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.

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

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."

good song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLsJLzcfrFU&feature=related

one of those days...

yup.

quote.

You are valuable because you exist.
Not because of what you do or what you have done,
but simply because you are.

Max Lucado 


"Hope is not the expectation
that things will turn out well,
but the conviction that something is
worth working for,
however it turns out."

Vaclav Havel


Jesus doesn't give hope by changing the circumstances;
he restores our hope by giving us himself.
And he has promised to stay until the very end.

Max Lucado 

"there is no reason not to follow your heart."

Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs