How Does God View His Children?

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I have the privilege of bring my four year old daughter to work with me every Tuesday and Thursday before I drop her off at her pre-school early learning program.  The early learning program is in the same building I work in.  She is the second of four children and the first girl of the bunch.  On these mornings it is just her and I and we get some one on one time that I just love to have with her.  We have a routine where I get her up and I fix her hair (not very good I might add), get her dresses and then pack her lunch, usually peanut butter and jelly and put it in her pink Barbie lunch box.  We stop at a local gas station and I get a coffee and she gets to pick out any donut she wants.  We arrive at my work office and she pulls a chair up next to me at my desk and she eats her donut while I answer a few emails.  The other day while this routine was happening, I sat back and just looked at her and thought…these are great times.  You see during these times my daughter is so sweet, loving, obeys and just a real joy to have around.  We tell each other we love each other and she hugs on me, she draws pictures on my whiteboard, drinks chocolate milk etc. Donuts and chocolate milk, I know what you are thinking, but this post is not about my parenting choices for breakfast food.  Anyway, hopefully I have painted a picture that this girl is an angel during these one on one morning’s we get to have and I just love it…would not trade them for anything. Read more

August 10, 2008 · Filed Under Devotionals, Misc, My Favorites

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Symptoms are misleading, when will you find the root cause?

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The title of this post says it all…”symptoms are misleading…”  Just like an iceberg, symptoms are what can be seen, but the root cause is still below the surface.  Before I gave my life over to Christ and became His child, I thought I was a Christian and was going to heaven when I died.  I truly believed I was His child and that all my poor decisions and negative reactions in life were just symptoms of what life threw at me daily.  Just because the symptoms were negative reactions and poor decisions, that did not mean I was not his child, right?  Wrong.  For me the symptoms that I diagnosed as “what life threw at me” were really a missing relationship with our Heavenly Father. 

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April 10, 2008 · Filed Under Devotionals, Misc, My Favorites

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