A New Direction

My youngest is about to get his drivers license.  His grandpa bought him a truck and its ALL he talks about - ad nauseum!!   This is, to him, the cusp of freedom.  The edge of growing up.  The freedom to come and go as he pleases (ha, he thinks!!) Freedom.  What does that word mean to you?  When you hear it, what image does it invoke in your head.  Its different for many of us. Freedom -      *from an abusive husband     *from debt     *from a job we hate     *from rules     *from our sins or is it Freedom in something?      *freedom in new choices      *freedom in forgiveness      *freedom in our finances      *freedom in our ability to love      *freedom IN CHRIST You see - freedom can mean something different to each of us based on our circums...

Something has been on my mind lately.  I've pondered it and hashed it out with my mom.  I have gotten upset by it and it even angered me a few times. What is it you ask? Bear with me - I may say something that you don't like.  I may go to a place that makes you uncomfortable or I may be speaking something that you feel is truth. When people who don't live a Godly life say that God is blessing them, I get bunched up inside. When people who outwardly sin - and live their life going against what God has spoken as truth in His word, yet they claim that God is blessing them or how BLESSED their life is, it burns me up. God doesn't bless sin.  He just doesn't.  I think many people tend to forget there is another father - the father of lies.  Satan allows good things to come from your sin to keep you SINNING! God calls us to repentance.  To live righteously.  To live a life free from sin.  Is it possible to follow God's word and BODLY do...

I have a desire.  A dream.  I want to write and perhaps speak in women's ministry someday.  That is something I want.  But is that God's will for my life? I work in youth ministry at church.  I hang out with teenagers and mentor them.  Its pretty awesome and its fulfilling.  Its hard sometimes to know what to say to the issues they have.  Sometimes I want to step in and fix everything for them.   I want to be the fairy godmother that waves a wand and makes everything ok.  But, we don't live in a world of fantasy.  We live in the real world.  A world of broken dreams, disappointment, heartache and failure. I need to release what I deemed my "fairytale" to the reality of my life.  Nothing turned out like I dreamed.  Nothing I dreamed of came true, yet I know I am where I am because it's where God wants me. If all of my FANTASIES had come true, I wouldn't have lived leaning on God. My faith may have bee...