Tag: life

Pray, love and forgive one another!! ITS A MUST

February 15th, 2024

Happy Thursday People! Praying for our families is a must! Praying for others families is a must as I think we should send prayer up for one another as often as we can! I pray for my family every single day sometimes 2 and 3 times a day depending on what is going on! I think we all have more praying for us than we realize! If you are being disrespectful or upset with family, friends or even strangers …. How can you ask God to answer your prayers when you can’t be a good human! Don’t be disrespectful to people and by that I mean quit picking and choosing who you are respectful and disrespectful towards we should help one another no matter who it is! We pick and choose who we like based on what.. what they did what someone said they did well better look in the mirror because I promise you have made mistakes that I’m sure you do not want to be judged for and I’m sure someone has said something negative about you to someone else which I’m sure you want people to defend you! Gossip doesn’t have to be true it just has to be said then the ones who don’t like us spread it like wildfire… let’s spread good news not bad and let the devil do his own work without us!! Pray for one another and pray for you yourself as we all need to be loved forgiven and guided and I for one need it daily and im thankful my God is a forgiving God! I’ve learned if I want to be forgiven and loved by God I need to give that same respect to others and I’m working on that as I know sometimes it’s hard when we keep trying and trying and get nothing in return but disrespect in so many ways but dont give up because our God did not give up on us!!!!! I hope everyone has a blessed day ❤️.. I know I am!!
Valentines Day Love… wow what a love we have in Jesus! He loved us first so we could love him back unconditionally!! ❤️

February 14th, 2024

Happy Wednesday aka Valentines Day People! This day is filled with love and we can see it all around us with all the flowers candy social post ..everyone loves! Imagine if our every day lives were like today 🥰… we can’t see our God but we love and trust him unconditionally … why because we know the truth.. he loved us before we loved him! We live in a world that is harsh fast and full of misconceptions and people not being honest so we have grown to question everything and everyone! God is real and God is here and wants you me and everyone to be happy and full of life but we can’t do that without our God! God smiles down on us when we praise and love him and we share his word I can just see his smile get bigger his heart swell with pride because he knows we have arrived! When you finally get off that fence and make a decision to follow God and don’t let others keep us from it is when the real joy comes into our lives and then we see more and more! It’s hard to explain but when you feel it and let it go through you I promise you will never be the same and although people will try to keep you in your old life and old ways doesn’t matter because YOU know where you are and God knows and the ones who don’t want to believe well that’s ok that’s their choice but it doesnt have to affect you and your journey! ❤️..

1 John 4:20 NIV
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

We all need to read this every morning because It will changee your life. There is so much hate in todays world and not just strangers its in our families in our friendships In our work places it’s everywhere and why… God gave his life for us and this is how we are choosing to live??? If people would communicate and let their guards down to love one another and let hate and jealousy go we could be here for one another and help when needed and just love wow what a world that would be! I love life and I try not to question everything and everyone as I use to judge and question everything as that is what life taught me but I found a better way… God … God is a better way!! If no one tells you today that you are loved and beautiful well I’m here to tell you I love you and life is great give it a try with God today on Valentines Day… Wow what a love we have in Jesus!!!! I hope everyone has a very blessed and love filled day ❤️.. I know I am as it started with my God! ❤️
Shone bright as our Lord does!

February 12th, 2024

Happy Cold Monday People! If only we all could only see things through the Lords eyes and hear things through the Lords ears what a different place it would be for all of us! We all assume so much we hear and see so much and it’s always different versions so we never know who to believe who not to believe and we make the best choice we think we have and sometimes it’s wrong! I do think we have all been hurt lied to used at some point and it’s hard to trust others and sometimes we show that! Give people a chance as we shouldn’t treat everyone like our past as people deserve Chances. I do believe we are here to help share Gods word and give love and forgiveness and help where we can! I believe if we are vessels for God he will give us more and more to help others with! That help could be time, money, listening, giving a hug giving a helping hand as there are so many ways God needs us to help with others! Is it obvious you love and trust our God and is it obvious that you want to do better and help others? I think we all want to be seen having Gods light as I know I do! I try to help others and share Gods word and sometimes that isn’t easy but once we get over the fear of others the world opens up! These postings I do is for me to share positivity and Gods word! I am no bible scholar and I don’t know all there is to know about the Bible but I do know our Lord and I do know right from wrong and my postings are my thoughts and opinions that have come from my own life experiences and what God has done for me hoping to help someone else as life is not always pretty and we all mess up we all make mistakes! I don’t care where you are in life or what mistakes you have made it is never absolutley never too late to turn to God or back to God to get on the right path either for the first time or the 10th! See today through God and see how that changes your day! Have a blessed and warm day ❤️.. I know I am!
We are all human and mess up… do not let it keep you down … get up!!!

