Letting Go of Weights

     Heavy burdens make us weak.  You would think, like lifting weights, we would become stronger in time as we grudgingly pick up our burdens every morning and carry them all day.  But, that is not how it works.  Our burdens drag us down.  We become exhausted under the weight of carrying them alone.  
     Psalm 55:22 tells us to "cast thy burdens upon the Lord, and He will sustain thee."  That tells me God wants to bear our burdens for us.  He wants our burdens upon His shoulders, not ours. 
     When we let go of our burdens and worries, we are transformed.  Our body becomes stronger, our mind becomes clearer, our walk becomes straighter, our trust in God becomes superior, our prayer life lingers through the hours of the day,  and our hands are freed to grasp the Hand of the Deliverer, our God.  When we "Let Go and Let God," our radiance glows, our bodies are made lighter.  We can fly into the day with a smile and a laugh.  We can joyfully sail through the burdens of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.   We can embrace the day!
      

Make The Chili

 

Make the Chili

     Have you ever lived with a controller or one who is fun one minute and hateful the next?  People can change, but do they choose to do so?  We may love someone but not like their deeds and actions.  They can cause us to be up one minute and down another.  When we are involved with those who fail to make changes, and we are unable to live with their choices, it then becomes our choice to stay around or walk away.  In either case it is up to us to make ourselves happy, not depending on someone else to do it for us.  We need to make our own “Chili.”

C hill out

H ave self-love

I mage the best you can be

L ive life/ Love self

I mbark on self-improvement fun

 

Hunger and Thirst

      Thinking and acting with positivity is always good, and life flows more smoothly when we steer away from the negative.  When we hunger and thirst  or have a longing, most would say those are negative, but in the case of a man's heart toward God, they are positive factors.  It is good to hunger and thirst for God's Word.  It is good to have a longing to seek God, giving Him our undivided attention.   

The Walk

      I’ve been told that I have a funny walk.  In fact, my sister stated to a friend, “That must be Mary up ahead in that crowd.  It looks like her walk.”  That was so funny, but in all seriousness our walk is important.

      We need to walk in God’s statues.  “If ye walk in my statues, and keep my commandments and do them; Then I will give you rain in due season…” Leviticus 26:3-4a

     We are to walk in all God’s ways.   “Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.”  Deuteronomy 5:33

      We should walk in righteousness.  “Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who sall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.” Psalm 15:1-2

     We should walk in the law of the Lord.  “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.”  Psalm 119:1

      We should walk uprightly.  “He that walketh uprightly walketh surely:”  Proverbs 10:9a

      We should walk with integrity.  “The just man walketh in his integrity:  his children are blessed after him.” Proverbs 20:7

So, what’s in your walk?
Is there a jiggle in your wiggle,
Swaying to and fro amid desires of man
Just cause you can?
Or a straight and narrow trot
Toward Christ’s allotted spot
Never letting God be forgot?