I CHOOSE

Choose you this day whom ye will serve...
but as for me and my house, 
we will serve the LORD.  
Joshua 24:15

In life we have many choices. 

Every day we make choices that affect our entire future.

Sometimes it seems like we do not have a choice 

about the events that we are involved in or facing, but we do.  

We have a choice as to how we will react 

to the circumstances and the attitudes or actions of others.

I heard a song written by Rodney Griffin today, 

sung by Ivan Parker 

that sums it up about the choices we make in our spiritual life.

“I Choose”

Master, may I be so honest?  Could I admit the way I feel?

I’m hurting.  It seems that You’ve forsaken.

I wonder, is Your love for me still real?

Though my friends think I am happy, unaffected by this trial,

they can’t see the pain I’m hiding just underneath my smile.

Master, I can’t live this way anymore.  So, today, I make my choice.

I choose to believe that You are faithful, and my heart is in Your hands,

and this mystery that I face today is part of a greater plan.

I choose not to be discouraged when the sun will not break through.

I have the choice of trusting You.  So, Lord, this is what I choose.

I know the road will not be easy.  I know I’ll have my weaker days.

And Satan will tell me I don’t mean it when I say I’ll trust God all the way.

But that really doesn’t matter.  I refuse to hear him out.

With my faith, I’ll find the power that will overcome all doubt.

Lord, I’ve never felt so strong as when I’m resting in Your arms.

I choose to believe that You are faithful, and my heart is in Your hands,

and this mystery that I face today is part of a greater plan.

I choose not to be discouraged when the sun will not break through.

I have the choice of trusting You.  So, Lord, this is what I choose.

I choose to believe that You are faithful, and my heart is in Your hands,

and this mystery that I face today is part of a greater plan.

I choose not to be discouraged when the sun will not break through.

I have the choice of trusting You.  So, Lord, this is what I choose.

This is what I choose.  Gonna trust You, Lord.  I choose!

I hope that this will encourage you as it did me.  

I choose to trust my Faithful Lord even when I do not understand.



Several cards I made this week.

 

I have set before you life and death, 

blessing and cursing: 

therefore choose life,

Deuteronomy 30:19 

Thanks for visiting and during this Holy Week may 

you keep Christ the center of your life!

The Upward Pull

Sometimes in life we just have to rely on knowing

that God is there and still cares about us.

Even when we cannot see Him in action,

He is still working.

The Upward Pull

He stood aside from his playmates,

His sightless eyes to the sky,

And the cord in his hands was tightly drawn

By the kite that flew so high.

In his big eyes, wondering, beautiful,

On his pale little slender face,

There shone such a rapture, such keen delight,

That someway it seemed out of place.

And I could not forbear to pause and ask,

”My laddie, what pleases you so,

As you hold your kite in the far-off sky,

Since its motion you cannot know?”

He turned and smiled as he softly said,

And his voice with joy was full,

“I can’t just explain, but it makes me glad,

When I feel that upward pull.”

That Upward Pull; it comes to us

‘In the weariness of strife.

When we stand bewildered, blinded and hurt,

Mid the fall of our cherished dream.

It is good to know that we cannot fail,

If we follow the heavenly gleam,

And never an hour may be so sad,

Nor ever a sky so dull

But we may, if we will, reach out and find

That God-given, Upward Pull.

Helen M. Wilson

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;

who for the joy that was set before him

endured the cross, despising the shame,

and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12:2

And I will share a couple cards I made :

  

 Keep looking up!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

My Valentine to you.

We love him, because he first loved us. 

1 John 4:19

  Beloved, if God so loved us, 

we ought also to love one another. 

1 John 4:11

Happy Valentine's Day

The Zigzag Path

THE ZIGZAG PATH

We climbed the height by the zigzag path

And wondered why -- until

We understood it was made zigzag

To break the force of the hill.

A road straight up would prove too steep

For the traveler's feet to tread;

The thought was kind in its wise design

Of a zigzag path instead.

It is so often in our daily life;

We fail to understand

That the twisting  way our feet must tread

By love alone was planned.

Then murmur not at the winding way,

It is our Father's will

To lead us Home by the zigzag path,

To break the force of the hill.

Anonymous

  But he knoweth the way that I take: 

when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 

Job 23:10





Sometimes we cannot understand our path through life,
but God knows best and
all we need to do is trust His wisdom
and follow His leading.

Jesus died over 2000 years ago. 

Nobody has ever referred to HIM as the late Jesus, 

Not even the heathens. 

Nowhere in history. 

Nowhere has HE ever been referred to in the past tense.

HE 'is' the Living God! 

and

When Jesus died on the cross HE was thinking of you! 

My first card was made with a set of dies 

I won during the Season's Givings blog hop on Phoebeez's blog. 

 http://phoebeez.blogspot.com/ 

Her cards are beautiful and a great inspiration to me.

These will be linked to WAW.

"May God Smile on You Today."