Freedom

The day we give our hearts over to God, surrendering all we have, is the day we will discover freedom. His love will grow so deeply in our hearts, because there is finally room for him to love us fully. You see we have to make that room. We have to make that choice that God is all we need! There is nothing or no one who could be enough for us other than Christ! He is enough for us! He designed us to need Him! However, we try to recreate ourselves to be different from God's original design. We allow ourselves to be creator instead of creation. God sees our idolatry and yet we still say we love Him. To love God is to know Him. How can we know Him when we are to busy knowing other things? Creator and creation are not the same roles. Yet we try to make these two roles into what it was never created to be. God  should be our focus, not ourselves or people. When we allow God to take His rightful position in our lives, that is when all things will be in order. "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."- Matt 6:33 Are we seeking God or creation? Let us be reminded that we did not design ourselves nor this earth. How dare we think we are higher than God. Imagine the hurt we cause Him. We can't say we love God and do as we want. That isn't love. We have taken love and placed our own definition on it, which then comes against God, because we care more about our personal desires. We should only be about our Father's business. What business do we have without Him? Freedom comes through total submission to God. This is also called obedience. We no longer will be slaves to sin. "For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin."- Romans 6:6  Let us leave what is old behind us! It is time to experience God's love in total surrenderance. That is how we will experience FREEDDOM.
""I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me"- Galatians 2:20

That Word We All Hate: FAILURE

THERE GOES THAT WORD AGAIN!! FAILURE! O BOY! NOT AGAIN!

I mean honestly who wants to talk about failure or the possibility that we all will fail at something in life? But the fact is we need to talk about it!

THAT'S RIGHT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT!

You see failure is important to discuss, because it is a part of success. 

Before we start.... Take a deep breath, because we are diving deep in today's topic. This may be hard to take in. 

It's important to understand that not one of us, and I mean not one of us is perfect. It's unrealistic for anyone to think their perfect. Not one person in history has been referred to as being “perfect”. Look at all the Presidents we've had. Do you remember any of them not making any mistakes? Look at Albert Einstein for example. Einstein is known in history to be the world’s #1 genius of all time, however; he was not always considered a genius. As a young child Einstein was thought to be slow by his teachers. He even was expelled from school, because of his rebellious ways. Yet, this is the same man that won the Nobel Prize and led the way for the United States through his research on the atomic bomb. How many times did Einstein fail? Well, we will never know that exact amount, but we do know he failed. His failure was a part of his growth, which ultimately led to his success.

How will we ever be able to succeed if we don't fail at something? I like to think of failure as the growing pains of life. Failure teaches and matures us. It gives us variety and ultimately becomes a teaching tool for us and others we come in contact with in life. When we fail at something it can become our very own lesson plan. We can use our lesson plan to teach someone else who may be facing the same experiences that we once faced. Failure helps us learn to not give up. If we truly learn to embrace failure we will learn to fight and excel beyond belief. Nothing in this world comes easy, if that was the case struggles would not exist. We will always be students in life no matter what age, because we are forever growing. 

Your greatest challenges are the stepping stones to success. Failure is seen to be negative, when in fact it is positive, because it is needed. It teaches us that we are not perfect, and that we are learners in life. How will we ever learn to lead if we have never failed before? That C you may have gotten will teach you to work for the A you desire. That failed relationship you had will teach you how to have a better relationship for the future. That mistake you made, is the same mistake you can teach someone else not to make. Embrace your failures. Learn that you aren't perfect and that's ok. Rome was not built in one day, and your story is not going to be written in one day either. It is an unending chapter full of losses and wins, and that my friends is all a part of the journey.

Furthering

And

Improving

Life's

Unending

Revisions

Everyday

-CO:Michelle M

- Until Next Time- The Counselor

Life Is A Journey Not A Destination

Your journey is waiting for you today.It looks like a long road ahead I know. It may even be scary. However, it is waiting for you to start today. This journey may not be easy, but it is the journey that you must take. Why is it important to start this journey? It's important because this journey is your calling. It was designed just for you. There will be trials and tribulation in this journey, but don’t fear this, it will make you strong.  In this journey you will also experience joy and celebration; there will be special times you will never forget. You will fail and then get back up again. You will also experience growing pains that will mold you into the person you are meant to be. This journey is your life, and it is not a destination. Some of us have decided to settle and not take this journey. When you settle, you make up in your mind that you have reached your destination. A journey is completely different than that. When you take the journey of life you won't settle, because you want to grow and expand. On a journey you go after your dreams, and your dreams become reality. If you settle you will never know the amount of potential you have. If you are breathing right now it’s not too late. 



Start today! Get up and get going your journey is waiting for you!

Distractions

What is your distraction currently in your life today? Just take a minute to think about it and also ask God to show you.

I hope that in the moment you took you became aware of the distractions in your life. You see being aware of your distractions is important. Not being aware is dangerous and harmful to your journey.

We sometimes may think our distractions aren't that big or even risky. However, they are big and risky.

