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Figure Out Love?

Me With My Nephew "Willie Joe"!

I have spent a good bit of time during the last couple of months thinking about love.  And I have discovered that love is the solution to so many of our problems.  Love is the answer to so many of our questions.  When we learn to receive love and return love, then we are living according to our created design.  Love is the key that unlocks the door to the possibilities and potential that God has put in each one of us.

When we experience love and express love, we are living in the flow of Who God is!  God is love!  We know Him and experience Him as we allow ourselves to be loved by Him and as we express this love back to Him and others.

Love is one of those words that we throw around with a lot of carelessness.  It is one of those words that we love to go running to for comfort.  Real love is so much more than a word.  Real love is action!  It is the action of getting from God and giving back to Him and others.  If we love God, then we will love others!

I’ve got some work to do on experiencing and expressing love!  I have not got it all figured out, but that is okay because He loves me anyway!  And because He loves me, I am going to work to try and figure this thing out!

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Bummer Day!

The way I Feel!

Have you ever had one of those days when everything starts out good and then it takes a left turn and heads down hill?  That was my day today!  I got up early, had a good time with God and then went to the hospital to try and be a blessing by trying to bring a little peace and comfort to a lady that was having surgery.  Then a headache hit and started to grow and made me totally useless for the rest of the day.  (Have not had one of those suckers for such a long time!)

I can’t stand days like today, because I get almost nothing accomplished on my to-do list.  Which means that tomorrow I have twice as much to get done.  I don’t like it, because it makes me feel useless.  As if the headache did not make me feel bad enough, I then start to beat up on myself because of an unproductive day. And then it hit me!  The reminder of what I already knew!

My day being productive is not based on my to-do list!  My day being productive is based on God’s to-do list!  At the end of the day we may have everything checked off of our to-do list, but if we have not accomplished what God created us for, then that is when we really have a productivity problem.

A to-do list is a good thing!  The most important thing to have on your list is what God wants and has for you to do!  So, the next time you are having an unproductive day, just make sure that you take the time to think about what it is that God has for you to do.  When you discover what God has for you to do, then do it and you will watch unproductive day become productive!

Before I go to bed – I’ve got a few things to do!

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Answered Prayer!

Hope Showing Love!

Prayer Talk! Let’s talk a little bit about prayer!  Everybody knows that they need to pray, but most never get around to really doing it.  And those of us that do take the time to pray, often do not do it right!  I am not being critical, just stating a reality that we need to accept, so that we can change and grow in our communication with our Creator!

God’s Answers Prayer! When I read through my Bible, it becomes very clear that God answers prayer!  I think many times our failure to get a response from God is really our failure to talk to Him.  You see – a lot of times we talk at God instead of to God! We talk at God by giving Him our list of request, demands or deals – whatever you like to call them.  Prayer is so much more than just talking at God.  Prayer is talking to God, which means that we talk and listen.  To talk to God is to have conversation.  To talk to God, we have to know His will.  To know God’s will, we have to spend  time in His Word.  If you don’t feel like God is answering your prayers, then make sure that you are talking to and not at Him!

Let’s Work To Grow In This Area! We look at this a little more tomorrow and hopefully it will grow our communication with our Creator!