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I am hoping this will get some air time on the Bloggernacle and such. Some seriously good paragraphs in here. Quote:Have I been judged by my past or my tattoos? Yes, on both accounts. Absolutely, I have been offended by comments and actions by others and I have wrestled my faith because of it. For every one person that has made me feel loved and included, there have been one person to make me feel like I didn’t belong. But at the end of the day, at the end of this journey, it’s about me and God. When you are offended it helps to ask yourself these questions: Where is your heart? Your commitment? Is it on God or is it on your community? Because even if your heart lies within your church community, that it STILL aligning yourself with “the world” because your church community is made up of mortal men and women and they WILL disappointment you (even those with the best intentions). Your heart needs to transcend your community where offenses are not heard and received.
Quote:I am so grateful that God chose mercy and grace over of justice, even if people miss that. God has been so good to me.
Quote:I am a Sinner. If you’re looking for perfection, you will be disappointed by me. I am a broken woman with a broken past, but it’s through that brokenness that light is able to shine through. When I learned to accept my past, accept WHO I was….those mistakes and transgressions no longer have power over me. “My chains are gone…I’ve been set free.” There is “freedom in Christ” because I am no longer bound to what I have done.
Quote:“Personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the alter. Instead it is a willingness to place the animal in us upon the alter”
Quote:God has never appeared to me in a burning bush. I have never wrestled Him on the shore of a river and walked away with a limp. I have never seen the finger of God….but I have felt this change in my heart that wants me to be brave. To do good. To forgive and to KEEP forgiving. That is just as good as any parted Red Sea. We are Children of a Living God and we must protect that identity. Claim it and reclaim it in our lives. The world calls us to be beautiful and popular, but God calls us His.
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https://ldswomanatthewell.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/hello-world/ ” class=”bbcode_url”> https://ldswomanatthewell.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/hello-world/ Quote:Will I sit on the bank or will I dive into the stream of God’s love? Complete surrender of an unknown future to a known God. I, finally, decided that I was going to dive in. Head first. Not as some carbon copy of what someone wanted me to be and it’s made all the difference. Accepting the Gospel as me has allowed me to “approach the throne of grace with confidence” but also with a certain vulnerability which after everything is said and done, the only thing I have really to offer in my relationship with God is my authentic self.
Ray sometimes says that when leadership calls him for a calling – they get him. Perhaps in this context that phrase could be modified. “When God calls me – He gets me.”
:thumbup: I saw that post on a relative’s FB feed, and it was really great!
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