Blessed Beyond Belief

I am reading a wonderful book called "Staying in Love for a Lifetime" by Ed Wheat. I wanted to share what I learned this morning about loving . I hope you are as encouraged as I have been: Real love is not mysterious or irrational. Real love is not a simple, easy, doing what comes naturally. Real love is not an uncontrollable feeling. Real love is not produced by trying to attract it. I can understand what love is through the Word of God. I can learn the art of loving. I can choose to love. I can produce by giving it first and giving it wisely… Love recognizes a unique value in the beloved Love chooses to affirm the value of the beloved always Love consistently does what is best for the beloved Love is an active power to be controlled by the will. Love is always a choice backed up by action. Love is costly even when giving is pure joy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After reading some stories from the Foxe's Book of Martyrs Kayla (11) commented :"Mommy, I

Yesterday I was given an invitation to sin. Well, I am given hundreds of invitations to sin everyday. Aren't I popular? ;) Anyway I was not expecting this invitation. It was sprung on me as I was returning some chairs I had bought with a bit of money I had received for my birthday. After the cashier had returned the 54.00 onto my credit card he began to pull cash out of the drawer to give me. "What is he doing?" I thought. "He already refunded the money to my credit card. Oh........ he is going to give me the money back twice". Time stopped for a moment as Satan, dressed in a tuxedo on my own sinful heart stepped in and handed me an invitation. I was given an invitation to sin. I thought about it for a second. And you know what? I like money. Money is fun. And we sure could use money, I mean with gas prices and everything else that has skyrocketed in cost, we could use this extra 54.0o. Now, there are things I would never do. I mean I actually take pride in the

We women are funny creatures. We have high expectations. We demand the best from our husbands. Then we belittle them in our minds and hearts and even our words when they don't perform to our expectations. I was talking to a friend the other day about this phenonmenon. We will actually look at all the best qualities in every man we meet, then we compare our husband's worst qualities to these other men's best qualities. We will compose in our imagination the ideal man, taking all the best qualities and leaving behind the worst ones in our friend's husbands, our pastors, even our doctors. And then we get mad that our husband is not like our fantasy man. We also withhold respect, affection, love and sex from our husbands. These are the things that God has created our husbands to live on. It is their gasoline if you will. So, imagine a husband is a car. He needs premium quality gasoline to perform at his best. To perform the way God created him to perform. If you fill him up