Prepared.......

My Thought for this Day.......Every day your ship sails out of its harbor and begins its journey of life. Some days the seas are calm and you enjoy a wonderfully joyful cruise. Some days the seas are dark and tumultuous and you feel tossed about by huge waves of despair. Here is the most important thing. If you have fitted your ship with the Lifeboats of Faith and Assurance, then no matter the seas, you are at peace. And when your ship re-enters its port at night, you swab your decks, then step ashore and welcome your next day's cruise. For you are prepared.

Aisle......

My Thought for this Day.......Maybe your world today is not in a picture perfect box tied with a very shiny bow. Maybe instead it is in a plastic bag with a hole and one broken handle. We've all been there. Many of us may be there now. Problems and sorrow and burdens of every kind weigh your plastic bag down and your fear is that all the pieces will fall out and never be retrieved and never be stored again in that beautiful box with that bow. The weight of that bag can and will weigh you down and do exactly what you let it. STEAL YOUR JOY! Guard your heart with the promises given that you can carry your load and that you will be victorious. Life isn't always the candy aisle. Sometimes you have to be in the loading zone of burdens. But here's the joy. When you carry that burden, and then when you turn into that candy aisle, you have not only found your strength, you have been given the tools to help others when they are at their own loading dock. Be strong in your problems. Life abounds even when your choice isn't chocolate.

Purpose.......

My Thought for this Day.....Sometimes life comes at us hard, sometimes on silent feet. No matter the delivery, life continually happens. And our mission is to embrace each day knowing that they are not only numbered, but labeled with a purpose that is singularly ours.

Choices.....

My Thought for this Day.......You can look at this world through disappointment, or you can look through joy. Negativity sits alone and breeds resentment, suspicion and bitterness with its darkness and doubt. Joy sings like a bird on a branch sure in her knowledge that the tree will hold both her and her nest. I choose Joy; I choose my song to be trilled to the Heavens. I choose to turn my back on the valley of the shadow.

Titus.......

My Thought for this Day..........Our memories are things to be stored in our hearts with wonder. Both good and bad, our memories hold our past in their hands. Some we want to forget; some we cherish; but all are our story. This is my memory from one year ago today. Titus was one week old and a little over 3 pounds. It was my first time to hold this amazing creature and whisper to him my hopes and prayers. He, my first grandchild, was tiny and fragile and hooked up to wires and monitors, yet was an enormous force of life. What an incredible year for this little boy. How can we not kneel and give our Father our thanks for holding us all in His mighty, adoring hands.

Crumbs.....

My Thought for this Day.......When the crumbs of yesterday clog up your vacuum cleaner of today, you might need to rethink your diet.

Roots.......

My Thought for this Day......We all have emotional roots that stem from the soil of our past. Some we need to fertilize; some we need to spray with Round-Up.