February 11th, 2024

Happy Sunday People! We are all only human and that ugly flesh comes out and ever so quickly even though we try to keep it back! It’s ok don’t let that keep you from our God because that’s why we have Grace.. now I’m not saying go out and do things on purpose just to ask forgiveness that’s different.. I’m saying when we are letting God lead and we mess up or get mad or lose our temper or make a wrong decision don’t give up on life just talk to God ask for forgiveness and then do better than you did yesterday … None of us are perfect and we all mess up but for us to keep trying to be better than we were thats change and God sees that! I know my God is here I know he has grace and forgiveness for me and you and I hold tight to that! When that flesh peaks out just start praying before acting and Gods peace will come down but again don’t give up because you mess up keep going life and people are worth it! If you messed up and it’s weighing you down today is the day for forgives and freedom.. pray and ask God to forgive you and cry out to him and then get up go our an do better and let that thought of failure go today .. I promise if you do this and actually let it go your day will be blessed and you will feel better for yourself and all those around you! Have the most blessed day ❤️
DONT LOSE WHAT YOU HAVE LOOKING FOR WHAT YOU WANT! LOVE

February 9th, 2024

Happy Friday People! LOVE… I will have to watch this one as I could talk about this for a long long time but I will try to keep it from being a novel lol! This is so accurate as we think someone doesn’t love us because they don’t do what we think they should do then they in return think we don’t love them because we don’t do what they think we should be doing! Love is in so many forms and we should all recognize all of them but sadly we don’t! Doing things for someone is one way and just saying I love you means more to someone than the other! It is hard as the ole devil wants us to think someone doesn’t love us and our mind starts going down that hole and before you know it we have convinced ourselves of all the negative! DONT LOSE WHAT YOU HAVE LOOKING FOR WHAT YOU YOU THINK YOU WANT! Many times I think we may have what we want and just do not realize it until you lose it because you keep looking for more! I have so much love to give and I may not give it like you think but I promise it’s there. Most of my life I was looking for something but never was right but it was a lot of my side not thinking I deserved it maybe or maybe it was there I just couldn’t see it .. I am not sure of the past but I can tell you it’s there when you finally see it feel it and have it! My Kevin Bontrager loves me in so many ways and I 100% know it! We may not be your “normal” couple 😊.. as Kevin is 20 years younger than me and we are as different as day and night ask anyone 🙂 but it works beautifully and we had no idea what would happen when we started this almost 7 years ago but here we are and it’s better now than 7 years ago! When we met we were friends and friends of friends but when it became more it scared both of us as we thought how in the world will this work and no one will a accept it but it did work and we both felt it from the beginning! Kevin is a great man he loves our Lord as I do, he works harder than most I know, he does all he can for me whether it’s starting my car or building or fixing something for me and he tells me daiky how much he loves me and how proud he is and I treasure that daily! I go to work he goes to work and we never worry throughout the day about the other and a couple of checks throughout a day with a text then we meet at home whatever time we meet as we both have long days! Nothing compares to knowing when I get home I have the love of my life waiting on me and it makes me feel content and safe! When you find your person do not let them go do not take them for granted as you need to nourish it and keep it going! Love your people whether its a spouse, child, friend whoeber it may be give to them what you can …. give grace and forgiveness give help and most importantly time give time! I hope all of you take a hard look of who you have around you and make sure you let them know how important they are to you and what they mean to you I promise it makes a difference! I received a text yesterday from someone (You know who uou are 🥰) and it made me feel good from top to bottom all because she told me how she had watched what I was doing ovwr the last 10 years and she looked at me as a role model and I had absolutely no idea she felt this way.. imagine how that motivated me to do more and more and realize how much of a difference we make without even knowing it! I love you big and I know you will do great things as you started at a young age ❤️! Go out today and help someone or tell someone how much they helped you it matters! Sorry not so short but shorter than it could be 🙂
Pray more, worry less and let God give you peace!

