Posts

Showing posts from October, 2015

Why we don't need a prince charming.....

Image
"There is no such thing as a perfect life but there is perfection in life and it is Jesus Christ"-Danny Lewis ...... And her prince swept her off her feet and they lived happily ever after..... isn't that what we are all looking for, what we weep over in movies and the happily ever after good feelings .... ...there is no perfect life ....but there is perfection in Jesus Christ,  as I contemplate the words that my wise husband shared with me, I see so many different meanings in Christ's perfection. I must say we are so impressionable when we are young and we think that the "perfect Life" is out there and we are just going to miraculously jump into it at some point in our life, our ship will come in and all will be good. Well I am here to tell you that it does not happen that way. Having grown up impoverished but also having had some material things as an adult, I am a witness that happiness does not lie in things, in circumstance, or in our "lot i

We always ask why....

The serpent told Eve, Do you want to be like God and have all the knowledge that he has”? “ Then eat of the tree of life” Gen  3:1-4 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Gen 3:5 I was reading an article about abuse and how terrible it is and how does God let it happen. While I was reading it, I was thinking of this scripture and how God does not allow it. We do it. Just like we ate of the tree in the Garden when we were not suppose to. He gave us free will and because of sin and free will,  people do bad things. Bad things happen to good people.  When Eve and Adam partook of the fruit from the tree of Life, like the serpent said “ you will not die, but you will be like God knowing good and evil”…. and there you have it.  We were made in God’s image with rule over all the earth and because of the very first sin in the Garden of Eden we suffer, people suffer and it isn’t because God