Soul Sister Time

God created time in the first act of creation. From the moment He created light, He formed the beginning of time called the first day.  I'm grateful for time and the way that it brings hope to the end of painful realities as well as measures the wonder of blissful hours.  Time is a gift no matter how you look at it. We are only offered so much time in any given day.  How we use our gift is up to us.   It will affect the way we experience heaven when time is no more. ( For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body , whether good or bad 2 Corinthians 5:10). I write this as I sit waiting for others’ schedules to merge with mine.   All I have been told is that it is going to be a while.  I can grow frustrated in the land of the unknown and experience the time I have before me as a prison, or I can accept the gift of time called waiting and wonder why God has me here

              We can make living a life worthy of our calling in Christ so complicated when we neglect one simple spiritual reality--we forget that we are powerless.   It sure does take a long, long, long time to become holy.   How many truly holy people do you know?               If you haven’t noticed by now, I would like to point out to you that becoming holy is a far cry from who we are.   We are destined for holiness and called to holiness, yet once we get clear enough to want holiness, we realize how hard and distant holiness is.   Rather than cause you to get discouraged and give up, I hope you will learn from what I have for this week; all I have to do is ask.             I was having one of those obviously less-than-holy weeks.   It’s not that I was oblivious to all those around me.   I’ve cleaned up pretty well so no one would have known that I wasn’t fully connecting to God as I once had.   I knew.   I could feel it.   I was being tempted by one sneaky little thi

                  Crosses are crosses.   They can be pretty when they are made of diamonds or even cut glass.   We like to wear them on our bodies, decorate our walls with them and consider the great price Jesus paid for our salvation with the cross.                   Jesus told us crosses are to be taken up, not just admired or made into beautiful pieces of art.   In Luke 9:23 He specifies what we are to do with crosses:   Then he said to them all: Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me .   Crosses are for taking up.                 You don’t get to choose the cross that Jesus asks you to take up.   There are no malls for shopping for a favorite or best-fitting cross.   The cross is different for each of us.   It can be depression, difficult marriage, infertility, cancer, rebellious children, and financial ruin—the list is endless. Though the crosses vary, the instructions for any who wish to follow Christ and be