February 8th, 2024

Happy Thursday People! It is up to each one of us if we choose to worry or let God have it! We all have worried and still do but we also know that solves absolutely nothing! If you are worried about something pray and give it to God and go about you day with a smile on your face as God will get you through it! Like this says if we worry we are down we are grumpy and we get grumpy with others for no reason and I know we all do it myself included! I have learned to go at it a differentt way only wish I had learned sooner than I did but I’m just glad I got there! Give your worries over to God and be happy with the day in front of you I promise it makes a difference. As you go through your day pray every time a worry comes up and God will give you peace until you get through the worry and you will as “this too shall pass” and it does! I hope you all have a blessed and worry free day ❤️
What if today was your last day on earth and you knew it!!!!

February 7th, 2024

Happy Wednesday People! This hits home with me more and more as I grow older which I know is a privilege! Life and people are good although sometimes we make life harder than it should be because of pride or anger or jealousy or whatever it may be but it doesn’t have to remain that way! How different would you live if you knew without a doubt you only had one month to live life… I don’t know about you but my life would be different as I would make sure to spend my time wisely and with the ones I love more and more! Is that different than how we live right now maybe but I think we would want to let go of any anger towards anyone and tell people we love them and tell people we are sorry for whatver wrong we may have done we sre sorry we didn’t do more or whatever it may be! We focus too much on things that really don’t matter while the things that do matter we overlook because well so many reasons! I think sometimes we all think we will do that tomorrow or the next week well we really don’t know if we have tomorrow or the next week and when we are gone we will be in heaven living our best life but the ones left behind will be the ones suffering because they will wish things were different they will wish they had said I love you they will wish they hade made mends they will wish they had done more trust me you will and at that time you cant change it as its done its final! Live your life today as if it were your last and see how your day changes from the normal every day life! Life is so good and people are good and people should get together with family more and more we should have Sunday dinners again as we can rest later we can clean later … family and friends gathering laughing talking helping one another is what is important! Don’t wait too long as we never know when our last day will be! Love today and live today and be blessed ❤️.. I know I am!
We all stumble .. it’s how we deal with it afterwards that matter!

February 6th, 2024

Happy Tuesday People! We all stumble I know but we shouldn’t dare let it drag us down or keep us there! In todays world there is so much going on with many many people but we can embrace it and let it work for us instead of against us but I believe we can only do that with God leading us! I have a lot going on myself but I wouldn’t change it for anything as I know my God has this and me and he’s leading me where I need to be! When something happens in a day don’t let it ruin your entire day shake it off and continue as it doesn’t deserve more time it deserves to be given to God and let him handle it! When we worry it changes nothing although hard to let go there is a way… I can tell you I went through a situation that I really didn’t understand why it was all happening and honestly still don’t today and it bogged me down and I let it because it involved people I loved and still love today but I found peace with it through my God! I cried many nights and prayed and worried and guess what it changed nothing so I began to ask God different questions and he answered them and he gave me peace! It’s still there and I still pray for change but we can’t help how others feel or treat us but we can help how we deal with it. We should never let someone else ruin our day week month year or life in general if someone doesn’t want to be a part of your life you can’t make them you can’t change their minds only themselves and God and can do that so I finally realized give it to God, move on and live your life! Life is good and we all have so many things and people to be proud of don’t stay stuck because someone else doesn’t like how you do things or how you live or respect you or how God made you… be proud of yourself respect yourself and the right people will be there. It’s the loss you deal with but if you can’t change it why worry about it because that doesn’t change it either! Incase you haven’t heard it lately you are doing great and you deserve to be happy and have people around you that love and respect you as I promise you have more than you realize if you stop focusing on that one or two that do not want to be a part of you but still you dwell on just those individuals .. let it go love them pray for them help them when needed but don’t stress over what you don’t have love what you have and thank God daily for answers coming and they will be there! Let God carry your burden today over and over and see how better your day is for that I promise it gets easier the more you rely on God and the more you just love yourself and live! Just simply be today, be happy and go forward the rest will come with prayer as God is always right and always has a plan! Have a beautiful day ❤️.. I know I am!!!
REDEEMED.. by our God!

