Jan 25th Daily Reflection

"Let me love enfold you" - experienced that last night. Yesterday, found a note my 11 yr old wrote that was a bit distressing and I reached out to a few friends to get some guidance on how to proceed and what I found was the LOVE OF THE LORD flowing thru them which got me to a place of peace very quickly. It was as if I experienced both day's message in one. Blessings and love of the Lord flowing thru my friends which I could only exprience because of the trials of the distressing letter!

How are you letting the love of the Lord enfold you?

Jan 24th Daily Reflection

"....Spiritual blessings comes wrapped in trials." this is so true and I have found that when I start getting excited when there are trials, I forget they are trials and it centers me to see the blessings that are within! The more trials I have gotten, the more blessings arrive at my door. Of course, the only way to celebrate trials is to fully give myself to the Lord, unconditionally trusting him!

How is unconditionally trusting the Lord allowing you to see the spiritual blessings in life trials?

Jan 21st Daily Reflection

As my journey to fully trust the Lord continues, I feel that my commitment to this journey is becoming a addiction. However, this is an addiction that I embrace with excitement because I know if I become addicted to the Lord, I become closer to the Lord and the closer I am to him, then better Christian I am becoming!

How is an addiction to the Lord helping you live the good life?

Jan 18th Daily Reflection

Trusting acceptance of all trials....great advice and one I have noticed is very true. If you trust the Lord that all trials will result in blessings, they won't be trials anymore but a pathway to incredible blessings. I keep stressing joyful acceptance of trials, disappointments and failures because if we are in a joyful place when we accept these things, we will realize that they are not really negative but our judgment of them to be negative. They are actually the bridge one must cross in order to reach the blessings the Lord has in store for us!

How is joyfully accepting trials making your life more fulfilled?

Jan 16th Daily Reflection

Rest in the loving presence of the Lord! This is such a wonderful thing to do and the one thing I found that makes that easy to do is by fully trusting the Lord. Trusting so completely that when a preceived problem arises, you immediately offer it up to the Lord. Being in this state has allowed me to see the blessings of the Lord in situations, places and people that I would otherwise have missed. I have been on my journey of fully trusting the Lord for the past 16 days and I will say that it has been lifr altering!

Are you finding time in your life to rest in the loving presence of the Lord?

Jan 14th Daily Reflection

I went for a 50 mile bike ride yesterday as I work my way back to riding 80 to 100 miles in one day. And on my ride, my mind wondered and I was just in the moment. And even though it was a route I rode numerous times before, I saw things I never saw before even though they were always there. It also allowed me to reflect on how weak an individual I am and how most of the time I am clutching the Lord's hand for dear life when others think I am so put together. It made me smile to think how afraid I am of most things and only by the grace of God do I accomplish anything but people think I am some accomplished person. And when I share my doubts and weaknesses they dismiss me.  And I thought, how can the world not see the afraid, frighten person I am? Today's devotion gives me some insight. By being weak and staying close to the Lord, in my case clutching his hand for dear life, I am made strong and what the world sees is not me but the Lord being channelled through me. They are expriencing the Lord through me so they are not really seeing me. This realization is making my hear smile because there is not really a disconnect as I thought, simply people experiencing the Lord!

How is your weakness bringing you closer to the Lord?

Jan 12th Daily Reflection

I use to have detail plans for my life, year, month, week and day. And when those plans would go awry, I would get upset. However, now that I have decided to fully trust the Lord, I have noticed that this planning was a manifestation of my lack of trust. It is amazing that by fully trusting him, my life has become even more fulfilled and the blessings are even better than what I could plan!  I smile now when I think back about all the energies I spent planning when I could have simply offered up my thoughts, wants and desires to the Lord and things would have been more fabulous!

How is trusting the Lord liberating you?