Month: May 2018

Proverbs 11:25
A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.

In the past, I was a theatre mom, but this past year I had the privilege to be part of the theatre as the co-director of our high school drama club.

As the curtains for the last time this year, I reflected about how much I learned from these wonderful kiddos. The most important thing I learned was love, hope and respect.

You see in the picture below there are many races, cultures, ages, religious beliefs and sexual identities. We joke. We kid. What we don’t do is offend or get offended. We don’t always agree or understand each other, but it never stops us from loving or respecting each other.

My co-director is fond of saying, “Theatre is Family.” I have seen that first hand this year. There is not one of these kiddos who wouldn’t drop everything to race to the side of another.

In this day and age where high schools and students are being torn apart by the media, these kids are a beacon of hope.  Without even realizing it, they are showing what true Christian love is suppose to be. They loved this old, white, straight, Christian conservative woman right where she was and didn’t care what labels she carried around. I loved and respected each and everyone of them the same way! We are and always will be family!

These wonderful human beings are my heroes!

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Psalms 46:10
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

I hope I am not the only one that sees a bible verse and says, “Yep! That is my theme song today!”

Certain seasons of my life have brought different verses over the years. The past couple of months the beginning of Psalms 46:10 has played loudly in my head.  Be still, and know that I am God.  Every time I have thought about a relationship that is in desperate need of mending I have hear God almost yell this at me.  Every time, I have uttered a “But God I think I should…” it has shown up somewhere on social media or a friend sends me a picture with the words on it.

Yesterday, I was struggling once again.  I felt my hope beginning to waiver and become strained.  It was as if I physically felt a spiritual tug of war going on between God and Satan over me. Something would pop into my head reminding me of how bad things were in my life.  The next split second I would here 2 Corinthians 4:16 “Do not lose heart!”

Eventually, I began smashing these two verses together.  Do not lose heart. Be still, and know that I am God!

I had a new anthem! 

Right now, I am in a waiting period of life.  I see the storm around me and there is nothing I can do.  No, there is nothing I am suppose to do.  Believe me I pray every day asking God for where I am suppose to go and what am I suppose to do.  Some days I feel as if I am saying this prayer every minute. It is hard to let go, sit back and wait.  It is hard to give up control.

I love the way the Ancient One puts it in Dr Strange.

The Ancient One: You cannot beat a river into submission. You have to surrender to its current and use its power as your own.

Dr. Strange: I control it by surrendering control? This doesn’t make any sense.

The Ancient One: Not everything does. Not everything has to. Your intellect has taken you far in life, but it will take you no further. Surrender, Stephen. Silence your ego, and your power will rise. Come with me.

I can hear this conversation happening between God and I. I hear him telling me, “Do not lose heart. “Be still, and know that I am God!”

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Galatians 6:2
Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ

Everyone has a mother! So, everyone should want to celebrate Mother’s Day.  

Women should be happy on Mother’s Day!

Mother’s need to be honored by standing up in church and being identified!

We need to give gifts to all the Mother’s at church on Sunday!

If everyone should be excited on Mother’s day what do you tell the woman in the back who is grieving because she can’t conceive?  Or the lady who just lost her child, or miscarried.

What about the poor woman racked with guilt because of an abortion many years ago.

What about the step mom who is struggling to find her place in the family or the foster mom who loves each child while still trying to help them get back to their “real” mom.

Then there is that lady whose children who have cut her out of their lives.

I would never want to leave out all those people whose mother’s have passed, leaving a hole in their heart.

I and many of my friends have or are in one of these phases of life.  We all have issues with the “Happiness of Mother’s Day!” When we get to church, we cringe at the thought of those Pastors who ask all mothers to stand or come to the front to receive a gift.

Now, I know churches mean well. They probably have never even thought about the plight of some women in the their congregations.

What I would like to tell them is to celebrate all women today.  Mother’s come in all shapes and sizes.

You may not have ever had children in your life, but I can almost guarantee you have mothered someone.  I can also almost guarantee that there has been some lady in your life who has mothered you. God created women very specifically.  We were not an after thought.  We were made to be help mates.  We were created with this need to reach out to others around us.  We were created to “mother” people if you will.

We were created to be like Christ!

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