May My Heart See...

Thanksgiving being this week and all has put me in a “gratitude awareness” mode more than usual.    Trying to stay there has been a challenge.   Because we normally, as a society, feel so entitled, gratitude isn’t part of our (maybe I should say, “MY”) make-up.   My heart is selfish, deceitful and for the most part, ungrateful. The first sin was ingratitude, you know.   Eve, in the Garden of Eden, was looking for more - something she didn’t already have, something forbidden.   Instead of looking at what she did have, she looked at what she didn’t have or couldn’t have.   I’m the same way.   I hate that about myself!   What’s a girl to do???   How is one to get “grateful”?   How can I become more thankful, or maybe even thankful at all?   My journey to thankfulness started when I realized an important, life-changing statement was true.   The world doesn’t revolve around me. Maybe you realized this already (a...

I love reading books.   I have always loved reading.   My reading “habits” have changed over the years though.    I used to read romantic novels all the time.   At least one a week, I bet.      I don’t think I have read one in years, though. The best book I have ever read, and still read is the Bible.   There is NO WAY I could write here, in this blog, everything I have ever learned from studying the Bible.   And I am still learning and hopefully will be until the day I meet my Savior face-to-face.   Even while studying the Bible, I still read books.   Well, that is until I was introduced to Beth Moore, and there was no time to read!   OMW I love her studies – so in-depth – so deep and SO MUCH HOMEWORK!    Life-changing FOR SURE! Now, if I can get a book done in six months, it’s a miracle!      I just finished a book I started last year sometime, not a novel, but a “self-help” kind...