Starfish

GOD does continue to bless and speak in so many ways. A story is going on right in front of us and we get to choose whether or not we are among the characters. GOD has already designed our part, it is up to us whether or not we meet HIM in the story and decide to participate.

Thursday night was my last class meeting for my first class in my Masters program. Our professor gave us a poem and told us to start collecting things that encourage us or touch our lives...I thought, isn't this what my blog is all about. Recording my part of the story. If I would keep or write about everything that has touched my life and encouraged me...I don't think I could. GOD is just so amazing and has done so much just for me, times that by all of you. What Love that demonstrates all the time.

Are my eyes and ears open to the RISEN CHRIST? Do I see HIM and hear HIM in everything? Do you wonder why you continue to journey everyday down a path that seems to have no ending? Can you not see the end of your tunnel? Do you wonder if your life makes a difference?

Here is the poem my Professor gave us on Thursday to start adding to our collection:

Every day, an old man walked the beach with a pail, picking up starfish that had been washed in by the tide, and throwing them back into the sea. One day a young boy stopped the old man and asked, "Why do you throw the starfish back? It doesn't matter. They will only wash up on the shore again tomorrow." The old man picked the starfish out of his pail, threw it as far as he could into the sea and replied, "It mattered to that one."

If you think your life, your story, your journey, and the things you do in it don't make a difference to someone then look above and ask the RISEN SAVIOR to show you the way. Lean on HIM daily, draw ever closer to HIM and learn to Love HIM more and more each day. For your life does matter to HIM. Amazing how HE continues to pick us up and throw us back into the sea, into the game of life every time we wash back up to shore.

I went home after class and had my quiet time....I found it interesting that the message in "every Woman, every day" went along with these same thoughts. So I met the RISEN CHRIST again in that moment. Here is what it said for February 28:

We are to love God above anything else in this world, with as much strength and passion as each of us possibly can. We demonstrate this love for God by focusing our thoughts and energies on those things He's prepared for us to do and that are also pleasing to Him.

Does this mean God is your one and only constant thought through out the day? No. But even as you think on the various other things that demand your attention, should you be loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind? Absolutely. When we demonstrate responsible stewardship of the life He has given us, our lives offer proof of our love. (taken from "Every Woman's Battle, page 70)

I also loved the prayer offered in the same book on the following day:

Holy God, You who deserve 100 percent of my love and affection, show me the parts of my heart that I've given away to others. Please make my heart whole and make it wholly Yours.

That is my prayer too, I want to be wholly HIS. I want HIM to have all my thoughts, strength, and passion. Wholly HIS...I like the sound of that. HE is my everything and shouldn't I demonstrate that same love by giving HIM ALL of me.