silent night

Hi Everyone,

Happy Christmas and a Merry new year!

I just wanted to share a few about the Lord with you.  A lot of the time I have trouble sleeping, and I know one of the reasons for that is my wild imagination. Sometimes it leads me down the wrong path but sometimes I can imagine things that help me sleep.  I find that what helps me most is when I remember I am in His holy presence. I am at the feet of Jesus, before His thrown. Though the silence He assures me of His abundant love for me and of His gracious mercy, He reminds me He has conquered the world and all of it’s troubles.  I respond by gratefully giving Him the body mind/ heart/soul He made me and the life He gave me to serve my Master.  Then I can rest peacefully for He is trustworthy and deserving of eternal glory.  It’s like I am resting on an alter to the lord, a living sacrifice of love and worship.  My loyal satisfaction comforts me.

In the church where I grew up the youth group often went on a mission trip to Mexico. I always wanted to go but couldn’t. Now years later I get to go on a mission trip to Mexico.   I never expected it. 

God is so awesome! 

Will you praise the Lord with me? 

Personal Revolution

How many of my readers love Winnie the Pooh? Pooh bear had a thinking place, a place where he would go think…think…think of something. While in my thinking place I remembered that I can serve the Lord by serving others. That means anyone I meet I should treat with love.  Including family, friends, acquaintances and enemies.  To the best of my ability regardless how I feel.  Lately I’ve been so stuck up, I’ve been complaining about the world’s problems as if I could solve them. The world is greatly flawed but I want to leave the world to its Almighty Creator! I feel like such a selfish fool, I wish God was standing right in front of me so I could collapse at His feet in utter guilt and submissive surrender.  I long to serve God, and I realize that to do that I need to serve others and God will free my mind from selfish thoughts; I know my soul will feel so much better.

I relate to these Lyrics by Charlie Peacock 

In his song “Personal Revolution"

Jesus, if you came to give life abundantly, then how do you respond to all the pretense that you see?
Do I break your heart by all the faking that I do?
There are so many places I haven't let you into.

I'm so tired of all these easy solutions,
I can't stand it; they're nothing but denial,
I think I need a personal revolution,
How can I expect the heart to sing when I don't let the soul ever feel anything?

It's like pain and pleasure walking hand in hand, like a clown in makeup laughing,
You might never read their face, but buried in their soul is a dark and painful place.


Whatever the pain, today it's just as real,
We don't talk about it, we don't trust, and we don't feel,
Are we so afraid, if our soul was ever known, nobody would love us, we'd be rejected and all alone?

If we continue to pretend, the pain will never end,
To pretend that we are fine is a trick of the mind,
Do I turn my back on God when I speak honestly?
Though I'm quick admit the problem is me - that's right.

I'm so tired of all these easy solutions,
I can't stand it; they're nothing but denial,
I think I need a personal revolution,
How can I expect the heart to sing when I don't let the soul ever feel anything?
When I push the pain down and I hide it away, I'm storing up trouble for another day.

Personal...personal revolution,
Do we want to...do we want to live this way anymore?
Personal...personal revolution,
There's a change... there's a change a-coming... a-coming down the road,
Personal...personal revolution,
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