What Becomes Normal………
Dialog With God
Lord I thank you that you have my heart and you hold me safe when trouble comes. You shelter me and calm the storms in my life. If you were not surrounding me, holding me up, my heart would faint and I would fall. Oh keep me safe, hold me tight. I need you. Every breath I take comes from you, I fix my eyes on you. Oh how I long for your courts, take me to the river; the river of life that flows from your throne. Let the wind of your Spirit blow over me. Oh Lord, heal my brokenness, wash over me with the water of your word.
Dialog with God
Oh Lord, meet me this morning before the sun creeps over the horizon, before the birds awake to feed their young and the cattle still rest in the meadow. All is quiet and still and my soul waits with anticipation to hear what you have to say. Delight my soul with your words. I wait with expectancy. I listen with anticipation. Oh delight my heart. Let me see and hear your wonderful words. Speak to me my precious Savior.
Failure, Is it as Bad as it Seems?
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
C. S. Lewis
We live in a world that sees failure as a negative and something determining who you are as a person and our self-worth. Failure lurks everywhere and we strive as business professionals, parents, and teach our children to avoid it at all costs. We stunt their growth when we take over their lives, over-protect them, leap tall buildings adverting any struggle along their path so they never feel the pain or disappointment of failure all out of fear. Inevitably we set them up to fail in ways we never imagined and I have to ask is failure as bad as it seems?
Mom Life: Morning Fog
This morning started out peacefully as I enjoyed time in The Word and a cup of coffee. One by one sounds from kids’ alarm clocks went off alerting me the house was waking. I giggled as each sound from their clocks directly reflected who they are as a child. The morning going well, I sat and continued writing in my journal while waiting for the kids to finish up. The peaceful and flowing morning came to an abrupt stop within a few minutes of leaving for the bus. Oh how things change in just the mere matter of a second!
One of my children came up in a panic looking for an article of clothing I had not seen since several months before. When I explained where it was last seen voices raised and the quietness became chaos in just a matter of seconds. All focus redirected to emotions and the missing piece of clothing. The peacefulness of the morning now gone and thrown out the window with accusatory tones shouted at each other across the room.
What is Love?
The Greatest Gift
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
February Articles
February is full of activities for both family and school schedules! We will post articles and links as we can.
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In the works currently is an article titled “Masks” for And I hope to have it out sometime this week.
Hope this finds your week off to a great start! Thank you for all your support!
Conditioning the Spirit
As I reflect over the past year, one of my most special moments was when my son shared a devotion with me on conditioning my spirit. I was so thankful that he shared what God laid on his heart for me. At that time, I didn’t know God would use this devotion throughout that week and as a lesson for life.
Thank You!
Here’s a big thank you to everyone for reading and sharing Life Unfolded since I began in August this year! I wanted to thank you all for your support and encouragement as I move forth to 2015! I’m so thankful for the opportunity God has given me! Continued prayers and support as I move forth in the New Year and don’t forget to share Life Unfolded with your friends and family! Blessings to all you today and throughout the new year!
Cindy
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 770 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 13 trips to carry that many people.
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