Some of my favorite

quotes, that I have made some graphics for.

Loss is never easy....

Today my daughter found out that she and her husband lost their baby.  Having lost one of my own, it doesn't matter how far along you were, it hurts deeply.  Praying for my sweet girl and her husband. 

Great song to bring some hope:  The Hurt and The Healer

Why?
The question that is never far away
But healing doesn't come from the explained
Jesus please don't let this go in vain
You're all I have
All that remains

So here I am
What's left of me
Where glory meets my suffering

I'm alive
Even though a part of me has died
You take my heart and breathe it back to life
I fall into Your arms open wide
When the hurt and the healer collide

Breathe
Sometimes I feel it's all that I can do
Pain so deep that I can hardly move
Just keep my eyes completely fixed on You
Lord take hold and pull me through

So here I am
What's left of me
Where glory meets my suffering

I'm alive
Even though a part of me has died
You take my heart and breathe it back to life
I fall into Your arms open wide
When the hurt and the healer collide

It's the moment when humanity
Is overcome by majesty
When grace is ushered in for good
And all the scars are understood
When mercy takes its rightful place
And all these questions fade away
When out of the weakness we must bow
And hear You say "It's over now"

I'm alive
And even though a part of me has died
You take this heart and breathe it back to life
I fall to your arms open wide
When the hurt and the healer collide

Jesus come and break my fear
Awake my heart and take my tears
Find Your glory even here
When the hurt and the healer collide
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Jesus come and break my fear
Awake my heart and take my tears
Find Your glory even here

Everything changes...

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.  Hebrews 11:8


Abraham is counted as the most faithful and "faith filled" man in the Bible.  His life was filled with miracles and He honored God.  But I can't help but to wonder, if sometimes, in some of his quiet moments, did he look up ask God for just a little insight.  "You know God, I'll follow You, but it would be really nice, if You would show me the plan."

Hebrews says by faith Abraham obeyed.  He went out, not knowing where he was going.  That takes faith.  That is the faith I want to have. 

I admit that I like a plan.  I like to have everything scheduled and in order.  I love the details! So, I will also admit that when God set's change in place in my life, I get very uncomfortable.  I find peace and comfort in having a plan, in knowing where I am going!

Several of the women of our church are spending time doing Lisa Bevere's study Lioness Arising.  I LOVE what God is doing in this group of women.  I love what God is doing in me.  But there are definitely winds of change blowing through as well.

I do not think God wants us to find complacency in our life.  If we do, we look to Him less. I think God allows and even places situations in our life that stretches us.   He wants us to be so dependent and so faithful to Him, that we can just "go" wherever He wants to send us, even when we do not know where that is. 

He calls us out of our comfort zone, to be used to do something for His Kingdom that is beyond anything we could ever imagine.  He wants to use everything we have, even the smallest ability to do great things for Him, in order to reach the lost and the dying world around us.  We must be obedient, we must walk out in complete faith.  That is so hard, but when we do, oh what God will do with and for us!

God is doing something in me.  He is doing something in the women and men of our church.  He is doing something in our church.  I do not know exactly what it is and where it is going to carry us, but I am more willing than ever before to be stretched, and pulled, and placed in uncomfortable places, in order to allow God to use me, all of me, for a purpose beyond anything I could ever imagine.

What does God want to do with you?  What are you holding onto that is stopping you from stepping out?  Won't you join me and take that journey into the unknown... Be an Abraham!