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Sometimes taking one step too far can have consequences.

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Sometimes you have to move like a snail to reach your destination.

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No matter what season we are in, we need to take time to listen…

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You’re still fully loved even when your stuck in faith and doubt cycle.

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The smallest act of mercy makes the biggest difference.

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Excerpt from:

 A Breath of Inspiration written by Monica Cane

Available at: http://www.MonicaCane.com

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The word “Enough”  can stir up various feelings.  Feelings of strength and resolve such as, That’s enough! I’m done!  Or feelings of vulnerability and weakness as in, I’ve had enough, I just can’t take any more.

Throughout my life I’ve felt both of those versions of “Enough” many times but as I get older, not so much in age but in my walk with God, I’ve come to a different understanding of the word.

God is enough: When circumstances arise, as they often do, that cause anxiety, worry, frustration, anger and so on verses like, Philippians 4:9, “God will meet all our needs,” ring true.  Regardless of any circumstance we may face, God is enough for all of it.

I am enough:  Everything from culture, society, peers, church, work family and friends have challenged me more than I would like to admit with a burning question, Am I enough?

I wasted much time thinking I wasn’t enough, that I needed to be more or do more  in order to be valuable in this world.  Eventually I found my way back to the very beginning—God’s creation and that settled the question once and for all.

Genesis 1:27,31, “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created male and female…God saw all that he made and it was very good.”

Am I enough? Are you?   

Yes.

Not because of what we do, or what we don’t, but because God created us and when he did, knowing everything good and bad that our life would entail, he still agreed his creation was very good.

God is enough. I am enough.

Believe

When I was little Santa Claus was much more real to me than God.  I felt pretty certain God existed but He was somewhere up in the sky, uninvolved with life on earth and uninvolved with me. But Santa Clause, that was entirely different.  He lived in the North Pole with elves and reindeers. He was a jolly, fat man who loved cookies just like me. He was involved, he paid attention,  he knew when I was naughty or nice.  Santa also knew I believed in him and once a year he would prove it by leaving many presents with my name on it under our tree.

My little heart was shattered when I eventually learned the truth. How could Santa not be real?  I took it personally and felt as if my foundation of belief had been broken.  If Santa wasn’t real then who was?

It would be many years before I came to understand that it was God who had trumped Santa all along. God was the one who was real, He was the one who knew all things, was intricately involved with life on earth and He was the one personally involved with me.  

This morning the chorus of a worship song I was listening to, moved me to lift my hands in prayerful surrender. “Take me back, back to the beginning, when I was young, running through the fields with you”  

Palms toward heaven, my memories were ushered back in time, first recalling the little girl who adminately put her faith in Santa Clause, then the age of disappointment that followed. And then later in adulthood when to my surprise I was overpowered by the reality of God’s  truth, grace, love, mercy, forgiveness, hope and healing through His Son.

This discovery of faith in Jesus, left me feeling like a child running through the fields, with not a care in the world.

Decades later, I still love the magic of Santa Clause, elves and reindeers during the holidays but experiencing a daily relationship with God, witnessing His faithfulness through the good and the bad of life has restored my foundation of belief, one that is rooted in Truth and that will never be broken.

Listen

 “Listen to my cry for help my King and my God, for to you I pray.” -Psalm 5:2

 

When I talk to God and lay out all my requests, concerns or worries, I have no doubt that He is listening.  In those moments of prayer I know I have God’s undivided attention but that wasn’t always the case.  When I was young in my faith I would often stop in the middle praying, look around wondering, Is God was really listening or am I just talking to myself?

 

I began reading the Bible, studying it and quickly discovered that not only does God listen me but He longs to speak to me as well.

 

Talking to God is much easier than actually listening, but He desires that we hear Him the same way we desire that He hears us, if not more but listening takes practice.

 

To really listen to anyone, let alone God means we have to put aside our mind’s own agenda and just be still for a bit.  Choosing to be still on the inside gives God the opportunity to speak to our hearts.  And from there, just listen.

 

I’m So Excited!….I came  home after work, opened my mailbox and received my author copies from The Lookout Magazine that published the article where I interviewed my son. “Ready or Not Here He Comes”