Choosing to SEE

I just finished Mary Beth Chapman's book, Choosing to SEE. It was an excellent book detailing events of her life leading up to and in the days following the accident that took her young daughter's life. What a great book on trusting and believing God when the worst things happen in your life. I would recommend this to anyone, especially to those who might be going through a major life crisis. May God be praised!!

Football

I enjoyed watching another of our grandson's football games tonight--along with my husband, daughter, and his siblings. The weather has been beautiful and with a warm coat, scarf, blankets, etc. it is very enjoyable and not too cold.

We do spend a lot of time with grandchildren's sports--it is fun and relaxing too. Fall baseball is now over but practices for spring baseball and travel teams are already starting!!!

My husband and I are working on cleaning and sorting things in our huge barn. It is really a pole building. We are trying to do an hour a day (during the week). It is really like eating an elephant but we can see some progress. We are giving away, burning, dumping, and taking scrap metal off for $$. Hopefully this will get rid of a lot of stuff and we will have much free space for children to play and working on projects in there. (painting, fixing things etc)

I am reading a book called The Perfect love by a lady named Ruth Myers. I am really being blessed by some of what she shares. Ruth and her husband are on staff with the Navigators and served many years as a missionary. "If you want real love, ideal love, limitless love, God's heart is where to find it. It's the only love big enough to meet the God-sized needs of your life."

Inexpressible, indescribable, inexhaustible, incomparable, limitless, overflowing, intensely personal, all-surpassing, all understanding, always higher, always deeper, forever faithful, forever honoring, forever protecting, more than satisfying, more than wonderful, altogether strong, altogether tender, ever long, ever delighting. . . Where can you find the kind of love you truly need?

Unconditional Love

From Postcards From Heaven--Claire Cloninger

Dear child of mine,

As you were growing up in this imperfect world, you learned that if you were a good little child, you would be loved. This is the kind of love the world is famous for. It is called "conditional love" because it comes with conditions--with strings attached. It is love you must work and strive and struggle to earn. But it is not real love. It is a counterfeit--a cheap forgery of a priceless masterpiece.

My love is real and unconditional. It cannot be earned. Try to understand this truth, for it will deeply affect the way you live your life: You cannot make me love you more by anything you do or do not do. And you cannot make me love you less by anything you do or do not do.

Take a minute and read those two sentences again. If you are willing to allow my deep, true, unconditional love to seep down into your wounded spirit, that love will make you whole. And from the endless stream of love I shall put within you, true repenance will flow. Then you will love a good life, not in order to make me love you, but because I already do love you! You will be set free to live with joy and abandon. You will be released to love others with this same kind of love.

Does it sound too good to be true? Dare to believe it. Open your heart to receive it. You will never be the same.
Unconditionally,
GOD

"This is what real love is: It is not our love for God; it is God's love for us in sending his Son to be the way to take away our sins." 1 John 4:10