He is cheered and He beams with exceeding joy and takes pleasure in your presence. He has engraved a place for Himself in you and there He quietly rests in His love and affection for you. He cannot contain Himself at the thought of you and with the greatest joy spins around wildly in anticipation over you… and has placed you above all other creations and in the highest place in His priorities. In fact, He shouts and sings in triumph joyfully proclaiming the gladness of His heart in a song of rejoicing. All because of you."
I encourage you to take a look at yourself. Who has the keys to your identity? Has it slowly and silently drifted from it's rightful owner without your intent or knowledge?

I was surprised to learn where I discovered the keys to mine. It has taken tears, heartache, pain and chaos and confusion of spirit to locate the problem and return the keys to the rightful owner.

If you find it is anyone other than God Himself holding your identity keys... it could potentially destroy everything He created you to be. It almost did to me!


http://mqcorner.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-defines-you.html

Was about to get ready for church this morning and the lights went off. Needless to say you don 't know how dependant in electricity till it is off. I got ready, was about to put my dress on and realized I can't get out because the garage door won't open without power. Sigh, musta been a sign I was not supposed to leave the house. My boys are off doing their own thing this mornin so I would have been with my church family instead of them. I thought I can just have my own worship with Just God. Lo and behold the lights came back on. It was too late for me to get to church so I thought Lord, you must have wanted me home for some reason. One on ONE time with just Him.

Happy Mom's day with Love to my daughter, Meg who is a wonderful mother to my grandson, Jon Brantlee and wife to my son, Brandon.
Happy Mom's day in Heaven to my own. I miss you - I love you Mom. I felt your presence this morning .
Hope you ladies have a very Happy Mother's Day and are as blessed as I am.

♥ Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. When you were born, I saw your face and knew I was in love. Before you were a hour old, I knew I would die for you, and to this day I will.



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http://www.incourage.me/imperfection/

Empty and Full - An Honest Mother's Day
Some days I am bone dry.

Even an accidental Spiderman cup of juice flying at my lap from across the table can't move me. I am un-rested mother, and that descriptor shakes a stick at my perspective on sexy and fun and life and light - on the gratitude that keeps my heart singing.

I get caught under clouds of exhaustion, the darkness rolled in for a visit, and I wait in the silence for it all to burst, for the rain to soak me down and relieve my spirit.

But it's dry, and my soul feels like it needs a nap. Wake me up when this is over.

When I hit these days, I prescribe to myself a few remedies: memory verses, prayers, no television, more church, and usually I exhaust myself further before something breaks, like a thunder clap.

And then I'm drenched in the knowledge of God. I hear God's voice so clearly, because He has spoken into the silence. The light bursts in relentlessly.

I see now.

There is much purpose in those dark places, how the mean time prepares our souls, gives us a contrast for which to see greatness and grace, and makes us long for Spirit water and restoration, causing in us a desperation that declares allegiance, sealing bond-enslavement, and granting freedom from this temporary world. There is a beauty in having been aware of great nothingness and in seeing, finally, consuming God.

He makes the dry bones quake. He makes them peel up from the grave and dance. Ah, we are the grateful dead - He, a constant new-creation maker.

And we are mothers.

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My experience as a mother and as a woman and as a human, in general, is that sometimes I need a little help. Oh, okay, a lot of help.

I am thankful to Thomas Nelson for generously offering us a little help here today. They are giving an amazing gift package in honor of Mother's Day, for those of us who strongly desire to lead our children in the way of the LORD, in spite of our own waywardness, tools meant to support our dry bones when we need to hear the truth, when we want to recall His past faithfulness, and when we want to express our desires and sometimes don't have the words.

This package includes gifts for Mom

Reflections from a Mother's Heart

An Invitation to Prayer for Mothers

and

Time With God for Mothers

and gifts for the little ones.

God's Promises for Boys

God's Promises for Girls

God's Little Princess Devotional Bible

and

The Tallest of Smalls

You can win all of them...just leave a comment before midnight on Friday!

by Amber Haines, the run-a-muck

My inspiration for today~~

“The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call to the Lord who is worthy of praise and I am saved from my enemies.” (Psalm 18:2-3)

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