Saturday, January 28, 2012

psalm 139

Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

wise words, wise mama.

"Jai Ho." Victory, healing, and transformation are not one time events. When we experience a "win" in life; we finally say "no", we finally say "yes", we finally stop drinking, stop smoking, make it to the gym 6 days in a row, have daily prayer/meditation, take our vitamins, get to a yoga class, refrain from gossip, practice self control, refrain from road rage or from freaking out on someone t...hat "pisses you off", when we choose gentleness over harshness, when we finally forgive and let go of bitterness, we can be sure that our "wins" will be challenged again. There will be many victories on the road to health and transformation. Don't be discouraged when you face the same "temptation" over and over again. "I thought I already dealt with this, why am I facing this again? I guess I really wasn't healed, I guess I didn't have a break through like I thought." Hold on to your victory, your health, your spiritual and emotional healing even when it seems you are facing "it" once again. It's a journey, never give up, you will be victorious...."Jai Ho" means "may victory be yours." (Luke 4:23 NLT) "When the devil had finished tempting Jesus, he left him until the next opportunity came.". Even Jesus had to face "it" over and over again. Jai Ho..."
-sue berger

Thursday, January 19, 2012

reading a good book.

"Because real risking in faith can occur only in those areas of life where we feel most impoverished and vulnerable, it never becomes something we are really comfortable with. For each layer of trust that builds up, another, most challenging risk is offered. True faith choices, therefore, always feel like risks they just go on, involving deeper and deeper levels of our being. Each choice remains difficult; what really becomes conditioned in this process is simply our willingness and readiness to take the risks of faith. They never stop feeling like risks."


"Obedience goes before our hearts and carries them where they would not normally go."



"You must, by the grace of God, do the thing you cannot do."