Embraceable love

  So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. -Isaiah 41:10        One of my favorite things about God, is the way he speaks to us. He doesn't speak to us in ordinary ways but rather extraordinary ways. In my life, he often uses children to speak to me and today he used a 1 year old girl that I babysit.      As I was babysitting today I put the baby in her high chair and gave her a drink and some cheerios while I did some dishes. When all of her cheerios were gone she began to scream at me trying to get my attention to let me know she needed more cheerios. (Let me remind you that I was still in the same room as her and she could see me and hear me as I talked to her.) Normally, I would begin to have my patience thin a bit with each yell but today God used that yell to teach me and speak to me.    God showed me that I'm t...

   This past week has been full of joy, peace, reassurance, faith, love, and so many other things! I've been struggling a lot with what seems like a new struggle each day on top of the old ones. For me, its hard to admit that I struggle and even harder to admit what those struggles are. Even writing this post seems hard for me because I'm admitting that I don't have my life altogether the way I feel that I should but then again, does anyone really have everything all together?     One thing that God has really revealed to me a lot this past year has been how much people go through with out anyone knowing it. Each person you pass on the street, the cashier at the grocery store, your pastor or youth pastor, your pastors wife, your pastors kids, teachers, parents, that girl that always has the biggest smile on her face, that boy who is always helping out everyone else, your best friend, your mentor, even that one person that you look at and think "wow, they have e...