Inspiring moments that move through me...

Without getting to 'preachy' I just have to thank God that I have been SO blessed in my life. I have had many ups and many downs and the great thing about the ups is that they are SO up! It's like being high on life. I thank God everyday for my husband, my family, my house and even my cat. All the things that HE has given me and I wouldn't have any of it, if it weren't for Him. 

This week is a truly special week for me and many other Christians. Good Friday is coming up and this symbolizes a huge day for us. This is the day that Christ gave his life for all our sins. Then on Easter Sunday he rose again in fulfillment of scripture. This time right now is VERY important to me because being human we are natural born sinners and God sent his ONLY son down to earth, to dawn our flesh and live a sinless life to die on the cross for OUR sins! I mean....let that sink in for just a few minutes. He died....FOR OUR SINS! So that WE may have eternal and everlasting life. 

According to the bible; the wages for sin is death, and because Christ died on the cross for us, we may seek forgiveness in Him and be cleansed of that sin. Not without consequence....but we may still look to him in forgiveness and have enternal life. Talk about the greatest sacrifice. 

I hope all of you are spending this amazing holiday with loved ones around you and you can share with them these accounts and inspire everyone around you to seek out Christ in these most uncertain times. 

Be blessed. 

What I am giving up for lent....

So I realize Ash Wednesday was several days ago and I really should have had this picked out before now. While I was at church this morning Pastor Ed preached about something that really hit close to home and subsequently I have decided to take it personally and then what I wanted to give up to lent came to me in his sermon. 

Pastor Ed is an amazing speaker and I love going to church to get the word of God and this week was no different. Today he spoke about slander. Slander meaning 'gossiping', talking about someone to keep them down, telling the truth - but not the WHOLE truth. 

I myself have participated in the act of slander, by gossiping about someone, talking down about someone, reading celebrity trash blogs or watching TMZ. It makes us feel good to kick someone while they are down, but who are we really fooling. It's cancer for the soul. So for lent I have decided to give it up and hopefully make it a forever thing. From now on I promise that I will not participate in the act of slander, by either committing the offense myself, witnessing the offense and not standing up for the offended or simply watching it on TV. 

With all the debauchery and depravity going around in this world, I certainly don't want to add to it, or allow it to continue to happen around me. It's a simple thing to live without....but it will be hard because we are born to sin and it's so much fun to commit slander, Pastor Ed said....but I promise to do my best to remove this from my day to day life. 

I will plant myself in the house of God and become a flourishing olive tree.