A Red Bull Moment

It's the end of the school year, baseball and t-ball seasons are underway and this Momma is thinking to herself why o why did you over extend yourself? And you know to be honest because I want my kids to have any opportunity they can. I just wish it wasn't at the expense of my rest or mental health. But the truth is it doesn't have to be at the expense of anything. 

God gave us Jesus right. So how come we only think Jesus can help when something is uber-serious? I often forget to just go through my day and talk to him, tell him thank you, let him know I may be feeling a little stressed or as if there are not enough hours in the day. My goal is to include him more throughout the day so I can draw my strength from him. So he can give me my second wind when I'm trying do do laundry and tidy up my messy house right before I leave for a game or practice.

He can renew our strength like the eagles right? (Psalm 103:5) So why do we not take advantage? I think my honest answer is that verse isn't deep in my heart YET! But it will be and I'm working on it just like we all are working on becoming the people God has called us to be. Let's use that verse today and everyday when we feel we may need a "red bull" moment; how about let God give you wings instead! He totally can!!

You guys are beautiful love y'all have a great day!!

Marvelous Monday

So it's Monday morning and I'm at the intersection of Grimes and Turner waiting on the red light. I'm just singing along to K-Love drinking my orange juice and I happen to just glance in my mirror and see the woman behind me. I couldn't help but notice her face, she didn't look excited to start her day she almost looked like a robot just going through the motions of her day. So I was curious to see what other people looked like around me, so here I am probably looking like nosy Nancy. And to my surprise everyone around me looked the same way. Unhappy, no smile on there face, no goofiness going on, no singing along with the radio.

Then I had a thought, a thought from God. These people aren't happy to be alive, they aren't singing along with the radio because they are more than likely letting the things of this world steal the promises that Jesus has died for.

So I take the time to just say "Thank you God for giving me another day, another day with my husband, my kiddos and anyone else you place in my path today" I'm at work now and still thinking about that woman in the car behind me. I don't know her name, I don't know what she maybe facing but I'm going to pray for her today. I pray she wake up and smell God's amazing coffee and I pray that I see her again but with a grin from ear to ear.

My point today is don't get down about what may be happening today, or what situation you may face. Because honestly its just a phase, something that will only last for a little bit, but God's love, his grace and his favor that's forever. Take that promise ladies and run with it! Be the amazing women you were created to be or men, if your a male and reading this! Lol!! But seriously live out this day to the fullest after all it's the only one of its kind! Love y'all have a marvelous Monday! :) 

Everyday Things

The Lord is great and worthy of our praise no one can understand how great He is!  Psalm 145:3

We have all seen the beauty of a sunset; the oranges, yellows, reds, purples. We have all been driving looked up for a minute and caught the awe of the puffy white clouds.

When I see stuff like that, God's beauty, just all around me I mean take a look at the flowers their colors and how beautifully they are made. You can be at Wal-mart waiting in line and there could be a beautiful baby with chubby cheeks and think God had his hand in that.I mean how many people can say or even take credit for creating such beauty? GOD can!!!!!

The Lord our God is truly great as the scripture says and yes there are things about him we may never understand but that's the beauty of it. It's there because he loves us because he wants us to take advantage of all the good things he places in our life. Every good thing!!!

I mean have you ever woken up and just been like thank you Jesus for my eyes, thank you for allowing me to see another day? Or how about the fact that you have clothes to put on your back or arms and legs that function in the way God made them.

I can personally tell you I want so badly to involve God more in my everyday ordinary things. I mean yes I pray daily and yes I try and train my ear to hear the guidance of the Holy Spirit. But I want to be on of those women of God who before starting anything prays or thanks God for a blessing. I want to pray over the cupcakes I'm making my sons class that they be yummy without fault and that no fat cell stick to not one body. I want to include God in all I do. Not only just when I need him.

I'm challenging you to think about everyday things we may take for granted. He is the author and founder of the life he has given us the world and more. Take it!!! Praise Him!! Love Him!!! Shout it to the ends of the world spread the good news!! He has done amazing things for us all!!

Let's be in agreement and try to keep one another on track and not let the little sillies wreck our day but to find beauty in everything we lay our eyes on!!

Perfectly Imperfect

We have all been there frustrated with the way the day ended. Maybe your husband just made a comment and you took it out of context. Maybe those kids are on the last good nerve you have. Maybe you have eaten well all day then fallen off the path. Maybe your boss or co-workers just ticked you off in the worst way.

Well I am here to tell you to not be discouraged.  We all have off days. Days where we are going along just peachy keen and wam bam we are thrown a curve ball. Boom. Let me tell you, that curve ball is just a trick from the old evil one himself. Don't give into him.  That's what he wants just one little avenue into your life to wreck the rest of it like a dozen kids running crazy through a clean house. Wam dirty. Don't let him dirty up your life. God said that his grace is enough for us. That when we are weak His power is made perfect within us so that we can be strong. GO look up 2 Corinthians 12:9

When we feel our husband, our kids, our job, a family member, a stranger, food, smoking, drinking, any bad habit brought forth trying to seep in and cause havoc; memorize that verse where we are weak God will make us strong.

My children, while I love them to pieces, sometimes they challenge me in ways I couldn't come up with even if I tried.  But they are helping making my imperfections perfect. They are tools God is using to mold me into the woman he created me to be.  And yes at times I am very imperfect.. Yes I may yell when I should be calm and level headed. Yes I may throw my own form of a tantrum. But I don't ever loose focus of that patient always loving, always soft toned mother I know deep down he has made me to be.

And that's the point.  We need to never loose sight of the end goal. We can't let imperfection steer us back into the dark.  NO WAY!!!Take those imperfections hold your head high and know that when you are weak God's only making you stronger.

You are going to one day have the ability to be strong, beautiful and graceful all because right now God is making you perfectly imperfect.

You are truly amazing!! Don't let a little set back tell you otherwise. God doesn't make junk. You are beautiful and loved like my pastor says you can take that to the bank!! And I pray each one of you who reads this does!!

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!!!