July 26th Daily Reflection

Relax and let the Lord lead us thru life! Smiling because I reaping the blessings of adhering to that directive. I have found making plans to the extent that it establishes guard rails is all I really need and the Lord usually works out the details in a manner that showers me with blessings beyond belief. How is your trust in the Lord impacting your planning?

July 25th Daily Reflection

Today marks a year since I have been blogging about Jesus Calling Daily Reflection and I smile when reading today's devotion because what I got a year ago is not the same thing that I am getting from the reading today. It is amazing that you can read the same book, passage, devotion over and over and depending on where you are in your life, you get different meanings sometimes vastly different ones! I will spend my day looking for all the messages the Lord is sending me because I know that he is always guiding and consoling me and it is up to me to look and listen. How are you using your day to find the Lord's messages?

July 24th Daily Reflection

Being thankful opens up the line of communication with the Lord and if you are in constant communication with the Lord, all you see are his blessings which puts you in a state of thankfulness. Now the question is which comes first, being thankful or being in constant communication with the Lord? I believe that since it is most difficult to be in a constant state of thankfulness, that is where one should focus their energies. Where do you think one should start?

July 23rd Daily Reflection

Sometimes we look at our lives and are overwhelm by the things happening and we let this feeling of overwhelm-ness get the better of us, however, if we stop for a moment and offer up a pray of thanksgiving for the source of overwelm-ness, we open our heart to see the light of the Lord and the darkness that accompanies the overwhelm-ness is removed. I experienced this, this pass weekend and the excitement I felt after praying made my moment of overwhelm-ness disappear. I was also able to see I was feeling overwhelm because I was more concerned about looking good than be authentic in what I wanted to do. Being able to get back to my authentic self was part of the excitement. I smile when I think about how easy it is for the Lord to fix everything as long as we remain in a place of spirituality and not be concerned about worldly things. How are you keeping the light in your life?

July 20th Daily Reflection

As I continue my quest of not complaining I am starting to get a small glimpse of the glory of heaven on earth. Today's devotion is truly on point to say that the Lord has hidden heaven in our heart and as we open our heart to the Lord, the glimpse gets more frequent.

July 19th Daily Reflection

As I read today's devotion, I couldn't help but smile. Yesterday, I decided I would stop complaining and whenever I found myself complaining, I would stop and start over again. One of the things that comes put of not complaining is your fear and anxiety goes away because everything that happens is great. And fear and anxiety is a reslilt of thinking something bad happened and worrying about the consequences of the bad stuff. However, without complaining, there is no bad stuff and if there is no bad stuff, then there is nothing to fear, no fear no anxiety. It's interesting how as you go along the path of root cause analysis, the apparent problem is actually a symptom of the actual problem. How are you working to get to the root cause of what is keeping you from the Lord?

July 17th Daily Reflection

Looking to the Lord, staying close to him and rejoice for all the blessings even the ones you would prefer not to have! The interesting thing is if you truly embrace this way of being, you start to realize that everything that happens in your life is a blessing and getting upset is a sign of being ungrateful and thinking you have full control of your life. Of course, this requires that you live in a spiritual world while being in a physical world - a difficult but impossible task. How are you being spiritual in a physical world?