in an effort to separate ourselves we build walls...





Good morning and happy "tank filling day" you know I love Sunday, a time to fill my spiritual tank so that I can weather any storms that might rain on me during the week. I pray your morning has started off on the right foot and that you are feeling the love of our Savior in every pore! 


In prayer this morning I thanked God for the honor to pray for those who have come in quest for an additional dose of His goodness. I thanked Him for giving me another day to get it right and for allowing me to feel his love and his strength in my body. Father I ask you to cleanse the spirit of those who are feeling detached from You and to strengthen those who have stepped away from you, give them your warmth in heart today that they might realize that the path they are choosing is not becoming of the way you would have them live. Open our eyes father and allow us to see that You and Jesus are the only way...Father please continue to bless my friend Star as she continues to fight the battle of life, bless her each moment with your strength and will. Bless those in need of a healing miracle today, touch them when the need be and allow them to begin the process of healing. Father be with each of us today that we might shine a light for those who are in the darkness, allow us to tear down our walls so that all can see that we carry you in our hearts, let us confess out loud the love we have for you and the knowledge that we have of your promises and your sheer, unconditional love. If you allow each of us to touch the heart of just one person today in sharing our testimony of you our purpose will be met. I love you and dedicate myself to you each and every day knowing that I might stumble but with you I will never fall. In the name of Jesus Christ I ask peace in our hearts, calm in our minds and comfort in our bodies. Amen






The Wall You Built Has Cracks In It

I've done it myself. Maybe you have, too. In an effort to separate ourselves from life for whatever reason, we attempt to build walls. 

These walls are made up of excuses, lies, and denial. Like the ostrich we think by burying our heads in the ground no one can see us. 

Life starts closing in on us and instead of pushing back we begin to limit ourselves. The barrier may begin with a refusal to participate in something. A family party, a gathering of friends. We shut the door and lie to ourselves thinking no one cares. 

"I won't be missed. They don't need me there." 

Then it begins to show at work. We produce less, expect nothing and get nothing in return. We see it as life punishing us and why shouldn't it. We are simply not worthy of it. Or so the lie goes. 

Layer by layer, piece by piece we dig deeper, build higher until we have completely removed ourselves. 

Then while inside this invisible wall we have created we begin to blame others for shutting us out. The perceived darkness comes not from the lack of light, but the self induced blindness created by denial. 

You begin to believe "There's no way out!" "There's no way in." 

But you're wrong. 

There isn't a fortress, there isn't a barrier, there isn't a negative thought, action or ideal that God can't break through. 

Like a leaky basement, a house built of brick, or grave you have mentally dug for yourself, there is always a way. 

It begins with a note from a friend. A knock on your door, a spoken word overheard that grabs your attention and pierces your heart. 

An email from someone arriving right just as you think you have sealed off the world completely suddenly shakes the very foundation. 

In the once stuffy confines you suddenly and dramatically feel a breath of fresh air. There's someone pounding on the walls relentlessly because they know you're in there and they won't stop until you come out. 

Why? Because love penetrates all. It softens the hardest hearts. It soothes the most painful loss. It extinguishes the fires of loneliness and surrounds you like a blanket on a cold night. 

Buried deep in doubt and depression it takes awhile for your eyes to adjust to the brightness and beauty of the day until the very moment when you look around and realize how very much you are needed and the world does indeed have a place for you in it. 

If you shut yourself off. God will break through. He sent me to today just to say "I love you." 

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