Fire for HIM

My wedding band at the jeweler's, in a little box, was awaiting instruction from its owner regarding its future shape.  Two prongs around the diamond had been warped...and the ring had to be melted down for repair.  The jeweler said it was opportune time to redesign the setting.  The ring had been left there for four months while I decided what I wanted to do with my precious treasure.  I had to find a design before the jeweler could repair my ring. And then I found myself crying and crying.  I simply could not stop sniffling.  The diamond in my wedding band was lost.  My redesigned ring now contained a vacant setting, minus an ugly center prong in the middle.  I just kept staring at that empty setting, with my terrible decision staring back at me: the center prong.  Mulitiple men at the jeweler's store had told me it was time to repair...

Some people seem prone to frustration.  Lately, the Lord has been dealing with me about finding practical remedies to solve life's little or big irritations.  He has called us to joy and peace.  "I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid."  (John 14:27 NLT) This morning, I did not hear the alarm at all.  I think I had a dream that David's phone was ringing.  Needless to say, we overslept.  While making a mad dash to gulp down breakfast and head out the door, one of our precious ones decided to have a meltdown because they did not like the breakfast selection.  Both parents stayed focused and somewhat calm.  Breathe, breathe, breathe.   Although late to school, at least we had not been locked out.  Yeah! Breathing.  I am still breathing...and so is my kitty.  Yes, next the cat was found trappe...

Suddenly I was given a new perspective... I was reading John 8:1-12.  The climax of this section is the moment of potential stoning of the woman with accused sin.  She had been found in the very act of adultery.  Her body was to be taken in exchange for the pleasure she allowed herself.  Then Christ bends down and begins to write in the sand.  One by one her accusers walk away.  Jesus brings to her attention that all those that have sought to stone her are gone and that he does not condemn her.  " Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." (John 8:12 KJV) My eyes saw these verses in a new light.  Christ was saying in verse twelve that His truth dissolves the accusers voices, even if they speak the truth of our shortcomings.  It is time to silence the voices of accusation today.  The "light of life" is ...

Remember the principle of the apple dropped.  Gravity.  Sometimes life is like gravity.  Today on the way to school, one of my children was facing something they didn't want to do.  They felt stuck and angry.  Another child said, "Look in the sky! Wow!"  We looked out of the front glass of our van, and there was a jet with his smoke trail moving straight upwards into the sky.  It was framed in front of us, as we headed down our driveway.  As we turned toward the school, we discovered the picture of what looked like a flower blooming already painted with smoke across the horizon.  I only have to travel 1.3 miles to school, but by the time I was turning back to go home.  The same jet had already moved all the way across the sky and returned back to move upwards again in the same spot we had seen him when we left the house.  I was stirred to remember that we can hold the hand of the Father and again and again move upwards to...

" But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing..."  - Galatians 4:18 I was looking at my messed up back yard today.  You see, we adopted a dog that loves to dig and dig and dig.  She became violent and went back to her previous owner this week.  We have other younger dogs.  I have been thinking of what could be done to fix our yard to be less of a hazard and also deter the other two dogs from digging, too.  Suddenly, I began to think of our soul, our minds, and our lives.  How often does the enemy come at us over and over and over, making a mess of things...if we give in to his pressure and believe his lies.  What if we allowed the Lord to start things over in our thinking?  I was talking to my sister just this morning.  There is an area of my personality that sometimes irritates me because I see it as an annoyance to others.  She perceived my thoughts by a few things that I said.  Truth began to pour...