Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Future Blogs

Well, you don't hear from me for a few weeks then get two blogs within 24 hours. This is what I like about you...you still are faithful to read it.

I want to apologize for forgetting to tell you where the blog will go from here. I plan to continue the Leaping Butterfly Blog, but will send it out once a month instead of every week. Would, also, love to get some topic suggestions from you too. My email address is located in the contact tab and would appreciate any topic you would like for me to do in regards to our continued walk with Christ.

Thank you so much for reading the blog this year and for sending me your comments. It has blessed me beyond words and encouraged me to keep in step with our Savior as He guides. Believe me...it's been a transformational process that I have truly been blessed by. 

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Never Say Never

One year ago this month I did something I never thought I could do—write a weekly blog. Of all the people I’ve ever known in my lifetime ‘I’ would have voted me the Least Likely to do so. But God, has a way of taking our ‘Nevers’ and turning them into a blazing passion for “Forevers”. 

I know you’ve heard this before, “If God can transform me…He can transform anybody.” So true of me and so true of you! The testimonies are endless how the Lord has done extraordinary things through ordinary people. Why? Because we are ordinary and He is extraordinary.

Thank you for encouraging me through this last year’s journey. I never really had an agenda for the week. God taught me to sit still (hardest part), in my chair, with fingers on the keyboard and wait for Him to tell me what to write.

Transformation has taken place in my own heart as I searched to hear His soft whisper, “This is what I would like for you to write...” I don’t know if I was more excited about what He was going to tell me or if I couldn’t wait to use it as an excuse to spend one-on-one time together.

My writing interest started years ago as I learned to journal my prayers and thoughts to Him in a pretty little book. I wanted record in order to have the opportunity to see where He’s taken me. One word sums it up—Amazing! Never did I dream He would ever use my poor decisions, pain, and sufferings, in order to glorify Himself even more. What a privilege to see how He works.

So with this, I write in this year’s final blog about transformation that I will move on to finish the ultimate “Never”…my book entitled, “Loving a Leaping Butterfly”. I desperately need your prayers as I open my heart so I can find God’s. ALL for His glory!

“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
1 Corinthians 10:31

What is the first thing that pops into your mind when you finish this sentence; “I’ll never do…” What if God says, “Good, I’ll do it through you!”? Wouldn’t it be a double blessing to do something you never thought you could, then see how much it glorified Him because you were right?

PS Dawn, thank you for getting me off to a great writing start with the blog. Your sweet friendship and patience nudged me to do. Bless you!  And, to all my precious Words for the Journey friends…you enabled me to imagine what God can and will do if we’re willing. Bless you too!