It is about to get real …
Just please pray …
God is going to move mountains and I know that it is all for His good.
Amen!
Tag: Viewpoint
COURAGE: 2019
#Courage is my word of the year 2019
#Courage to step outside the box
#Courage to be salt and light
#Courage to give the gospel message
#Courage to begin the next phase in my academic career
#Courage to live my life as God wills it not mankind
#Courage to speak my mind in truth, love, and hope
#Courage to know that different opinions don’t diminish my own.
#Courage to resist the urge to give up
#Courage to act despite the fear
#Courage to persevere in my studies
#Courage to pray where it is needed
#Courage to be a mentor
#Courage to keep on being a #Warrior
#Courage to go where God wants me to go
#Courage to stand up for myself
#Courage to protect what God has given me
#Courage to accept what God says no to
#Courage to show love to those who need it most
https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-courage.html
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Joshua 1:7-9 ~ GW
7 Only be strong and very courageous, faithfully doing everything in the teachings that my servant Moses commanded you. Don’t turn away from them. Then you will succeed wherever you go. 8 Never stop reciting these teachings. You must think about them night and day so that you will faithfully do everything written in them. Only then will you prosper and succeed. 9 I have commanded you, ‘Be strong and courageous! Don’t tremble or be terrified, because the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.’
Control…
Now I’m all grown up… Control… as some of the lyrics to Janet Jackson’s song course through my brain… I am realizing how much control I do not have.
I do not have control of how my Professor chooses to grade and critique my assignments
I do not have control over how long it is taking the online tutoring center to review final term paper
I cannot control that it will take possibly until 10 pm Saturday night to have the paper in review form
I can however do this..
I can control my reaction to my frustration levels as it is building more inside of me.
I can release my need for control to God and let Him do all things in His timing and not mine
I know that God is my guidance and for the others who are on my team
I know that I cannot fight but go instead in peace knowing I have done the best I can for now
I can pray for patience, for my anxiousness to subside
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Ephesians 2:19-22(ESV)
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
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Gathering, Learning, Giving, & Letting Go
Well after a busy last couple of months, I am back…told you I
would be terrible at keeping this up…but life happens…and we move forward with
new things on our mind…trying to find that one moment in our daily walk where
all is right with the world and we can breathe again.
would be terrible at keeping this up…but life happens…and we move forward with
new things on our mind…trying to find that one moment in our daily walk where
all is right with the world and we can breathe again.
For me that is my hearts devotion. To find my time with the
Lord, center myself, and claim my space in His vast universe.
Lord, center myself, and claim my space in His vast universe.
This Fall 2018, this beautiful season that we are heading into…it
is a time for reflection…gathering, learning, giving, and letting go.
is a time for reflection…gathering, learning, giving, and letting go.
Gathering of the memories I’ve garnered over this past year
and making sure that I won’t forget the lessons I’ve learned about myself.
and making sure that I won’t forget the lessons I’ve learned about myself.
Learning to complete the task that has been given to me. Even
though the process may be hard it is going to be worth it in the end.
though the process may be hard it is going to be worth it in the end.
Giving of my time to my family, my church, and my community.
Making an effort to be present in each situation. To be that listening ear, to give
my advice when it is asked for…and to make others know that their lives matter.
Making an effort to be present in each situation. To be that listening ear, to give
my advice when it is asked for…and to make others know that their lives matter.
Letting go…boy this is my struggle…daily, weekly, monthly,
yearly…etc. Let go and Let God is the big one that is said…but in reality, is
it really done? Because…me, myself and I…stew on things, knit pick, try to find
a way around or thru…and place myself where God should be. Lord have mercy, I
really am trying to be better in this.
yearly…etc. Let go and Let God is the big one that is said…but in reality, is
it really done? Because…me, myself and I…stew on things, knit pick, try to find
a way around or thru…and place myself where God should be. Lord have mercy, I
really am trying to be better in this.
I’ve been working through the book of Colossians these last
couple of weeks. And really have come to respect what the Apostle Paul was trying to say to
this city church. I’ve garnered a new sense on what God has given me to do, for
His Kingdom. That this season will not only be one of harvest but planting in
different ways.
couple of weeks. And really have come to respect what the Apostle Paul was trying to say to
this city church. I’ve garnered a new sense on what God has given me to do, for
His Kingdom. That this season will not only be one of harvest but planting in
different ways.
