The Strength to Forgive

We've all been there a discussion starts and pretty soon faster than you can recognize it something has been said and the other person is just offended. Then your hurt, then you shout back with a hurtful thing until it escalates or one person just decides to stop.  But then you're left with the aftermath, the fight circling in your head; you're thinking of better comebacks, you're questioning if what was said about you is true, I mean that ugly fight just car crashed your thought life and you're letting it runaway like a freight train......STOP!!!

Don't give any place to anything that's said in anger, especially if it's said by someone who loves you and at the moment you were just disagreeing on something. Odds are that person didn't mean it and just really got caught up in their anger and frustration. That's the funny thing about anger it can wrap around you like a snake and really stay with you for a lifetime, that is if you aren't willing to forgive.

Forgive, forGIVE, give the other person the forgiveness you know that you are supposed to and you will get freedom in return. Freedom from the thoughts that are captive in your head, freedom from putting that fight on repeat all day and just really putting your day in the crapper. Don't blame that person for your bad day. You have the ability to forgive and keep on going about with your smiley  bubbly self! Don't give place to that, don't give anyone reign over your feelings like that, it's only going to be bad for you. I've heard this saying do let anyone or anything live rent free in your head. 

Just remember friends you are wonderfully made and God loves you so very much! Be blessed today and run with it! Love y'all 

That one message

Have you ever gotten that one call, that one text message, or that one piece of information that totally wrecked your mood? Oh my goodness that happened to me yesterday. It just crept up under my skin and consumed my thoughts and cause a ton of doubt in my head.

We are supposed to be firm, standing strong like the palm tree in the midst of the winds. But yesterday when I read that text and grabbed hold of that first un-truth; that storm snapped me in half like a dry tree who hadn't been water in a few days.

I was ashamed I held my head low and I cried it all out. I reached out and told my husband what had happened and he reminded me to be strong,  that along with him, God will always be by my side and that really nothing is as bad as it seems. And in that moment I remembered the Word of God and I felt the calm of peace that only God can bring.   The Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace and remain at rest! Exodus 14:14 (AMP).

Our flesh is very quick to forget the truth and believe any old lie that old snake face (Satan) will tell us. It's awful because I sat in church that very morning. We need to be quick to hold steadfast to God's promises for our life, it can't be that easy for the evil one to steal it from us. And if it is we need to take our self back to the bible and brush up. Jesus died for us to have an amazing life and we can't give the enemy any little opportunity to take that from us. BE BOLD AND STRONG!

I pray that soon I will be strong like the palm tree so that I may be strong for someone, like my husband was for me. I want to be a beam that's firm and planted in cement that always stands on the words and promises of God and his word.

The Lord says, "This is my agreement with these people: My spirit and my words that I give you will never leave you, or your children, or your grandchildren, now and forever."

Isaiah 59:21

The Food Fight

It's starting the get warm, you want to break out the tank tops, capris, and shorts. Oh my goodness what I would pay to wear some shorts. So I settle and wear them only around the house because well I may be strong in some areas but body image well let's just say it's a work in progress.

But really who have I to blame for that? Myself. You know I've thought about eating, exercising, do whats healthy and what is best for my body and it all stems back to you have to want to do it and actually put forth all the effort necessary to see results. So it's not about that I don't want to for me, it's about the effort. 

Being a Christ follower, a wife, a mother, an employee, the list goes on and on, you have to be dedicated to your title to succeed and my main problem is right now in this season in my life being "an exerciser" isn't a huge priority because honestly my time is pretty much pressed anyway.

One of my pastor's was explaining the value of being a doer of the word not only a hearer. This is my problem with exercising and choosing the right food to eat. I'm a hearer but not a doer. Plain and simple.

I read this verse in the bible; I'm going to give you to different versions of the same scripture.

Philippians 3:19 (KJV)
 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Philippians 3:19 (NCV)
 In the end, they will be destroyed. They do whatever their bodies want, they are proud of their shameful acts, and they think only about earthly things.

Now I realize that this can be applied to many different hazardous things that we as humans may do to our bodies but the spirit is speaking to me and my issue with health and food and exercise.  And I know I'm not the only one out there, but I am the only one that I am responsible for. 

God's saying I can't do whatever with whatever I want to end and not pay a price for it later. And this hits me to my core because I automatically think about my family. I wouldn't want my kids to be without a healthy mother because she chose a hamburger instead of a whole wheat sandwich. I would hate to not be able to run around with them, play with them, help them practice for t-ball without me.

So my spirit, my body and my mind have made a commitment to choose  wisely. Instead of drive-thru lunch I will pack a sack lunch, instead of a coke everyday water; I mean after all water is going to help me glow better than any coke every could lol :) But seriously if we make small commitments every day, small changes for a better me, a better you, and if we stick with these commitments, I mean really try hard all we can do is succeed right!?!

And with each success something else can be changed. The thing is to not be discouraged keep on keeping on. And remember always you were wonderfully and beautifully made by our Father God!!!