Just Something Personal

This morning I stopped to get gas. Something every one does! Fill up your vehicle and go about your way. But this morning was different. I pulled up to the pump, shut my truck off and asked the attendant to fill it up. I sat back, looked down at my phone and when I looked up I saw something that changed my whole day. Something that changed my whole attitude. At first I just saw a man, speed walking, with a coffe in his hand, enjoying the beautiful spring like day God has given us today. As he started walking past I noticed something that really hurt my heart. I saw this man walking along the road with no shoes on his feet. He was barefoot. (I can't even type this without tearing up a little) This man was walking; where I don't know but he seemed determined to get there. Did he even have a place to go? Or was he walking in hopes some one would stop and notice him. Well, Sir, I noticed you. I noticed you needed help and were hoping for a better day.  Those who ...

Last week sometime, I stumbled across a  InTouch.org  article about mothers. It caught my eyes for obvious reasons but also because I was looking for something that could relate to me and my life. Well I started reading some of it and unfortunately I just left it and starting doing something else. I felt God calling me tonight to just set aside time for Him. I fought Him for a little but I decided to listen.  What I liked most about this article is that it focused on mother.. not parents, but mothers. It's some times hard for me to relate to text that have to do with parents. So when I come across things like this that focus on just the mother, it catches my eye, and helps me focus more.  The title of this was A Mother's Greatest Gift .  Which is of course, sharing Christ with her children. My son has always been in church, bible study and around Godly people; and he is only 2. I love that I am able to raise him in such a healthy and encouraging environ...

Tonight at bible study one of the women said she needed to remind herself to pray for herself. Set time to pray for you. That stuck out to me because when I pray I feel like I pray the same list every night. It gets repetitive and starts to lose it's true meaning. I believe I need to start praying for myself more and my faith.  It's always good to pray for family and others but when my strength in my faith isn't as strong as I know it can be, I think I should focus more on that.  The Lord proclaims, the Lord who made the earth, who formed and established it, whose name is the Lord : Call to me and I will answer and reveal to you wondrous secrets that you haven’t known. (Jeremiah 33:2-3) I have a vision on who I want to be and I need to pray for that, more meaningfully and with more power. I need to start praying more and consistently without losing it's meaning.