Shoes

Have you ever thought what it would be like to go WITHOUT shoes?

I never really thought about it really. Until challenged to take a step or a few more than that without them on April 8, 2010. So I thought, "Okay, how hard can that be since I ENJOY going barefoot." Then I thought about it some more and then realized that maybe, just maybe I could take it a step further. How about challenging our mission outreach team to consider this feet to suggest others to "try it."

Try It I did today, or really I should say "tonight" when we went on our walk. At first I thought let's work "into" the notion. Take it easy, slow, safe. The thought crossed my mind to first go without socks while still sporting my tennis shoes. That was okay for a part of the exercise routine but it began to slightly hurt, rub the wrong way and a small blister, or was it? Yes that skin rubbed against the layer and a slight discomfort on the heal area was apparent. So for the last two blocks, "let's try it barefoot - Ana. It can't be all that bad can it?"

Can and it did. Tiny blister, tender feet and ever watchful eyes. This definitely made me visualize the reality - I've grown soft. Emily said, "Mom, why are you taking off your shoes? Your gonna walk the rest of the way home like that?" "Yes" was my reply. "How come?" Emily questioned intrigued. "well, I have a blister that has formed and it is beginning to hurt. Also . . . I just am working on something." She simply smiled and helped be my eyes so that I didn't "step on anything and hurt the bottom of my feet" while she kicked twigs, small rocks and other cement debris out of my foots path. I came back home, looked for the date of the big events challenge. I researched and thought Thanks "TOMS" for setting aside a time to make a difference in a global effort. If one purchases a T shirt "TOMS" will purchase a pair of shoes for a child - An effort of "ONE FOR ONE". How can We make a difference? I am going to walk the 8 April and go barefoot in honor of the effort. THEN take another step to make another MOVE to reach out and touch in another way later before the END of the July this summer.

So where are your shoes? "This little Piggy went to Market, This little Piggy stayed home, this little piggy had roast beef, and this little piggy had none ANNNNND this little Piggy went weeeeeeeeee all the way home." So where are your shoes? Are they staying on for the day or are you willing to take a BIG STEP and walk it BARE FOOT on _________________(and follow through) then put it towards a need for another person without shoes?!!!

Run

"Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint." Proverbs 23:4

But RUN after the Greatest RICHES and a new LIFE by yielding your entire Life to Jesus Christ.

Have a Blessed Resurrection Sunday this Sunday!

Ahhhhh IT IS HERE

Ahhhhh already it is so refreshing . . . SPRING IS HERE!!!! YES!!!!!

I can NOT wait to tell you about it tonight!!!

Enjoy the weather to EVERYONE who is in our area!!!!!

See Ya Later Taters!!!!

Living

Is what you are living for worth dieing for ALL of ETERNITY?

Is what you are planning for worth anything more once we are gone?

When it is all said and finished did it end like it should have?

What if you died RIGHT NOW?

Where would you honestly go?

Everyone desires to be LOVED, so why is it so hard to GIVE IT FREELY?

If this is the last breath we take, where is the next one honestly going to be?

When we live LOVE, the world would KNOW LOVE, wouldn't it?

Who is Heaven for?

If we aren't willing to live for the GLORY of GOD before Heaven then how can we think we will when we are faced to be IN HEAVEN?

What is the reality of our journey here on earth? Is it (our journey) Heaven bound; truthfully?

Living . . . Heaven is Real

so is Hell . . . .

so where are my treasures stored; For now or for ALL ETERNITY where it REALLY matters?

LIVING.

DRINKING the LIVING WATER, Come to the LIVING FOUNTAIN and never go thirsty while you are

LIVING. As the Deer pants for water, so my soul thirsts for YOU!

WAIT

Hadassah waits in eager anticipation a kiss from the Sun & its warmth!

So many times our techno world reaches out and tempts us to go just a bit faster. Why wait, we have instant this and instant that, Have it your way, just add water, pop it the microwave, go "cheetah speed", skype it, text it, I TOUCH it . . . . on and on and ON!

Where and what I have come to realize is that the most EXCELLENT things I have received has come with LONG SUFFERING in other word PATIENCE, YOU know WAITING. But we beginning tapping our fingers rapidly when we need to wait for the "dial up" to go faster, or heaven forbid we need to wait one to two minutes for anything.

Let's see: I waited nineteen years to meet the one individual that the Lord would bring into my life to experience my FIRST DATE and boy was that worth the WAIT and then the patience for our wedding, to be respectful for a precious couple to be married first ;-) NO REGRETS there. Or how about our first full time ministry? We waited two years, again was that well worth our WAIT. Or how about the time awaiting for the arrival of our five children (nine months) again WONDERFUL expectation; and the very long wait to "SEE" our Jordan Micah in Heaven - where it will be perfect and well worth the wait again. Or the healing of a wounded heart four to five months and now renewed from the fire? Or hearing your Call and waiting years to go on the field and then finally arriving to the departure time so the the Lord could use it ALL for his GLORY? W-A-I-T !

He been WAITING for you to come to him. He is still WAITING with a huge sense of compassion so that you may come to the fullness of his gift - His son died for YOU so that you may come to Heaven. Won't you come? There is only ONE way to Heaven and that is through the Lord Jesus Christ. Believing he died for you, yielding your life to His and repenting of your sins. There is no other way, regardless what others may say or think ~ believing in Jesus Christ as your LORD and your SAVIOR is the ONLY way to get to Heaven and He is extending that invitation to you now . . . waiting out of LOVE for you because He does LOVE YOU and he has WAITED your whole life for you to just come as you are. If You want PEACE wrapped in an amazing LOVE run to the One who Stands and WAITS for YOU.