Celebrate You

I just want to celebrate you, my friends. I have been blessed so much by my friends lately. And the thing is they don't even know they are blessing me. Everyday I look forward to seeing my friends or just talking with them. So much has been going on in their lives (all my friends from college have gotten married in the past two years) So we've had some celebrating to do. I love being with them and experiencing these amazing life changes with them!! It make my heart so joyful looking forward to the next shower, party, or hang out time. My friends, you are amazing! I love you dearly! And I love celebrating everything that life hands us! Hears to you, my blessed friends!

Freedom in Forgiveness

There is something that is so freeing about being able to forgive someone. Holding on to the hurt, pain, or grudge puts heaviness in your life that can weigh down on the soul. You may not even realize it yourself, but when you are able to forgive you feel freedom that wasn't there before. Forgiveness lifts that off and allows your spirit to be free and to be free to the fullest. Forgiveness allows you to experience the true joy that would otherwise be blocked. It is a hard thing though. Especially if someone you love does the hurting. There is no 10-step program or rules to follow to be able to forgive. It's a hear things. Maybe that's why it's so hard sometimes. It also takes a realization that whatever it is doesn't really matter. It doesn't matter! It doesn't matter if someone said something behind your back. It doesn't matter if someone cheated you, if someone doesn't like you or if someone broke your heart. Not that the pain you felt didn't matter, but that the situation no longer needs to have purpose or meaning to dwell in your life! Forgiveness doesn't mean you don't still have questions, but you don't need or want the answers anymore. They don't matter. God is bigger. When you really think about it, you cheated God, you didn't like Him, you broke His heart. Yet He forgives you continuously. This isn't your show anyway. You are just along for the ride. You can't truly enjoy it if there is something holding you back. Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same. And when you can bring your heart to forgive, you find amazing freedom, true joy, and a closeness to God.

LET IT GO!

My joyful heart has more good news! It has finally been renewed! God is so good and faithful. Even in the times when I wanted nothing to do with Him, He was there and He was working in my heart and patiently waiting for this very day! I feel like I have "let it all go." Not that my heart no longer has questions, but it no longer needs those answers. Especially from this earth. It is a day I really never thought I would see. A friend gave me this poem a few months ago and I didn't think I could ever do it. It just takes growth within ourselves, strength from above, endurance and a little patience. We all have the power! God gives it to us through the Holy Spirit! We all have the power to let it go! and trust in Him!

By T. D. Jakes

There are people who can walk away from you.
And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk
away from you: let them walk.

I don't want you to try to talk another person into
staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to
see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you let them walk.

Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.
The bible said that, they came out from us
that it might be made manifest that they were not for
us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have
continued with us. [1 John 2:19]

People leave you because they are not joined to you.
And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.

Let them go.

And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just
means that their part in the story is over. And you've got
to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep
trying to raise the dead.

You've got to know when it's dead.

You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you
something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift,
I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm
faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me.
And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay.

Let them go!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong
to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to past hurts and pains .....

LET IT GO!!!

If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and

see your worth.....

LET IT GO!!!

If someone has angered you ........

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or
talents ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you have a bad attitude.......

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better......

LET IT GO!!!

If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take

you to a new level in Him......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are struggling with the healing of a broken

relationship.......

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try

to help themselves......

LET IT GO!!!

If you're feeling depressed and stressed .......

LET IT GO!!!

If there is a particular situation that you are so
used to handling yourself
and God is saying 'take your hands off of it,'
then you need to.....

LET IT GO!!!

Let the past be the past. Forget the former things.
GOD is doing new things!!!

LET IT GO!!!

Get Right or Get Left

.. think about it, and then ....

LET IT GO!!!

'The Battle is the Lord's!'

Down in my heart, Hey!

I've got it!! You know the song......

joy |joi|
noun
a feeling of great pleasure and happiness; delight, great pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, triumph, exultation, rejoicing, happiness, gladness, glee, exhilaration, exuberance, elation, euphoria, bliss, ecstasy, rapture; enjoyment, felicity, joie de vivre... (I like to define things!)

Down in my heart!

For the past two days I've had this most amazing joy and peace in my heart. And the most amazing part about it is I know it's from the Lord. I know this because (1)absolutely nothing great has happened the last two days (in fact, I was alone all weekend and I had to get two shots yesterday) and (2)joy and peace like this can only come from a greater power than myself. I'm so excited! Just when I think God is leading me slowly.....one.....single....step....at a time, He allows me to feel this kind of JOY and I feel like He's give me a giant leap forward!!

It's really fun! Praise the Lord!

"Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, never, never, never give up!"

I watched a few movies this weekend. One of them was Martian Child. First of all I really liked it! I got the title from this movie! In it a little boy is adopted by a man who is a widower. The little boy is quite unusual in that he really thinks he is from mars (don't we all sometimes!). Of course the man falls in love with the boy, but the social workers don't think he is making any progress because even after being with his new dad for a while he still thinks he is from mars. So they think they might have to take him away, but the dad tells him that they will "never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, never, never, never, never give up." I'm not sure how many nevers or evers there were but a lot! I've just been thinking about it since. In the longest races, or lowest depressions we have to keep telling ourselves "never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, never, never, never, never give up" and if we can't tell ourselves that all we have to do is listen for God to ever so faintly whisper "never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, never, never, never, never give up" into our ear. We may not even realize He's doing it until later. I didn't. But He is telling us and He DEFIANTLY "never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, never, never, never, never gives up" on us!

And go rent the movie its great!