LOVE'S PENCIL

Just the other day, I was having a conversation with one of my mentors. We were talking about the "absoluteness" of God's love and the spirit of servanthood; two totally different, but well-connected topics. One of the things I previously blogged about was my struggle with approval addiction. I struggled with an unhealthy desire to be approved by people for most of my life, to the point that it distorted my view of God's approval of me. Thankfully, God is now revealing the truth of His love to me each and everyday and one thing I know for sure now is that His love is not based on my performance. There's absolutely nothing I can do or not do to make Him love me any more or any less than He already does. His love is absolute...meaning it is complete, fulfilled and perfect. Follow me. So, we started to discuss how our human nature struggles with understanding and living that kind of love; Love not based on performance, but simply based on choice! We as human bein...

The past few weeks to months, I've found myself reflecting on where I am internally in life and I am overjoyed to the point of no words. I am so thankful for progress! I'm beginning to understand who God is more clearly and more vividly each and everyday. One thing I am sure of now is that He knows exactly what He is doing. I'm excited about life now because I see Him leading me through different situations, opening my eyes to see the truth, fashioning my heart to understand and opening my mind to His limitless nature! I can't even begin to describe how at peace I am with me. I have discovered a freedom in God that liberates me from the attitudes, perceptions and judgement of others that I've fallen in love with the me God created and approves of! For almost all of my life I struggled with approval addiction. I wanted everyone to like me, to love me, to be my friend, to encourage me, or just to be positive towards me in any manner. Well those with some life exper...

Take a look at the picture to the left. I'm sure you've seen this piece of art before, right? It's called "The Thinker". It was sculpted by Auguste Rodin somewhere between the 18 or 1900's. The person depicted in this great work of art is expressing deep thought in both his posture and facial expression. He appears to be exhaustively pondering or meditating deeply on something that has completely captured his full attention and mental efforts. What he's thinking about, I have absolutely no idea. Researchers argue that the focus of his thoughts center around some internal struggle he's supposedly battling with. However, if we never got a glimpse into this man's thoughts to identify the target of his attention for ourselves, we can clearly see that whatever he's pondering has become the focus of his entire being. Would you agree? A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about the recent rise to fame of the notorious an...

  Thursday afternoon I decided to get on my computer and do a little researching about a particular project God had laid on my heart. Although I am extremely excited about this project, I haven’t the slightest clue where to begin.  So, I decided to take some practical steps and start making preparation so I can bring these ideas to life! As I sat at my computer, I actually found a number of online resources that provided very valuable information and detail and laid out most of the things I would need in order to get started, as well as some things I hadn’t even thought about. As I continued reading and clicking from link to link, I realized that there are so many steps to take in order to prepare for this particular project that I didn’t even realize. I immediately began to wonder how in the world am I going to do  all of this . I knew God had given me the desire to move in this direction and he’s given me more than one instance of confirmation. However, as I sat there,...