​Life is short so it’s important to make the best out of our day. It’s not worth holding on to things, it’s not worth having a negative attitude, it’s not worth trying to bring people down and it’s not worth doing things that would stop us from being what God has called us to be.
 
Everything we do either moves us to the next level or puts a pause on reaching our destiny. In thinking back on my life, I can see that a lot of time was wasted by doing things that were not important, doing things that didn’t enhance my relationship with God and doing things that didn’t make me a better person.  However, in order for me to grow within, I had to go through some things to see God’s work.  You see, sometimes God puts a mirror right in front of us so that we can clearly see ourselves in what we’re doing or the life that we’re living.
 
I didn’t understand the importance of things until I got older and had to suffer some of the consequences. I realized that life is a gift and I had to change some things in my life in order to serve and have joy doing it one day at a time.  Life is truly what we make of it but when we put God first and not ourselves, we can clearly see-through God’s lenses and have peace in our lives.  The purpose of life is to serve and work towards holiness the best way we know how.  God uses us to do the work to prepare us for Heaven and He gives us the wisdom to know how to act and respond to situations.  We should never hold grudges because life is not about us, when someone is negative, we should show kindness, when someone does something that we think is not right, we should speak our peace but still show love and sometimes it’s important to just be still.  When we don’t show love, we’re bringing others down as well as stopping others from seeing the light of Jesus.  That is so true.
 
The bottom line is let’s not waste time from enjoying life, giving hope to the world, and fixing ourselves. God told me awhile back to stop looking at what others do and look at what I was doing.  Once I realize how true that statement was, it changed my life.  In order to have peace and enjoy each day, we have to be humble, accept God’s grace, show love, treat people the way we would want to be treated and most of all, work towards listening more to God and answering Him when He calls so we can be the vessel in what He has called us to be on our journey.
 
Amen and Thank You Lord

​When we make choices, there are sometimes consequences that come after.  Therefore, it’s very important to try and make good choices so that we don’t have to deal with things after the fact.  In order to avoid some of this, we can think before we act and ask ourselves would this choice be best for me and how would it impact others?
 
Let’s be real, we all make mistakes, and we learn day by day from what we do, what we do to others or what others do to us. Our job is to know how to walk with integrity, not bring stress on our lives or the lives of others and when we have negative encounters that come our way with people, we have to know how to control ourselves and still be positive.  Most of the time, we spend so much energy into beating ourselves up about what we have done or what others have done to us.  We have to understand that we can’t take back yesterday but we can make today better. If we’ve done something to someone else, apologize, ask for forgiveness, and keep it moving.  When we don’t humble ourselves to know how to say “I’m sorry” we need to do some evaluation within.  Forgiveness is not for the other person but for the one who forgives. It helps the other person but mainly it's for the one who forgives. THAT’S SO IMPORTANT TO KNOW AND SO POWERFUL.
 
We all need love and when we do wrong, don’t we want Jesus to forgive us so why can’t we forgive others?  It has so many benefits to forgive and it actually changes the world for the best.  How we handle ourselves is what would bring hope to the world and for people to see God’s Grace and Mercy.
 
The goal is to grow and basically, God is teaching us day by day how to love and how to make a difference in the world by the choices that we make.  He gives us the tools to make the right choices to avoid consequences but, we all are still learning, we all have faults, and we all need Jesus. 
 
Let’s work towards being better to ourselves, to others and as I said before think before we act.

Amen and Thank You Lord