- "Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going-to-work and walking around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him."


+ Eternity is now, right now, in the simple moments of your life. Salvation is now every time you look to Me to translate what things mean. It is always in the little moments - the quiet things that could so easily be overlooked - that I wait to show you redemption. When you seek to embrace what God is doing, a day... one day can burst with revelation of My Love and Presence. The Father reaches down eternally...minute by minute...to show you His beauty...His Love...His faithfulness. He is waiting excitedly for you to find Him (not unlike the way your little Cooper waits for you to find him in Hide and Seek). So He waits to reveal exquisite beauty to you...the depth...breath...height...and length of His Perfect Love. The Holy Spirit has been given to you to expand your capacity to see, to absorb and to believe. Ah what joy it gives your Father when you simply believe in all the simple, unassuming ways He calls your name. He loves it when you turn your heart to Him...looking for His face ...sure that He loves you. Ah...when you stop and are actually still...just for Him...and you fix your gaze on what is UNSEEN and WAIT...that's when your rainbow-laden eyes are given sight! Yours is not a distant Father...demanding and elusive. Yours is a Papa Who RUNS to meet you...delights to give you His Best Robe and Who celebrates with abandon your heart of repentance. Every time you turn to Him and choose Him is a cause for great celebration. And, rather than hold you accountable and keep you at arms' length until you've demonstrated proper penance...He throws penance into His vast sea of forgetfulness, pulls you close and just LOVES you! Why do you think My constant refrain and reference...My heart and my Life were consumed by My Father! It is because there is NO ONE Who even begins to compare with HIM...EVER!! To know Him is to be set in a place of luminous, radiant JOY that cannot be matched or destroyed. This is what the crucifixion was for. He gave the Highest Proof of the Totality of His Love for you when He asked Me to be His Perfect Sacrifice to buy you back. You will never understand this exchange on this side of eternity. But the Holy Spirit...the Incarnation of His Heart...has been given to you to live in you and give you tiny glimpses. This, beloved daughter of the King, is the Truth that has set the world and you free forever.  So, when you embrace what God is doing in your life...know that you give Him pleasure. Fathers love to love their children and oh how they loved to be loved back! They get measureless Joy out of their children's simplest moments. You are His design, created out of His Perfect heart of Love...so...embrace Him back by ever holding Him in your heart.