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This time of year

This time of year

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November always makes me feel just a little more thankful than any other time of the year. I guess it’s because the Thanksgiving holiday is on most people’s minds right now.  I am thankful for so many things…my family, my friends, my home, my work, but I am thankful most of all that God loved me so much that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to the cross for me. When I remember that…it always makes me want to do better.

I feel like we are on the verge of something so much bigger than us. There are obvious reasons for that feeling…namely, this last election. Well, actually the last four years, this pandemic, and everything else in between. It has been a time of awakening. A time to deal with the things we have been ignoring for way too long, and it’s time to just do it differently. 

Yesterday, I spent the day volunteering for an organization called, Fayette Street Outreach. It consists of local residents who have banded together to clean up and bring opportunities to their neighborhood. I think that’s what this last season has been all about. We have to stop playing the blame game, and waiting for someone else to do it. It’s time for healing to begin in our land.

In order to get there though, we are going to have to focus more on God’s plan. Proverbs 16:3 says, “Commit your works to the Lord and your plans will be established.” Good ideas are not necessarily God ideas. Staying focused is going to be important in this new season. We have to get back to the basics of loving and caring for one another. We are our brother’s keeper. What happens to you, should affect me. We are in this thing together, and it’s going to take all of us to make it better.

I am so excited to see where God is leading us, and I am so thankful that we are all on this journey together.

Until next time…

Be blessed.

Can God Really Use Me?

Can God Really Use Me?

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My last few posts have talked about our destiny, our faith, and God’s grace toward us. Thinking about that has me wondering exactly what God sees in me. Why in the world would He want to use me? I mean, I mess up…a lot. I hardly ever go from point A to point B. I like making turns. So, I usually end up taking much longer to get to places than I’m sure is necessary. I don’t know why I do it. I don’t want to do things over and over, but I find myself having to repeat certain lessons because I only listen to half the instructions, or I don’t listen at all. Pray for me…

I’m just thankful that God uses us just as we are. Even with all of our baggage, He finds value in us. God takes all of our experiences and teaches us how to use them so that He gets the glory, and we get the blessing–for ourselves, and others. God uses everything that we have been through to lead us to our place of healing, and wholeness. The crazy thing is that it happens so gradually sometimes that we barely even notice.

Our lives mean something. We are not defeated; we are not rejected, and we are not mistakes (even though sometimes it feels like it). We are made perfect through Jesus Christ. And because of that, God connects our hearts to His. He does it in a way that allows us to step out of who we are, or who we used to be, and into who He has called us to be. He uses our everyday living to slowly transform us into the image of His Son, which in turn blesses someone else.

So, I guess God can really use me. He uses all of us…even when we don’t realize it. We belong to Him, and He will always have a place for us, and work for us to do.

Until next time…

Be blessed.