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It’s why we do what we do that determines if it’s love or selfishness. Love does what is truly best for others without regard for itself, but love can’t control what others do. If we love someone and they refuse to love, then love may require we step back to ensure we don’t enable the destruction of the selfish person. Or we can protect ourself without regard for them, and make sure they know if they hurt us again what it will cost them....but that just ensures we become what we are fighting. Lo …

I really don’t think love even exist until a sacrifice is required. Loving people who love us is an even exchange. Loving when we are hurt...now that’s real love. This does not mean it’s okay to hurt me. It just means I forgive you for hurting me, and I want you to stop hurting people for your own sake. It’s a fight for you not for me. I just get protected in the process. Really, love protects us better than we could ever protect ourselves anyway. We just can’t do it for ourself, or it’s no long …

Trusting God is looking at your circumstances, looking at your fears, looking at God’s Word and deciding to trust what God says more than anything else. In the end, after looking at all options, we all act on something and we all trust something. It’s really crazy to think our feelings are more dependable than God’s Word, yet it’s still a tough fight to trust God’s Word when our feelings are so real. Feelings being real does not make them valid or true. “The Right Fight” is the fight to trust Go …

We are all made in God's image. Perfectly crafted and molded with precision detail. No two of us are exactly alike and We are all made in God's image. Perfectly crafted and molded with precision detail. No two of us are exactly alike and even identical twins have differences.   So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27   We are ALL already perfect in God's eyes. A Masterpiece actually …

The first 316 that I would like to talk about is how we know what true love is! This love was formed when Jesus gave up His life for us. In John 3:16 the Bible tells us: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.                                &nb …

We have often been taught the math rule that 3/3 = 1 (a whole).  In fact, the formal definition of a whole is: (1): free of wound or injury :unhurt(2): recovered from a wound or injury :restored(3): being healed b: free of defect or impairment :intactc: physically sound and healthy : free of disease or deformity d: mentally or emotionally sound: having all its proper parts or components :complete, unmodified :constituting the total sum or undiminished entirety :entire …

Faith by the dictionary definition is: "Complete trust or confidence in someone or something".  One of the Bibles best definitions of faith can be found in Hebrews 11:1 which says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Verse 3 tells us: "Through Faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear". Even Jesus had His Faith tested by the devil in the …

 "I'll ask Daddy" he will know what to do!  Every father has heard these words before. Our kids trust us unconditionally and they depend on us to help them navigate through this world with all its twists and turns.  We won't have all of the answers in life for our children and we will surely make many mistakes. We were never issued an instruction manual for raising children and the advice from others is usually not as helpful as we would like.  People have their own i …

Summer Flowers We have reached that warm weather season again. The kids are out of school, watermelon is in season and the flowers are in bloom. Flowers given as gifts convey many different meanings.  In Victorian times, certain flowers had specific meanings because the flower selection was limited and people used more symbols and gestures to communicate than words. But today, with so many flower choices, there are no rules - it's the sentiment that gives the gift its …

Decoration Day Memorial Day was once known as Decoration Day. Decoration Day began after the American Civil War to commemorate the Confederate and Union soldiers who had died in the war. The mourners honored the fallen by placing flowers on their graves. On the first Decoration Day in 1868, over 5,000 participants decorated over 20,000 Union and Confederate graves buried in Arlington National cemetery. What a sight that must have been! In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson's Administratio …