Open the eyes of my Heart

Sometimes the angry faces and worn-out mothers, whiny children, or upset fathers aren't all that they seem.  They're people. Just like you and me. I consider myself to have a good life. I have family, great friends, I have food, a job, a car. I have an education and a little bit of spending money. I have college potential and a house. And even with all this, I seem to have "bad days".  But what about all the people who don't have all that I do? A single mother of 3, or a recently divorced adult. A struggling man, or hungry child. A man who just lost his job, or just another failed interview. A woman who's husband just died, leaving her stranded with 2 toddlers. A family who's child died in a car accident. An adult who just found out they had cancer. A teen who has a positive test after an all-night party.  I am realizing that everyone's life is not the same as mine. Not everyone has stuff, cars, money, a house, or food. Not everyone has ...

"The average smartphone owner spends more than two hours each day using the device. During that time, smartphone owners spend an average of 25 minutes using their phone to browse the web, 17 minutes on social networking, 13 minutes playing games and 16 minutes listening to music. [telegraph.co.uk]" "The average adult will spend over 5 hours per day online, on nonvoice mobile activities or with other digital media this year, eMarketer estimates, compared to 4 hours and 31 minutes watching television. Daily TV time will actually be down slightly this year, while digital media consumption will be up 15.8%. The most significant growth area is on mobile. Adults will spend an average of 2 hours and 21 minutes per day on nonvoice mobile activities. [emarketer.com]" In the above statistics, almost 8 hours a day is used on Internet/phones ALONE.  While the use of Internet has greatly increased the convenience of organization, timely meetings, q...

Come to Me, I'm all you need. We have drifted so far far far away from that truth. To truly believe and live as if He is all we need. I feel like sometimes God just can't help but to look at us living life, striving after things and appointments and places and work and school when all we need is to live in that truth. That He is all we need. He is our steadfast. Your fleshly life and heart WILL fail you. Accept that. But also understand that He is our faithful steadfast to carry and pick us up when we need it because we WILL need it. And because of that, we have hope. We strive after so much more. After things not after His own heart, and He sits there wanting us to turn back and run to Him. He is closer than my breath. I can hear Him calling me back to Him, and I see many things holding me back from His warm embrace when His Grace has already accomplished that. I am FREE. No evil can conquer me, I am His. So I will run. I will push my distractions away and run. I ...

"I make all things new." Maybe thats how God wants us to be. Overwhelmed at the thought--or fake sight of Jesus. That's how I am. Crying out. I am in Love. I have always wondered what it would be like to fall in Love with Jesus. People say it all the time, and now I realize. I want to Love Him with ALL that I am. After seeing a clip like that and imagining that He was thinking of ME when He died? When He said that..He wanted to make ME new? I am overwhelmed. Overwhelmed at His constant renewal of Grace that covers me. Covers my sin; me. His body that was poured out for me so that the righteous requirements of the Law might be met.  I am Loved. In His great Grace and Mercy, he CHOSE me. Chose me to be His by offering Himself. He LOVES ME with an everlasting love. He cares so much about me to send his own Son into the sinful world that He LOVES. I am free. I am free from all that once held me down. All that once kept me in the dark realms of this wor...