He is writing to the church he planted in Colossae,
wrote unflinchingly to remind the parishioners of their need to get back to
what they have learned. Reminding them all of the Father and the Son have done
for us, and what they deserve in kind from us.
wrote unflinchingly to remind the parishioners of their need to get back to
what they have learned. Reminding them all of the Father and the Son have done
for us, and what they deserve in kind from us.
Colossians 3:12-15 ~ Good News Translation
“12 You are the people of God; he loved you and chose you for
his own. So then, you must clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness,
humility, gentleness, and patience. 13 Be tolerant with one another and forgive
one another whenever any of you has a complaint against someone else. You must
forgive one another just as the Lord has forgiven you. 14 And to all these
qualities add love, which binds all things together in perfect unity. 15 The
peace that Christ gives is to guide you in the decisions you make; for it is to
this peace that God has called you together in the one body. And be thankful.”
his own. So then, you must clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness,
humility, gentleness, and patience. 13 Be tolerant with one another and forgive
one another whenever any of you has a complaint against someone else. You must
forgive one another just as the Lord has forgiven you. 14 And to all these
qualities add love, which binds all things together in perfect unity. 15 The
peace that Christ gives is to guide you in the decisions you make; for it is to
this peace that God has called you together in the one body. And be thankful.”
May we all be thankful that we are given time to be with our
loved ones and our community. May we
all find ways to gather, learn, give and let go.
loved ones and our community. May we
all find ways to gather, learn, give and let go.
God bless,
Lea Marian
Wrapping up Spring Semester 2018
TWO MORE WEEKS:
Just two more weeks … and then Spring 2018 will be in the books … and I will be moving on into my last five classes and final two semesters for my Bachelor’s…
AACCKKK! Excited, nervous, ready to be done…
Here’s the thing…
I am so blessed to be going to a University that is God-fearing, Bible believing, and willing to help when I have even the silliest of questions.
When I started this renewed journey to finish my education in the Fall of 2015 I never thought that this would be the time I would be done…
But it has, and I want to thank all who are praying for me, loving me, supporting me, and pushing me through.
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My Viewpoint is this…
So … I don’t know how consitent this blogging is going to be as my plate is full … with my full-time school work, taking care of my family, working on my knitting projects (or crochet) and becoming more than just an on-line believer.
I am grateful for a resource that let’s me express myself in longer written form.
When ever the Spirit moves me I may just jot down a few thoughts on my smartphone’s version of this blog…or I may get on here and make a stand on how I see things and hope they inspire you to think.
Someone on the news the other day on MSNBC (I believe it was Tiffany Cross) said that Conservatives lacked intellectual curiosity. Well, if you know me…and even if you don’t…this brought my hackles up.
As a Women, Wife, Mother, and Voter since 1989, I have looked at both sides of the voting coin…and sometimes I have strayed into independent land…but a majority of the time to me Conservatives make intellectual sense.
They are for smaller government, the soverignty of each state in America, free enterprise, and independent commerece, right to life from conception to grave, the Constitution and all it’s amendements to be interpreted with the historical content and future consideration in mind, to realize that judges interpret the law they don’t make the law, the seperation of powers, the freedom of religion not from it, the right to fly the flag of the U.S. of A., the respect of all veterans and the sacrifice they and their families made for our country…
and guess where I learned all this…by using my mind and reading many history books…not just the ones that were printed in the last decades, and working towards my minor in History so that I can work with Veterans and other individuals our country has neglected as a Chaplain. I have been a voracious reader all my life of fiction and non-fiction, I have read autobiographies and romance novels…but still the greatest most educational book in my life will always be the BIBLE.
So to Ms. Tiffany Cross and all the other psuedo-intellectuals who say that Conservatives don’t have a mind and that women are cooerced by their husbands to vote Republican (that’s one my favorites) I have a mind of my own, I choose to use it the way that God guides me to use it… and I’ll never be ashamed of who I am or what I stand for…
