It's time to speak some truth-not to convince others, but to remind my own head and heart of the truth that I should be living 24/7 (...and I am constantly falling short).

God WILL provide. God WILL protect me through my life's struggles. He is always there, no matter how alone I might feel. My job is a blessing from Him. My coworkers provide a variety of personalities for me to learn from. I am a light for Him in this environment- a Godless work environment only means that I need to shine BRIGHTER! He has called me here for a reason. I am not to be hardened; I am to be a leader, even if I have never envisioned myself in such a role before. I am certainly not a leader on my own accord- I will fully trust that God is the one working through me, and never the other way around!

I am a mother through God- he has blessed my life with the 'loan' of this beautiful child, and I am to "train [her] in the way [s]he should go". She is not mine to keep; she is HIS creation and HIS child.

I cannot cry for the things I do not have or for things that I cannot do; I need to rejoice in the abundance of rich blessings that He has already poured out on me! The perfect, sinless love of Christ was beaten, ridiculed, tortured and hung to die- all for the sin in my own life.



Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. (Philippians 2:5-7)