Embrace Yourself Today

All of my life I have been a planner. I have a very type A personality. I need a plan a....b,c,d,e and f. Since being married it seems as though   my  plan a,b,c,d,e and f always fail; my husband feels the same way. Funny enough, it feels like every plan we make turns out the exact opposite of what we planned. This has been a point of much frustration to me…The only thing I knew for sure, my plans were not foiled because of God; and I knew he would never be to blame.   It dawned on me that in most of our plan making we never consulted the Lord. We lived on assumption, human desire and human ability to plan. Let me give you an example: I always assumed that after we had our first child we would be playing (basketball) overseas for about 7 more years before retiring. I had it in my mind that I would homeschool and we would raise little jet setting babies. Well, here we are a year after Roselyn is born and we are stateside. The last jet we set was when R was 10 we...

God created you for something great! He created you with a purpose in mind. He created you to do something NO ONE else on earth can do. He designed you and fashioned you for that purpose. He placed that purpose in your heart. Without you, that purpose will NEVER be fulfilled; only you were created to accomplish it.  Your gifts and your passions are a sneak peek of what your purpose is. Do not let what has occurred in your life determine what you can do. Do not allow yourself to be a victim of circumstance. Some of the world’s greatest leaders, advocates, athletes, ministers, writers and doctors where born in adversity and raised in hell; but they all had one thing in common: they were determined. They were determined to make a change, they were determined to ‘get out’, to make something of their life, to prove to themselves and others that they could do anything they put their mind to.  So I ask you, will you allow what has happened in your past or is what happe...