Sharing The Love

Happy New Year!

I know, I am a few days late!! Hey, it’s still a new year!!

I thought I would spread the joy out, so you wouldn’t be inundated with celebrations all in one day!

Here are some things that everyone should add to their list of things to accomplish in the next 12 months: (yes, purposefully I do avoid the word resolution!) I enjoy other words such as vision, goals, life changes, new directions, etc.

1.  Serve.  This comes in many forms as not everyone can serve in the same capacity.  Serve in your home. Serve family members by doing various things for them with love. This teaches your children to serve by example.  It is important to serve others by opening your home (no matter the size) to your community for meetings, gatherings or other types of events!  Serve in your church, your community, your city, your world.  Make no excuse this year. You have time, find it! There is something you can do, do it!

2.  Mentor.  Find one person, I like to do this unofficially! What that means is that I do not make a big deal of it, no announcement, no hoopla! At work, in the neighborhood, at church, or wherever God leads me, I seek out someone who needs encouragement, direction, accountability.  I believe we were meant for relationship, first with God, then with one another. We need each other.

3.  Watch Your Words.  I know I harp on this and that is because of its importance.  In Ephesians 4:29 it says: “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”  This is difficult for most people.  We must obey what the Bible says-it’s very clear! So, no gossiping, no cussing, no rudeness, no sarcasm, no judging, no lying, you get the picture! Try it for 30 days, it’s very cleansing for the soul!

Is there anything that you are doing different than last year that you would like to share?

Lord,

Teach us to pray with our lives.

May everything we say and everything we do bring glory to you.

Teach us to love like you love and to forgive like you forgive.

Thank you, Father, with love!

Self esteem is the value or opinion of one’s one worth.

This morning as I was preparing for my day, I was thinking about the way we women view ourselves. In my travels, I have had the honor of meeting women from all walks of life. And there seems to be a common thread that I see among most, whether they are royalty, diplomats, celebrities, successful business women, moms, or anyone in between-low self esteem. The reason? We are relying on ourselves for an opinion of ourselves and we are our worst critics! We believe we are not good enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not enough. Why? Because somewhere back there, someone told us we weren’t. Someone told us we would never be. Someone didn’t give us the time we needed, the love we deserved, the touch we craved. Someone and that someone or perhaps someones still has a hold on us today. And we somehow allowed those lies to become our truth. We put those lies into our life making them into what we call our self esteem.

I do not want to esteem myself in any way!! Because God has already accepted me, forgiven me and expects me to reflect Him in all I do so that others may see Him and come to know Him.

God-esteem is the value or opinion of one’s one worth in the eye’s of God. And He holds you in very high regard. You are extremely precious to Him. He GAVE all that He had for you. You are his heart. He loves you intentionally and extravagantly. Our worth must be encompassed in Him. Let us not degrade ourselves for that is pure disrespect to the One who created you for His glory.

Believe what God says

about

YOU,

He only speaks truth.