God's Incredible Love

Well, it has been many months since I last wrote. I haven't just not had the time, I've really not had any thoughts that were burning in me to blog. Since I last wrote, we opened our new Pizza Factory and that has meant spending long long days and nights of working at the store. As you can see by the new picture, the store is complete and beautiful. We are so pleased with the result.

Anyway, this morning I actually had a thought that was burning in me to blog. I was thanking my Heavenly Father for His faithfulness and provision to my husband and I and I realized how much I am loved and how much grace He has poured out upon us. I was also thinking about our store managers at our businesses, Leigh, Robin and Joni and realized how much I appreciate them. Without them we could not operate like we do. They are invaluable to us. The time and energy they exert to take care of our businesses is great.

But I then realized how much I love my daughter Kelly, who by the way is within 18 days of giving birth to our first grandchild! As much as I appreciate the hard work that our managers exert for us, Kelly is the one who I hold in my heart as precious. I would never consider leaving our inheritance to anyone but her, even though she doesn't do anything workwise for me. She is precious to me because she is my child.

That led me to the thought about God's grace and love. It isn't a matter of our working hard for Him or trying to please Him that causes Him to love us unconditionally. He loves us because we are His, His precious children. How grateful I am that I can never do anything to cause Him to love me more or less. His love for me reaches to the heavens. Wow!

Anyway, hopefully I'll have more time and thoughts to spend here on my blog. I have missed it. I hope now to get back to writing and speaking God's grace and love to women everywhere!

Love, hope and faith

This morning as I was walking and praying for our nation, and our economy and the elections, I felt the Lord break in on me and remind me of something really important. He quoted 1 Corinthians 13: "Faith, hope and love". I realized that in the midst of the battle of the season that we are in, and because of our passion for God's Kingdom to come, it is very easy to end up being angry with the people who oppose our ideas and opinions concerning the elections. We get so caught up in what we think is right, that we end up having hard hearts and losing all perspective of what the Kingdom is about. We will not convey love and Godly wisdom to those we speak to if we are hard hearted and hateful.

So He reminded me that in this season of seeming hopelessness, He wants to give us faith and hope and over it all, love. Ephesians 6 says that we fight not against flesh and blood, but against the powers and principalities of this present darkness. The people who disagree with us are not the enemy, darkness is the enemy. My pastor this morning told us to not be discouraged with the prevailing darkness, because light shines brighter in darkness and people will be drawn to the light.

Yes, keep fighting in fervent prayer!! We are called to be stewards and warriors in the affairs of the earth, but let's not be distracted from the foundation of the Kingdom of God. Let's ask God for a baptism of faith, hope and love. I believe that is the Lord's heart.