blooming ...

 

What a wonderful reminder for us!

 

Nothing blooms all year long ...

not even us.

 

We put so much pressure on ourselves ...

to be the best everyday,

to be everything for everybody,

to have it all together,

to cross off every item on the to-do list.

 

We need to give ourselves a bit of grace.

 

Look around you ...

there is nothing that is always in bloom.

 

Even in nature there is a season of rest.

Allow yourself the same luxury.

 

Nothing blooms all year long,

so don't expect yourself to do so either.

dwell in hope ...

What a wonderful week for us to be dwelling in HOPE!

It's Holy Week. The Week Christians remember all that Christ endured his last week living as a human being on Earth. From entering into Jerusalem in majesty to being beaten, tortured, & crucified on the cross. What a wonderful sacrifice He made for every single one of us.

If the story ended with the cross, we wouldn't have much hope to dwell in.

Thankfully, the best part of Holy Week happens to be Sunday ... the day of the Resurrection! That's where our hope originates! Jesus waking up in that tomb, the stone rolling away, & the eternal life that is promised to all who believe.

Hebrews 6 tells us to run with all we have to that HOPE & hold onto it with our very lives ... like an anchor for our souls.

So, this week ... dwell in HOPE! The HOPE that anchors our souls ... the HOPE that promises us forgiveness, grace, & abundant life!

leave it there ...

 

 

I came across this quote from Elisabeth Elliot this week &

I fell in love with it!

 

Mrs. Elliot is such an incredible woman.

She & her husband were missionaries in Ecuador.

In the early 1950's, her husband set

out to share Christ with the Aucas people,

an unreachable tribe that no one had

met & come out alive.

 

After an initial peaceful meeting,

her husband & 4 other missionaries were murdered by the tribe.

 

Guess what Elisabeth did ...

She didn't pack up & go home.

She stayed in Ecuador &

shared Christ with the people there.

Eventually, she ended up living with

& ministering to the very tribe that murdered her husband

for two years!

 

Isn't that incredible?

 

This quote is such a testimony

of how she lived her life during that time.

 

She left it all ...

her circumstances, her well being,

her very life

in the hands that were wounded for her!

 

It sounds like such an easy thing to do.

Just leave it to Jesus ...

let Him take care of it.

 

I can't count how many times I've

done the exact opposite.

I've wanted to be the one in control

of the beginning, middle, & end of my story!

What I should've been doing all along

was leaving it in Christ's hands.

 

His ways are better than mine.

He knows how my story will end before it

even begins!

 

Trusting Him should be our first instinct ...

not our last resort.