What is making you sing these days? What is causing you to feel alive?

For some of us this may be the people in our lives, and for others this may be your occupation. Yet for others of us we may be having a hard time finding or hearing the song. Our circumstances can be drowning out the song or jumbling it.

As we, here in the USA, come to the end of our Thanksgiving celebration I wanted to share with you all the message the Lord had laid on my heart to share with my family this year. Often the Thanksgiving holiday causes many of us to sit and reflect on what we are thankful for and encourages us to have an attitude of gratitude as we remember the first thanksgiving.

I live in the space between wanting to spend time with my children and wanting to be alone. Maybe you can related? The pull between spending time on something for yourself and something for someone else…

Do you ever struggle with feeling out of control? Does the lack of control result in uncontrollable fear? Fear filled thoughts. What ifs? Your mind runs ramped to the point you find yourself not being able to sleep, anxiety heightens, and your chest feels tight and your vision seems to be growing dimmer. Everywhere you look you see lack, danger, uncertainty, unreliability, hopelessness, impossibilities?

Ever wonder what it really means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ? When I first heard the term disciple I thought it was too hard of a task and too holy of a task for me to be able to fulfill it, because I was no Peter, James, John or Matthew!