February 5th, 2024

Happy Monday People!!! REDEEMED…. Thankful for my God and all he does and will do to help me through life! God is with each one of us if we let him be as we can shut him out and I can tell you life isn’t great without God leading! We all have things that happen we all make bad choices we all take the wrong road or say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing no matter who you are we all have this but we also can all be redeemed! I’m not saying go out and make mistakes on purpose and our God will forgive that’s not how this works we all have bad days but we learn! Ask God to redeem you today and go out do better with all aspects of your life as I try to do better everyday than I did the day before! If you stop and think about all the ways God has helped you it would probably be overwhelming but I do think we need to remember all that God does as a reminder of where we should be and what we need to be doing! God had someone call me not too long ago out of the blue who said they received a text from me asking them to call me which I didn’t but come to find out she had some pretty valuable information I needed to know a family member was safe and neither of us had any idea of why that call was important until we started to talk! This person was the one person who could tell me my close famijy member was ok before someone else asks me because she was there and had she not called and told me I would have panicked more than likely not knowing! Come to find out that text was sent over a year ago and somehow it popped up as if it was that moment! Tell me there isn’t a God and I will 100% tell you that you are wrong! We all have our own opinions no doubt but having God in my life is the most comforting thing there is above all else! If you don’t know God you are missing your greatest life ever! If you don’t know how to know God ask someone read the Bible or message me and I promise you will not be disappointed! Go out today and look for God in your daily walk I promise he’s there! Have a beautiful day ❤️.. I know I am!
KNOW YOUR WORTH!

February 4th, 2024

Happy Sunday People! Know your worth! Not everyone does including myself as growing up I didn’t think I was worth much didn’t think anyone else did to some degree and as I grew older got married had kids got divorced still didn’t know my worth! Be around people who lift you up who tell you your worth who push you to be your best and who are proud of you and most of all make sure you keep God at the front because without him none of that matters! When we do not know our worth we look for worth in others and lift them up and why we don’t do that with ourselves at a young age is beyond me but we don’t know what we don’t know! We all should know our worth from day one but the world is hard and will beat us down as well as people will do if we let it… key phrase … “if we let it” and trust me I have learned not to let it…. it took me awhile as I am 54 years old and only learned this a few years ago.. KNOW YOUR WORTH IT MATTERS! Your worth is Jesus’ own life. Just like Jesus’ worth is fixed and doesn’t change depending on the opinion of others, your worth is also fixed. Meaning, your worth never changes to God. Your worth is rooted in something much deeper than someone’s opinion of you, your worth is rooted in the unwavering opinion of God and that my fiends is what matters and once we realize that wow does life change!
When you know your worth and use it to help in Gods work wow what a difference life makes and we help others who use to be where we were! Now remember there are people who will not let you forget your past as they like to bring up past mistakes even from 20 years ago trust me I still hear it today and I will be the first to tell you I have made my fair share of mistakes but that doesn’t define me and you shouldn’t let your mistakes define you either! We live grow make mistakes learn and as we get older we learn more and take it to heart! Don’t let others keep you from loving yourself and don’t let others keep you from Gods kingdom it’s your life you know the mistakes you made you know you learned so go out do better and live your life for you as the past is the past! God loves you and I and he knows the mistakes we made and he knows the ones yet to come because just because we learn and grow doesn’t make any of us perfect but we live differently and it should show! Love yourself live life and be around people who love you for you and help you in life I promise it matters. I will be around people this morning at church and lunch that make me feel like I never made a mistake and they love me and they are proud of me including my Kevin Bontrager and for that I’m thankful as I love all of them more than they will ever know! Go out today and and thank God for life and love the ones you are around and have the best day ever ❤️.. I know I am!