Simple Thoughts

A few days ago, I was traveling on the interstate to go to a city 3 hours away from home. It was just me in the car. I was rocking out to my music and enjoying Jesus. All of the sudden, I noticed something. In front of my car, passing in front of my windshield… was a butterfly! It seemed like quite the contrast. Me – driving approximately 70 mph on the interstate, and this butterfly – taking its time in travel, flight. Have you ever noticed that when butterflies fly, they seem to take their time flittering about, looking for the flowers they want to land on? They don’t exactly strike me as the insects who are zooming about in such a hurry. Life can get so busy. There are so many reasons to rush about, going from place to place, appointment to appointment. But I felt like that butterfly on the highway, was God’s little reminder to me… “You can be on the highway of life. You can be busy. But in your busyness, you need to slow down. Enjoy the beauty God has placed around us. Searc...

You know those people who seem to never fill up their car all the way with gas and they just seem to live on Empty? The last few months, I have found myself filling all the way up, and then driving until I am dangerously low on gas and THEN filling up again. But the other day, I did something different, I filled up when I was only ¼ a tank full. I wasn’t empty yet, but still decided to stop and get gas. That got me thinking. So many Christians live their life on Empty. They may be low in energy or low on time, in the same way that people who usually live on empty with their physical cars are short on money. They may not have time or energy to expend on their relationship with God, spending intimacy with Jesus, to refill the tank of their spirit. But those very people who don’t seem to have the time and energy to encounter God are usually the ones that feel rushed, the world may be crashing down around them, and they seem to live their busy life without joy and without hope. We ...

I want to be a mother of a nazarite nesting ground - a place to raise up prophets and nazarites and children and youth who are set apart, Holy unto the Lord. I want to be apart of the Adoption Revolution. I want to live a culture of LIFE that appreciates and values a LIFE regardless of color, ethnicity, mental capacity, or age. I want to rescue babies from the jaws of the death of abortion through adoption. I want to change the world around me. One child, one youth, one life at a time. That's what I want.

Excerpt from “Christmas Reformation Long Overdue” by A.W. Tozer … In our mad materialism we have turned beauty into ashes, prostituted every normal emotion and made merchandise of the holiest gift the world ever knew. Christ came to bring peace and we celebrate His coming by making peace impossible for six weeks of each year. Not peace but tension, fatigue, and irritation rule the Christmas season. He came to free us of debt and many respond by going deep into debt each year to buy enervating luxuries for people who do not appreciate them. He came to help the poor and we heap gifts upon those who do not need them. The simple token given out of love has been displaced by expensive presents given because we have been caught in a squeeze and don’t know how to back out of it. Not the beauty of the Lord our God is found in such a situation, but the ugliness and deformity of human sin. Among the harmful abuses of the Christmas season in America is the substitution of Santa Claus for ...