Got The Butterfly Award

A fellow blogger from Dublin, Marie, gave me an award last week. Thank you, Marie, for your encouragement and thoughtfulness.

Here are the rules of this award:

• Share something about yourself
• To pass it on to other bloggers

Hmmm, about myself........I love words and their ability to express......love arranging them poetically. I am amazed at how writing and expressing what you feel in your heart can bring so much healing and freedom and even wisdom at times. I love the quite space in my heart and soul when I am writing....it is when I feel the freest and the most vibrant and the most everything. Simply put, I love to write.

There are a lot of excellent bloggers out there who encourage, challenge and bring light to many hearts all around the world. I would love to acknowledge a few and pass this award to:

• BlessedAssurance
• A Meaning of an Optimist
• Cuz You Got to Have Faith
• A Single Mom's Advice on Making Life Easier
• Girl Talk
• To Make A Rhyme

Note: I love butterflies.....love what they represent and their beautiful presence.........I'm actually wearing a pretty silver butterfly pendant as I am typing this (smile).

God bless you all!

How Big Is Your God?

How big is your God? Can he do the impossible? Can he perform miracles? Can he bring the dead back to life? Can he help you pay your bills? Can he heal your broken heart? Can he answer your prayers? Can he give you joy inspite of all your troubles? Today my question to myself and everyone out there is - 'how big is your God?'

Hmmm........my God is real. He is personal. He is interested in what happens in my world. He loves and comforts me. He provides for all my everyday needs. I have been through the deepest valley and some mountain tops in my life but through it all, my God has been my reason for my being. He has sustained me in everything. My God has not only sustained me but his grace was sufficient for me to thrive not just survive. So you see, my testimony is surely my God is awesome! My God is bigger than life itself.

My God is definitely big! He is bigger than all my troubles - past and present. My God is bigger than whatever I face in life. My God is the reason I am filled with joy and I wake up every morning without a dread in my heart. In spite of what has been and is - my God gives me a reason to hope, a reason to sing, a reason to be joyful, a reason to be resilient, a reason to persevere, a reason to have faith, a reason press on - regardless of my present reality.

So again I ask you, how big is your God? Is he big enough and real enough to put your hopes in and to stand on and believe in? Is he just part of your religious practices or is he alive in your heart? Who is your God and what does he mean to you? How real is he and how big is he in your life? Just something to ponder on..........

The God of the bible is still alive and well. He still performs miracles. He still does the 'impossible'. He still parts the 'red sea' and he still raises 'the dead' back to life. God is real. God is awesome. There is nothing impossible, there is nothing too hard that he cannot do. Words do not have the capacity to express all that he is in all his awesomeness, wonder and glorious splendor but to say that he is indeed a 'big' God is understatement of who he is.

So the question remains, how big is your God? Do you know how big he is and how awesome he is? Is your faith in the true God of the bible who is more than able to perform miracles? Do you know the one who gives ife and sustains it?

My testimony today is simply - my God is big!He is bigger than life itself!

God Our Father

When you just think you can't take one more step on your own strength and you feel so weak and vulnerable, the grace of God comes to strengthen you. I have long learned we are not without help or guidance. All we need is to call upon the Lord. He is truly a prayer away.

I am amazed at how God works in our life. When you just think you can't make it or it is too hard, there comes his grace to carry you through your hard times. He provides EVERYTHING WE NEED according to his riches. He wakes us up every morning and appropriates sufficient grace for the new day so we can face whatever the day may bring. One comforting thought for me is knowing that God has seen all my unseen tomorrows and there is nothing that he does not know. So when the future looks uncertain, I am certain in the knowledge that my father holds all my tomorrows and he is on my side.

In these uncertain times that we live in where there is rumors of unprecedented natural disasters and economic instability, it is a comforting thought to know that God's mercy and grace is new every morning and that his constant love will never leave us or forsake us. It is also comforting to know that God is in control and is all powerful when we feel that life is out of control. He will sustain us and he will provide for us. Jesus said if he provides for the birds and dresses the lilies of the field so magnificently how much more will he provide for us.

Today I encourage you to stop worrying about the unknown tomorrows or your finances or your challenges in life and bring it all to God in prayer knowing that the most powerful being is your father. God as our father is the source of all life. He gives us life and sustains our life. He provides everything that we need for life. Life by the way was not our invention but his creation and he sustains it well. All we have to do is just trust in our father and know that he watches over us.

So go forth in confidence in knowing that you will never lack anything because God is your provider! Go forth with joy and peace in your heart for you are loved and will never be forsaken!