How Great is our God.......

I am so amazingly blessed this year! As I look forward to my birthday only a few days away I realize how many blessings I can count! Some so small and many so big! My life is so full and while busy and crazy it is amazing.

So what do I want for my birthday? Well God has gifted me abundantly this year:
1. My family and I are all healthy, no seizures!
2. We have a beautiful new house
3. We are both employed
4. Our family has once again grown and Hailey is amazing

I could go on and on but I think you get the idea. So what more could I want? God blesses me daily and his gifts are so much greater than the material gifts that will turn to dust. His greatest gift will last me through eternity and I could not ask for more!

I think Chris Tomlin puts it best:
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untameable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God

We get older but do we get wiser?

Its such a good question. Infinitely unwise mistakes made over and over again by so many men and women. You can read the paper in any state or country and the crimes seem to be the same. The same people making the same mistakes is there any hope?

I always say garbage in means garbage out. If you fill your life with negative that is what you get. So my advice is fill your life with God. Be careful little ears what you hear, yes that means your music! Be careful little eyes what you see, yes that means the tv even the news. What you watch influences you! What are you reading I hope it is his word! Be careful little feet where you go.....take yourself to church instead.

So while I am not so little anymore I hope that I can take my own advice and fill my life with the joy of the Lord, this year!

Nails

Words have power, we all know the saying sticks and stones, but my bruises will fade and it is the words that stay with me! Imagine yourself with a hammer, a board, and a nail. The nail is something you say sometimes unintentionally, but other times with malice! As you say it you hammer the nail into the board. Later on you realize the error of your words and say sorry, pulling the nail from the board. Alas, it leaves behind a hole. A hole that only forgiveness will fill.

Words have power!
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

The nails were hammered into his flesh and the holes they left behind will never heal! The words and actions of all were upon him. He chose the nails, for you. So the next time you speak remember words have power!