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Get in the wheelbarrow!

yorkieprincess — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:56:44 +0000

This book I am reading talked about the dare devil who would walk across the Niagra Falls on a tight rope. He decided to do one better and told everyone in town that the following saturday he would push someone across the rope in a wheelbarrow.

He was standing outside the pub when he heard one gentleman tell another I believe he can do it and I have this much money to bet. He was amused so he went to the gentleman and said he was so glad the man had so much faith in him, because he needed someone to get in the wheelbarrow! HA!!!

I laughed out loud. That is a great visual picture of what we are supposed to do when God nudges us to follow him. We say all the time we are believers, but are we really? Are we willing to get in the wheelbarrow and be pushed across the millions of gallons of water falling over a cliff? Really?

I sometimes have trouble talking about my faith with people I know and trust. Am I going to put myself out their for perfect strangers to ridicule me too? That is what God wants us to be willing to do. Faith, belief, trust, love… The end result is that God will have a good result. Faith, belief, trust, love…. That is what we are ordered to do. If we don’t we have nothing.

21 December, 2011 16:18

yorkieprincess — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:18:19 +0000

Tis the season!

Hope of Salvation as a Helmet!

yorkieprincess — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:01:23 +0000

1 Thessalonians 5:8 talks about faith and love.

…let us be self-conrolled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate and hope of salvation as a helmet.

The bumpy roads I have been on in the last few months have made me wish I had a helmet. To bad I have been ignoring the nudge of my spirit. I had the armor I needed to shield me against all negativity and harmful thoughts, yet I chose to sit in that dark and not listen to my inner peace.

I am broken free! I have made it through at least a little bit of the muddy water that has been my vision. This new study I am doing is really helping me. And the ladies I am doing the study with are a big help too. Even if I don’t show it, they are a big help to me!

yorkieprincess — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:20:30 +0000

Miss Meri just came around the corner with pen all over her face. Am I to assume she tried to eat a pen or did her big brother help her with this task? Hmmm… thought for the evening!

yorkieprincess — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:50:03 +0000

I was inspired by Romans 8:6 to write this. It’s actually a distraction from my reading assignment!

We are led

We are called

So we head

At times are hauled

Follow the road

Who’s path is rocky

Find a mode

And you’ll find Calvary!

The journey is long

So it’s declared

Often in song

And played on air

Sin is death

The message is clear

To live for self

Means beware

yorkieprincess — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:56:10 +0000

Ok so someone once told me that editing too much can ruin your story. How do you know when to much is too much? You can end up changing the entire structure of the story and then what do you have…another story, right? Yeah!

yorkieprincess — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:58:40 +0000

I feel like it’s my destiny to write. Even if no one else in the world reads what I have to say I feel it in my bones. But sometimes what I am trying to lay out on the paper just plain sounds better in my head! Or maybe looks better in my head would better describe it. My stories are movies playing in my mind, but I can’t seem to write fast enough to capture every detail in written form. This is really something I am committed to work on!

12 December, 2011 17:03

yorkieprincess — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:03:03 +0000

Moment by moment we are supposed to renew our covenant with God. It is more difficult than one would think to keep God in your thoughts moment to moment.

I know in my head it should not be this way, but when the world starts taking up space in my thoughts God is very often pushed out.

12 December, 2011 16:41

yorkieprincess — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:41:02 +0000

This is a pretty powerful message if you listen!

For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under Grace.

Romans 6:14

yorkieprincess — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:11:06 +0000

I added a new recipe to the site. I hope it works well for whatever you are doing today! I am cleaning house and playing with the babies. I am on my second pot of coffee, so hopefully I don’t have a major crash half way through Ben’s school Christmas Program.

Have a great and faith filled day!