 

Distractions will keep you from being focused on your calling, and ultimately you will lose focus on your mission. You can even become a slave to your distractions. Distractions can control and limit you. The scariest part is that distractions can blind you from seeing what’s important. This will leave you lost and stagnant. On your journey you can't travel with distractions, because it will hinder your vision. Look at the picture above, you can see that the rock is blocking the other side of the road. Can you see what’s behind that rock? It’s almost impossible to see what’s behind it! This is an example of what distractions can do to your life.

 Do you want to be able to see again? Are you ready to continue on your journey with vision? Now is that time. This is the day to start. You have been distracted for far too long. There is something waiting for you on the other side of that rock! No longer do you have time to entertain your distractions. It's time for you to put your priorities first, you only have 1 journey, so live it out to the best of your ability.

-Lady M

(Thanks for listening <3)

She:


Inside of me

There is this girl who has been locked away

she isn't happy any of her days

she walks around with these 10 min smiles

and often has to lie so one knows what she feels like inside

she breaks down her future with the hammer of doubt

                                                            leaving her with tiredness and burn-out

                                                                    She looks in the mirror and hates what she sees

 She sees that in this skin she is slowly dying from the insecurity disease

                                       Constantly she examines what she is not

                                             This leaves her mind on one thought

                                                               Worthless

                                             Yup that girl with no purpose

The one who hides so cowardly behind her fears

The one who cant even shed tears

Who is too afraid of opening up

                                  The one who is always telling herself to just give up

                                     The one who never opens doors to new possibilities

Because she believes she does not have any capabilities

                                     She believes she could never be who she is meant to be

                                        Because she refuses to be set free

                                               She stays locked away

                                       Never wanting to experience a new way

                                        She finds comfort in trusting only herself

                               Because to many people placed her on a book shelf

                                           Why cant she just change

                                        Why is her heart so hard to rearrange

                                           Why cant there be some peace

                                       Its because its her heart she can't release.

The Indifferent

Known to be the one who is different

The one who accepts the name indifferent

The one who does not go along with societies meanings

and feelings about life

The one who does not fit life's stereotypes.

but stabs ignorance deep with a knife

The one who never was named brave

But was once life's slave

With chains of opinion shackled to her mind

Which left her eyes of truth blind

She was once the one who always felt left behind

Just a fading memory that no one cared to find

She never would stand for her dreams

Instead she lost them in her eyes when she cried streams

She refused to hear her heart's screams

She would let them choke to death

Enough that she could fake joys breath

She was hiding and often lying

In the shadows she hid her desires 

She let her true self die in the fires

She wanted to be free in this life, however she only knew strife

A strife that was colored by brokenness, pain and fear

She could not see anything clear

Opinions of others brought her death and the ending of her life was near

She soon began to grow tired and weary 

Her life became more and more bleary.

She wanted a new beginning

Something or Someone that would give her meaning

That would leave her heart singing

But what and how would be so willing?

Whose love would be unending

And would be so forgiving

THE ONE SHE WONDERED ABOUT

SOON CAME

He saw all of her shame

And took on all of the blame

He gave her a new name

He wanted her to win

And know the beauty and truth that was within

He gave her beauty for her ashes

All because he took all of her sin's slashes

For her Father in heaven gave her more

He opened her heart's door

She non longer had to be the world's minion

because He  gave her dominion

She held captive every lie satan placed in her head 

She put on instead every word that He said

This is the beauty  in her Father's blood that was shed

You see it wasn't just an accident that she was born different

She was meant to accept the name indifferent

She was never meant to accept life's lies

She was born to rise

She was born again because God heard her  cries

He gave her  vision 

And the power to fight against division

He set her free 

To her calling he gave her the key

Inside waiting for her was a beautiful growing tree

You see

The one who was Known to be different

Was once me

But God showed me who I could really be

I was born to be His child

He looked upon me even in my sin and smiled

Why you may ask?
Because He was ready to take off my mask
He was ready to teach me a new task

To speak of his love
And how it can only be experienced from the one up above

You were made to be different my friends

Its time to stop looking through the wrong lens

Its time to experience a new name

You see life is not a game

You don't want your true life to burn up in a flame

It is your life he wants to claim

May this poem hit your hearts deeply

Because for your life he died and it was not paid cheaply.

The Struggles In Life

       If we were to take a magnifying glass to look at our lives from a distance what would we see? We might see  how many times someone has wronged us, how many times we  made mistakes, the times we failed or fell down, the pains of our heart's deepest secrets, and the tears we shed. In a sum we would see life's struggles. Looking back at life's struggles can either be difficult or easy for some us. However, we each can say at least we have learned or grown from one of those struggles. Now for another question why are struggles so important?

   Struggles shapes us into the person we're meant to be. Without struggles we would be trees slumping low, and dried out. Our branches would easily break because our soil, which is our foundation, would be weak, with little nutrience. We would be weak when winds blow, and rain pours. 




    You see struggles are the bitter sweet seeds that helps us grow. We may not like the first taste of those seeds, however the after taste is sweet. Struggles are a part of us and it makes us. Without them we would never be the person we were meant to be.





- Lady M