A New Direction

Its hard to do isn't it?  Sit still. Listen. Wait. God tells us to Be still and know that He is God.   It's hard in this fast pace, achievement driven world, to be still and hear what God is wanting to say to us. God goes on to say "I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth" God has the whole world in His capable hands.  Why do we feel we have to keep doing more and more? You know them - the workaholics.  People who work every chance they get to make more, be more, to say they achieved more.  But, what are they missing out on?  A relationship with the almighty God?  Their families?  Life?  They are building up treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy.  And at the end of it all, can they take it with them?  At the end, what matters the most? That they worked every chance they got and missed out on what God was saying to them?  Or that they had more numbers in their bank ac...

You've said it -         Someday: I'm gonna find what I'm looking for I'm gonna get married I'm gonna go on a mission trip I'm gonna have that new car I'm gonna have a bigger house Do we ever say TODAY I want to live?  Today I will tell someone I love them.  Today I will spend more time with my family instead of working extra hours for that new thing.  Today I will find satisfaction in my life by serving God more.   Its become a time in our world where we hear daily of tragedies, killings, accidents and death of loved ones.  This weekend a young girl lost her life because she chose to drive in a car with someone who was impaired.  I'm sure she never said "someday I want to make a choice that will end my life".  No one wakes up and says "Today I'm going to die".  We all live for someday. BUT, what if we lived for today? Don't spend today looking at tomorrow.  What if we looked at each day for...

Elsa: "don't let them in, don't let them see.           Be the good girl you always have to be           conceal don't feel           put on a show           make one wrong move and everyone will know..." I'm not ashamed to say I love Frozen.  As I sat at work today and listened to the songs, this verse in "For the First Time in Forever" struck me.  Elsa has been shut up in a room for her childhood...hiding a secret no one knows.  The time has come where the gates have to be opened...its time for a change.  Anna, her sister, is elated!  Excited to explore, learn, feel, and expand her horizons.  Elsa is scared because that room is all she has known. Elsa reminds me of me -  and many Christians I know.  We wear masks so no one knows how we really feel.  We don't w...

Hillsong United is a worship band from Sydney, Australia.  I've been reading through a devotion on my YouVersion App called Hillsong Worship, No other name - the Overflow devotion.   I've had a rough month of feeling God's presence in my life.  People, situations, and circumstances have cluttered my mind and filled my inner soul with too much stress and confusion and I've been unable to feel the Lord.  I love worship and decided to do this devotion to help me feel closer to the Lord. I sat at dinner with a friend last night and pretty much dumped everything in her lap - what I've been going through, things said to me, hurts and fears.  I felt so bad that I did that, but I've held it all in - tried to deal with it on my own.  I was "lamenting" to her.  The book of Lamentations was written by Jeremiah, who was "lamenting" the destruction of Jerusalem.  The book is partly a traditional "city lament" mourning the desertion of the ...