When Life Doesn't Fit

Posted by Bishop Susan Storm Smith

This is for all the women who have been there and done that; who have baked the cookies, changed the diapers, and attended all the PTA meetings. We may have been married and had the support of a loving companion, been a single mom, or married and felt single--either way, we have been there and done that. Now it's our turn to develop or well, just do. When life doesn't fit any more, change your life!

It is so exciting to see women in their 50s and 60s starting new careers and major projects. Remember, Moses didn't get called to ministry until he was eighty but was put on the training cycle at birth. If you're in that fifty- to sixty-year old category, that also means you're part of the Baby Boomer Generation and we don't stop, we change. I also believe that's what some of our younger generations need to see: that we can change with the seasons of life, take what we have learned through experience, and create a new future.

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Life Is UnPredictable but God is Still the Same

Posted by Marie

In life, sometimes you will see and hear things happening that you have no idea how it could happen. I have seen and experience these things in my family. I have often wondered how these people live their lives like that everyday without any consciousness. It seems to me they have no consciousness. It looks as if they don’t care about no one but themselves. The only way they seem to have any involvement with a person is when there is something in it for them.

I have read in the Bible about these kinds of sins, but I have never been in contact with people that lived as these persons.


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My life to understand...................may God get the glory.

Posted by William Hunsucker

I can only say I'm who I'm by the grace of God
I've been married 4 times and have 3 son's; had 3 step daughters ( I still claim but don't know if they do )
As the saying goes when you hold the flower you love, you crush the petals and ruin the flower (I'm good at that) some things just don't work when theirs no communication.
BUT I THINK AND HOPE I LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES
because I have at this time 2 granddaughters that love me for sure and 1 grandson.

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Where does prayer come in your life?

Posted by Dean & GladysBeaty

WHY DO YOU PRAY?
Philippians 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (King James Version)
By Rev. Dean Beaty 1/3/09

What brings you to God’s throne of grace,
To seek some wisdom from His face?
Is it when bowed down with care,
That you turn to God in prayer?

Do you meet just when you’re stressed,
Or have some sin that needs confessed?
Panic button type of prayer,
Doesn’t leave much time to spare.

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To everyone Living in black and white REAL life in christ,

Posted by Fran Doyle

LORD! Keep us all under your SPOUT where your GLORY comes out "AMEN"

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Who's Life is it Anyway

Posted by John Thomas

This month's Twelve Step Focus
3. Made a decision to become a disciple of Jesus Christ by turning our will and our life over to His care.

Since we are at the beginning of a new year I thought it would be a good idea to focus on what I believe is the most important of all of the 12 steps of recovery, Step Three. If we don’t make a solid commitment to giving up our lives to God’s care we will continually find ourselves making bad decisions and frustrated trying to handle situations the same way we have before and getting the same results.

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Living Life to the Fullest

Posted by Noah S. Reyes

m living life to the fullest... I am happy to be at a job I love, I have the ability to help people to get the things they need and finance them when noone else will... I am single and at this point in my life that is working very well for me... That doesnt however mean that I am not looking for the one who I will spend the rest of my life with, it just means I am content being single for the time being... I am working toward lots of goals that I am excited about reaching... Well updates to come... God Bl

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Eternal Life...Everlasting Life...What God's Word says.

Posted by Dean & GladysBeaty

SAVED AND SECURE
I John 5:13 “These things have I written unto you that believe
on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have
eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”
By Rev. Dean Beaty 1/13/09

It is great to know for certain that our sins are washed away.
Just as faithful is His promise that He’ll keep us day by day.
On the cross all sins were paid for by the blood that Jesus shed.
All our sins both past and future, now we have no more to dread.

Trust the promise Jesus gave us; that we’re held in God’s great grip.
Almighty God then holds our Savior therefore we can never slip.*
Do you think that once in heaven you would ever be kicked out?
Even now our names are written. They’re safely kept so do not doubt

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What is Your Garden of Life Producing?

Posted by Pastor Narda Goodson, First Lady of Whitewright, Texas

A productive, healthy, and beautiful garden is the result of proper care on a continual basis. It is not merely enough to maintain a garden when you feel like it, for behind its outer beauty, much activity is occurring from within. While new flowers are springing forth and roots are re-establishing with each growth spur, there are constant intruders trying to infiltrate its space.

These invaders are part of the community and although they co-habit, they are very harmful to the augmentation and progression of its inhabitants. Weeds, unhealthy vines, unwanted twigs, and wild flowers can be annoying neighbors, and if not detected and uprooted early, will choke the life out of your garden.

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Where is "God's Word" in Your Life?

Posted by Dean & GladysBeaty

FEED UPON GOD’S WORD
By Rev. Dean Beaty 1/26/09
Psalm 119:105&165 “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
“Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend* them.” (KJV)
*Cause to stumble

Some folk revere the Bible, while other people read it.
Also some will study it, while other people heed it.
Some treat it as a horse shoe in hopes it brings good luck.
While others only read it when in trouble they are stuck.

God’s Word is like an anchor that holds when storm winds blow.
We must hide it in our hearts so it’s there where e’er we go.
We need to read it daily as the original soul food,
To keep the spirit healthy and our love for God renewed.

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Taking Jesus' Yoke - LIBAW, real life in Christ

Posted by LIBAW

LIBAW, real life in Christ can be a catalyst to move you toward thinking the correct way about God and your relationship to Him and His Kingdom. What do I mean by this? Let me give you an example. The phrase spoken by Jesus, “take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls” (Matthew 11: 29) is a divine call toward action that will benefit us and those with whom we come in contact.

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Eternal Life (To Know God)

Posted by Evangelist Jay Adams

Eternal Life (To Know God)
Main Text (John 17: 1-5) - 1 Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.


To Know God .....

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My life thus far--CLICK CLICK BOOM!!!

Posted by mike cronmiller

I was born back in 1965 to Norman and Helen Cronmiller, I had a pretty normal childhood growing up in Dearborn. I went to Long Elementary for grades K-6. This is where I was noticed and befriended by Dr Wayne, a 6th grade teacher. When I was still in the third grade, he observed that I had a knack for science and astronomy. The principal and Dr Wayne had me doing projects with the 6th graders in the fields of science and astronomy. I also excelled in sports and chess. My mind was like a sponge. I thought there was nothing I could not learn. However it was when I advanced to O.L. Smith Jr High that I found out that there is more to school than just doing assignments. There was a type of social order to the mix (i.e. cliques) and how to fit into one. I found out that it was easier for me to go with multiple cliques; the Jocks, eggheads and burnouts. However I also played baseball and continued to practice almost every day.

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The Fight of My Life

Posted by Elizabeth Burns *UNIQUELY LIZ*

The Fight of My Life

The Fight of my life, for my life.

Being a young woman of God, the struggles of life is hard to bare.

On the road to fulfill my dreams, I thank God that my life has been spared.

Livin' my life to the fullest! But I constantly have to fight.

To survive, to strive, to drive, to arrive where I wanna go,

I must have my light...and in order to know that

If you have Jesus...with him everything will be alright!!!

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