Hi friends....
I don't know about you guys, but Saturday mornings are just about my favorite time of the week. I don't usually have anywhere I have to be so I can lounge around out in my sunroom, drink my coffee, do my bible study/prayer time and maybe even sneak in a little reading too before I have to get dressed and start my day. Some time ago, I started posting a bible verse each morning on my twitter/facebook pages as my first status of the day. It's been amazing to me how many people have told me that they love going to my page each day to see what verse I posted. I've had many friends ask me "How do you come up with all those scriptures to post? Are you going to some website every morning to find them?" -- Nope. I just post something that came up in my morning study/devotional time that touched me that day, hoping it will touch someone else too, and apparently it's working... yay!
Anyway, I feel I'm being called to go a step further with this... so I'm going to start posting a blog each Saturday morning which will include my favorite verse and or quote of that week and go into a little more explanation about why that particular verse/quote touched me, what it means exactly, or where it came from. I hope you all will post your thoughts on here as well.
This past Wednesday night, I was asked to come share my music in a mid-week "Serenity Prayer Service" at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church here in Nashville. It was a beautiful and sweet service and I'm so thankful I was there. Doug Himes gave a great sermon that night and one of the things he said that stood out to me was "We need each other. We can't do life alone." So true!! I hope that we can start a little "Saturday morning" community, sharing verses, quotes, thoughts or anything that touched you this past week.
Ok.. let's get this thing rollin'! -- My first quote/verse of the week is: (drum roll please!):
"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
This quote was found in a book that my birth mother accidentally left at my house last time she came to visit. (Of course, there ARE no accidents, right?--lol) The book is called "In God's Care". The book goes on to explain:
What we do or don't believe shows. And the intensity of our beliefs is bound to have either a positive or negative impact on people around us. If we are consistently cheerful, it shows other people we believe things are going to turn out all right. If we are consistently down, glum, and grouchy, we show others that we expect the worst.
Our attitude is up to us. We can control our state of mind. In fact, our ability to change our mind -- and our mood-- is the greatest power for good or evil we have.
Sometimes we forget this. It's not so hard to remember, though, if we have a daily, hourly, even moment-by-moment relationship with our Higher Power. then, whether purposely or not, our attitude is cheerful and our faith becomes contagious.
Today I will make sure my faith in God shows.
That one hit me pretty hard. DOES my faith show? I mean, I KNOW it shows sometimes, but I'm afraid it's not consistent.
I know my faith shows when I'm singing at church, but does it show when I'm standing in line at the bank, getting impatient with the elderly man that's counting out quarters at the teller and holding up the whole line?
I know my faith shows when I'm posting bible verses on facebook/twitter, but does it show when I'm driving and someone speeds past me then cuts me off?
I know my faith shows when I'm alone, reading my bible, but what about when I'm just living my life, out in the world, without my bible right in front of me.... do people still see my beliefs?
It's something I'm working on for sure. Thankfully God's grace and mercy is true and abundant. And HIS love/faith/belief in ME--IS consistent!!
I hope everyone has a good week.... and I hope you'll come visit me here each Saturday morning for "Saturday Morning Scriptures and Stuff"....
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