i am fearfully and wonderfully made

ok sit back relax and check this out:

we tell people things all of the time...(examples):

1. you look great today.
2. you're amazing.
3. i love you
4. thank you for being there for me.
5. i miss you.
6. you're the best.
7. God loves you.
8. you rock.

ok well that is a select few and might only be limited to my own personal vocabulary
BUT
we give and give and give to others...but how many times do we sit back and soak in
what God says to us? about us?

for me--i give and give and give then have given so much there is little of me left!!!
and so i do not take the time to commune, meditate, and just be with my savior, my creator.

so today i urge you. if you are like me and find yourself to have given so much you've forgotten your own heart--
take time for you. because you're worth it. we're worth it. i'm worth it.
say that out loud to yourself. because it's true. and i'll have to say that to myself when i don't believe it
and i pray that you say it out loud to yourself when satan begins to tug at you--when you let satan tug at you.

don't believe the lies that satan feeds you. he wants you weak. he wants you sad. he wants you to not be able to
make a difference DON'T LET HIM! fight for your freedom! fight for the promise Jesus DIED FOR!!!!

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.
I came that they may have LIFE and have it abundantly."
JOHN 10:10

Jesus isn't talking about a sweet little life. he isn't talking about a lazy sit at home and think about me, myself and I life
HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE GREATEST FREEDOM, THE GREATEST GIFT, THE GREATEST ABUNDANCE IN THE WORLD!
the reason we were created! THAT is what Jesus is about,THAT is what satan wants to steal AND THAT is what we need
to be telling the world about!!! not that they are going to hell, not that they want to get to heaven....but that there is an opportunity for abundant life! this side of eternity and the next.

that is why i fight satan and that is why i will tell myself that i am fearfully and wonderfully made! because he who is in me is greater than he who is in the world.1 John 4:4

love and kisses from my searching heart to yours
may all of your wanderings lead you back to the one
who made your heart.

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why

why do we have to do so much this side of heaven.

work work work---school school school

but why. seems pointless in the grand scheme right?

wrong---if you're a believer is Jesus Christ....

I Corinthians 10:31 says,
“So, whether you eat or drink,
or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (ESV).

God is the reason (not just for the season *wink wink*) but He is the reason for everything...or He should be.

Why do we get married? why do we go to school? why do we watch movies? why do we hang out with friends?-----we are glorifying the Lord....not just in our relationships or our actions BUT in how we spend our time. in the joys we partake in. the things we watch, how we live our lives.

as dr. cochran said---you may be the only Bible your friends/neighbors/guy at blockbuster ever read.

let's take the focus off of ourselves and put it back on God.
He's the one who planned this whole thing out anyways.

ponderings

i really really love my brothers:

got two of 'em.

both younger. however both are taller. guess that's what happens when you get older.

daniel is 15 (16 tomorrow!!!)
and joseph is 18 and a senior in high school! (he is pretty much ready for college)

so i just love watching them grow and learn about life. even though the ways in which we learn are less than fun sometimes. i am just proud and equally prayerful about their hearts and their ambitions.

prayer is so powerful. and i say that not only out of conviction but just like the man in the bible who asked for Jesus' healing---he says: Lord I believe...help my unbelief...Lord prayer is so powerful, help me see that it is powerful.

God is so big and so grand and so awesome. i see it all of the time. but does what i see actually sink deep into my soul?

these are good questions. questions i think we all ask in one form or another.

so as the great meg ryan said---goodnight dear void. hopefully someone is listening and if not...at least i am and the big man most def is.

love love

hallow hallow

so my cousin lauren damron brenkle

has inspired me to jump back into the blog world.

with facebook. email. work. school. i always found blogging a little narcissistic....

"hey i'm going to write all about me, me, me. then all of my friends who are bored
or have unfulfilled lives can read my blog and waste away their day reading about mine..."

this seemed a natural outlook when i was traveling in france....because people were asking, "what are you up to?" so i would
proceed their questions by blogging. but in the real world...who wants to blog???

oh how warped was my view.

yes people do waste their days on facebook, email and looking at blogs BUT that is not the point.

the point is expression and communication.

i want to express my days to the world and if i'm the only one who ever reads it...so be it.
but i also want to communicate and if my friends and family (one such lauren) also do this
THEN instead of a narcissistic past time i have joined in with a throng of people just wanting
to stay in touch and share ideas.

great concept if you ask me.

so here are my thoughts to the world. hopefully you do not disapprove of them.
and if you do then your loss.

with love and grace to you, from the great state of arkansas!
;)

carol