Life's Image

I woke up this morning with some thoughts and images in my mind that had caused my heart to cringe yesterday.  In fact, I may even offend some of my friends and family with what I'm going to say.   After having been out shopping with my husband yesterday, I felt a deep calling to write about it...but, in my heart I knew it would be risky and the possibility of losing some people in my life kept me from being obedient to my Lord.  Lord forgive me for not putting Your call into action immediately. I feel I need to share a bit from my past so that I am transparent here and so those who have a time frame ready in their mind regarding it, won't need to comment. Not just a year ago, I too wore clothes that revealed cleavage and made sure that I wore the "perfect" bra so that they were presented well.  And even before then, I made choices in my life that I know did not win people to Christ.  In fact, I'm sure I kept some from even seeing Him in...

How do we forgive someone who has wronged us or hurt someone we love? How can we forgive when we don't feel forgiveness. Carrie ten Boom, survivor of a women's Nazi concentration camp, wrote, " Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature if the heart." For every Christian, forgiveness is a choice, in order to fully receive God's forgiveness we must willingly extend forgiveness to others. Though an act of her will. Corrie forgave her persecutors and her sister's murderers.  Jesus forgave humankind of even more.  How can we do less? ~(From  "The Bible Promise Book for Women) For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. (Matthew  6:14 , 15 KJV) And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath fo...