New Ideas in a New Year

Open my mind to new ideas.

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Happy New Year!

I woke this morning, so happy to see the sunlight streaming into my bedroom.  Sunny and warm in January; is there a better way to start a new year?   I have to say, that I'm glad to say goodbye to 2011 although it brought me home. 

Here's to new beginnings.

Words

"Gracious speech is like clover honey"




-Proverbs 16:24

Shadow Shot Sunday

Caught

I am caught, I am loved



Caught:
I was caught when I was young.  And caught still today.  I am so grateful that I am His and He is mine.  To know this God of love, to live forever in the embrace of a father, so good.  
When I am caught in endless worries, pervasive thoughts, it is Him who calms.  
He is the great pursuer of my soul and when I long to feel loved, special, I listen, quiet long enough to sense the wooing.
The dance we do, the songs He sings over me while I sleep, the angels sent to protect while I slumber, it is all so good.  
I've been caught up in webs of others, caught up in self-destruction but where I long to stay is in His protection.  To know without a doubt, He'll catch me when I fall, to be caught up in His love for me, caught up in my alone time with Him. 

Source: dayspring.com via Nicole on Pinterest

Source: dayspring.com via Nicole on Pinterest

weekend reflection, flowers on saturday, 

A Child

A child can escape the shadows.

-Steve Largent

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Know the Light

Sometimes I feel silenced.  And I write anyway. Because writing freely heals, it means I recognize, I admit.

How can I find healing if I can not admit that I am broken?

Secrets silence struggle.

To cover for others, I must veil myself.   To share means stigma.  But isn't that the goal?  To make me hide in humiliation?  To suffocate me in shame?

I have to see the light to heal.  I have to know the light.  And I have to know who I am.  Whose I am.  Because there are moments when the lies will come fast and furious and confusion will set in if you are not grounded in the Word and in Truth.  You will sink.  If you are not watchful the lies will come from the mouths of those you trust and you will be taken.  I have learned this the hard way.  But I am grateful that I know the light and the Son and that though there are moments when I feel like I don't quite know who I am, the I Am that I Am knows me.  And He calls me by name.  

The Key to Serenity

Acceptance is the key to serenity.


Writing here today.

Six Word Saturday - Giving

"Giving myself away, I've found myself."


To hear more of Brandee's words, click here.  She writes about service, willingness and giving.

Six Word Saturday and a Poem

...a story of miraculously answered prayer...

September

September: siblings and slides and swings.

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