Journey On….

Your destined purpose is rarely in the same place where your value was created or increased.  A diamond is created in the earth, but its value is determined once it is faceted and presented to the world. 
 
A clay pot does not serve out its purpose on the potter’s wheel.


Journey on…..

 

Cultivate Your Field

Been there done that…it serves it purpose for a while but don’t EVER, I said don’t EVER forget that you have dreams too that need to be cultivated. Don’t work so hard in someone else’s field that you forget or are too tired and bitter to tend to your own. Don’t allow someone to make you feel guilty for wanting to step into the purpose that God has destined for you. It is NOT selfish. At the end of the day, I want to be able to stand before the Lord and tell him, Lord I did want you sent me to do and because YOU already know my heart, I know you know that I really did try my best……….

Potter’s Touch

Your destined purpose is rarely in the same place where your value was created or increased.  A diamond is created in the earth, but its value is determined once it is faceted and presented to the world.

A clay pot does not serve out its purpose on the potter’s wheel.

Journey on…..

Getting To “This Place”

As I was driving into work this morning I was blessed to hear this song on the radio and it really got me to thinking.  So many people, are looking for the place that this song speaks of and all I can say is keep living, keep trusting the Lord, and keep your eyes on Him and one day before long you are going to look up and find yourself in “this place”.  Those of you who are going through heartaches today from losing a loved one, a bad relationship, an illness, rejection or simply not being where you know you should be… the pain will stop, the tears will cease to fall, and one day you are going to feel a flutter in your chest and no, it will not be a bubble!  lol… it will be your heart coming back to life again, it will be coming off of cruise control and will start to feel and love again.  The key is not to let the storm clouds keep you from your journey.  Get an umbrella, put on a parka, gather up your rainboots….do whatever you have to do but keep pressing on.  Don’t sit back and watch others bask in the sunshine of their journey, if you give up now the only thing that you can do is wish that you were there.

There is a line in this song that says, “until I found Jesus, I never thought I’d be in this place”. Let me make this very clear, you can have Jesus in your heart, mind and soul and still not be in this place. The key is that you trust that your journey with Jesus will bring you to this place. I love the Lord with all my heart, I make every effort I can to follow his Word and I am not in “this place” and that is okay. Even with Jesus in our lives, there will be dark days, but I would rather face those dark days with the Light of the World in my heart and as my guide.

I see my “this place” on the horizon and I am pressing on…….

Real Love

Real love…..
I think sometimes that real love gets overlooked like vegetables. Sometimes the people that are best for us in our lives are treated like….I don’t know, like a beet or a Brussels sprout. Little do we know that if we take that vegetable and season with a little of who we are and a little of who they are that there could a fabulous gourmet recipe for a good life together….gourmet food takes time and commitment. Unfortunately far too many people opt for the drive through at Wendy’s……..just pondering.

Not Who I Was

It is funny how the adversary will continue to do the same things in an effort to knock you off course. The things that I used to get mad at, irate at…..I just kind of shake my head now and move on.  This afternoon a notion passed through my mind that said in order for me to “have anything healthy”, healthy relationships, healthy affiliations… etc.  that I was going to have to completely separate myself from a person that I have known for almost 20 some years.  I kind of tucked that away in the back of my mind until stumbled across something this evening that confirmed that notion.    I have come to the conclusion that there are people who don’t want you to be okay because they are not okay themselves and sometimes you have to leave people where they are at and pray that they look in the mirror…… not to straighten the mask that they wear, but to take it off and look at themselves and the things that they knowingly to do others to cause pain, division, or just being manipulative. The spirit of provocation is alive and knocking at the door, but I refuse to answer it…..I am not perfect, but I thank God that I am not who I was…. 

Good Soil

Some men and women (sorry ladies!) are like simple farmers.  A simple farmer will be standing on good soil, warm and rich, deep beneath their feet ready for planting, but the simple farmer refuses to work the land.    If you know anything about farmers you should know that they know their land and what they don’t know they spend time with it, look for changes, watches how it responds to certain things.  They have a relationship with their land.  Sounds weird but it is true.  Hey you with the dirty mind!  Stay on the clean side of the street there buddy!  lol

A friend told me a few days go that relationships should be easy, there should be no work.  What!  I  agree to a certain extent.  A relationship with someone should not be some laborious call of duty that you check in for day in and day off.  Oh no – I am running away like Forrest Gump from that.  There is however, a certain kind of work that doesn’t seem like work at all….there is a quiet joy of getting to know someone and growing to love them more and more everyday.  The work should be fun with things like making dinner together, Redbox nights, late night phone calls, random good mornings texts, trips to the museum, or just people watching at the local shopping center.  It should also be a healthy balance of being a part and just being you sometimes….that will make the time you spend together so much more special.

Sadly, people don’t want to take the time to experience the magic of  two hearts opening up to each other.  It doesn’t happen overnight, it happens over time.  Time is the sealant between each moment and lays a foundation for what will hopefully be a lifetime of love, traditions, and memories.

Don’t be a simple farmer….if you have someone that you know is “good soil”, it might tender well to explore and create opportunities to see what type of harvest you could make together.   So often we gravitate toward people who we have that “connection” with right away.   I just don’t want a connection, I want a masterpiece, built over time and strong enough to withstand that storms of life.

A connection

A Masterpiece   …see the difference?

Mother Bear

I have held my peace with a person for well over a year. Tonight, I found out something that involved the safety of children, which put me at my limit. I went off….not completely off but just enough for some good footage (yep). This person proceeded to video tape me as I was yelling at him.  Just like the devil, trying to make a big deal out of something that you did in response to his abuse, negligence, and manipulations.  So sick of seeing and hearing abuse. I am sick of a person tolerating abuse for the sake of having a man in her life and not for the safety and mental well-being of her children. I am sick of the isolation and destruction that came with this thing… this thing that clothed itself and posed as “love”. Quite surprised at myself because “old me from way back and around the way” would have opened up that “special can” to take care of business but I think God snatched that from me a while ago. Say what you want.  Cast that first stone, but I will not apologize, ever, for standing up for children, no one should.

You and I

I heard this song playing on the radio while riding home a few nights ago.  After watching this video I love this song even more.  Isn’t this what every women wants to hear and know?  With all of the things that women go through, it is an absolute blessing to have the man in your life understand and still know in his heart that you are the most amazing and beautiful woman for him.    I don’t know when that will happen for me… I pray that it happens for you and  if you have this type of amazing love and acceptance from the man in your life, treasure it with gratitude, and reciprocate it with grace.  

We Both Know

Woke up not long ago with this song in my head.  Beautiful song.

Someone on YouTube ask what the first verse of the song was saying this was my response:
I will explain what it means to me…”They all say it, all the ones who made, once you find the one you claim it but you’re gonna have to fight.  When I think back, the things that threw us off track, we handled like a heart attack cuz we didn’t see the light.”

Sometimes love is easy, you fall right in and sail on.  Other times, the love is there, but there are obstacles that you have to fight through in order to come together.  Sometimes if you are not careful, you can deal with those obstacles in a way that is damaging to your relationship (handle them like a heart attack) and fall a part instead of becoming stronger together and really seeing the light in your love.  This is what I know- there are pages in my heart that speak to this all too well.

Funny how a song can capture the unspoken words of the heart……..