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Reflections

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Reflections on the past, present and future.

Have you ever looked back at someone or some moment in your life and either smiled or cringed?! I was reflecting different moments of my life and I realized certain people represented different mirrors and reflections of myself. The memories turned away from the actual people and turned to me looking into a mirror.

I took a glance back at my elementary years and can see the mirrors of innocence and uncertainty all surrounded in awe. I move to the junior high years and see the reflections of insecurity and defense. As I reminisce about the High school years people begin to wear the mirrors as I look at them. I see one who wore the mirror of immaturity, one who wore “freedom”, and another who had on self-doubt. These faces and places of mirrors continue to grow in my memories and it causes me to reflect upon them.

Many times before, taking this glance back, has caused frustration and unnecessary pain. There have been so many times where I have blamed the person or the situation. Now I look back and see so clearly they each represented something that I was personally dealing with. So many of those memories and those relationships could have gone so differently if only I had paid attention to my own selfishness and issues that were residing in my heart.

Growth comes with time but growth can truly only happen with a heart surrendered to God. God is the only key to unlock the selfless and secure heart. Growth will prayerfully happen until the day we are gone from this earth. My prayer is that the reflections begin to change as we take a glance at the past. I want to look back and see someone sanctified by God’s grace and who daily leans on the Word of God rather than the word of my own heart.

So I am sorry to those that wore those mirrors of the past. Thank you for helping me learn to grow but thank you to the Lord for your grace, love and forgiveness. ❤️

9/11 I think we forgot…

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9/11 I think we forgot… (Images pictured are not mine–public domain) Do you remember what it felt like to watch and listen in horror as the images kept flashing across the screen? I think we forgot… Do you remember when … Continue reading →

International Women’s Day 2019

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We are women because of our God, our Savior, our Father We have power because of His power We are leaders because He is our leader We are gifted because of Him We are strong because of His strength We … Continue reading →

Seeing the green army men

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Here you are sitting at the table, talking to your teenage son about his future goals and it hits you, the realization that you can’t protect him anymore. It’s naive to think you ever were truly protecting him but in … Continue reading →

A C.S. Lewis find

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“Mere improvement is not redemption

‘Niceness’—wholesome, integrated personality—is an excellent thing. We must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our power to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up ‘nice’; just as we must try to produce a world where all have plenty to eat. But we must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world—and might even be more difficult to save.”

C.S. Lewis-Mere Christianity