My God

              I   see marriages falling apart on TV, I read about marriages torn in half in magazines and I hear about seemingly rock solid couples crumbling before my eyes and although I am not married and I don't know what goes into a marriage it seems to me that no one really values it anymore.  I believe that nothing should come before your marriage, not work, money, socialising, distance, or petty disagreements. Nothing!  if i was married and I knew things were heading in the wrong direction and I knew the cause, I'd do anything in my power to change it, fix or stop it from happening because I  believe marriage should be what we live, breathe and die for, your partner should be your priority, m arriage is sacred and s ometimes we need to put in a little more effort, work a little harder and find a positive even when things are so dire and be willing to work at it. M arriage is more valuable than money, marriage is mor...

           In life most of us start off badly, we make mistakes, we do things or say things to people that we regret, we do things to ourselves that we regret and most of us end up going in a direction we know is  harmful to us. But I believe these times teach us to grow, become stronger, succeed, move forward, trust that God is for us and that God has a purpose for all we endure in life and sometimes we just need to recognise and see the truth of things. Although we start off badly, in Christ we can start again, we can start anew, our past is erased. We learn from starting off badly and aim to live it right second time round and when we are joined with Jesus, we can live our lives right.

                                           Our bodies are temples of the Lord and we must care for our bodies, we must nourish our bodies with goodness and to intentionally harm our bodies in any way is a bad idea.  To intentionally harm our bodies or scar our bodies is a bad idea, to intentionally starve our bodies or become unhealthily overweight is a bad idea and to intentionally harm our bodies with poisonous drink and drugs is a bad idea.  Jesus lives in all of us, this we must understand, he is our body, our soul, everything, everything we do to our bodies we do to Christ. Every corrupt thought, we wound Christ with it. Every bad word said, every sinful reaction we poison our saviour with it, therefore we must love our bodies as we love Jesus.

'your travelling but at the same time you haven't left home' This quote is from Paulo Coelho's book Aleph  and it is a quote that makes me think about how safe and confident I feel when I have my mum by my side and when she's not there, I'm lost, I'm like a deer in the headlights and can't talk to people or do things by myself. My mum is my comfort blanket. I  so desperately want to be grown up and independent but to me, to be grown up doesn't mean having a job or a house and paying bills, to be grown up to me means feeling confident in myself, being able to speak to people with wisdom and authority in my voice to get what I want. To be grown up means having an opinion and being heard, it means standing up for myself.   All the things I feel I lack and struggle to accomplish. But I realise this and I see that I need to be brave and be more independent if I'm ever going to move on with my life, achieve all the things I hope to achieve ...

               So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call. May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do.  2 Thessalonians 1:11 At the moment I am reading a book called Alter Ego by Craig Groeschel and the study guide that goes with it really helps me to look into myself and see myself in an honest light.  I am motivated by my emotions, negative emotions at that eg: fear, anxiety, low self esteem and lack of confidence in my abilities to be me.  It's so difficult for me to try to relate to people, talk to people, open up and feel at ease with people, putting myself out there to be judged and criticised and exposed.   I often wonder what life must be like for a monk or a nun, what must life be like if you didn't have to force yourself to speak to people, if you weren't materialistic in the slightest, if you were living your life exactly...

                                           In today's society we have become excessive. Some of us drink excessively to the point we pass out and don't know what we're doing, some of us smoke and take excessive amounts of drugs. Some of us spend an excessive amount of money on clothes and on looking good. Some of us eat an excessive amount of food that will cause major health problems and eventually kill us. Some of us have multiple sexual partners and none of us realise the damage were doing to ourselves until it's too late, excess is ruining us.  I feel that our excessiveness is symbolic to how empty we feel sometimes, it highlights a deeper issue within us that we are trying to deny or hide and really we are just trying to fill a void in our lives by covering up how lonely and unhappy and how insignificant we sometimes feel.  I think it is important to face these is...

          Sometimes we think the Lord will never bless us. We have lost hope, have given up, are stuck in a rut and can't or won't move forward and given up even trying. Some of us give up on our relationships, give up trying to make things right, give up on having a better life.  We all have dark days, days when we just can't seem to get anything right, we all suffer from broken hearts, loss, go through some really difficult times in our lives but it's important to struggle on and fight, to never crumble but to be strong and remain in christ. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel.    We may choose not to notice that God is blessing our lives because it's easier to live like there is no hope, it's easier to put the blame onto others, blame society for our failings so that we don't have to  look to ourselves to see how bad things are. We choose to deny the good things, we choose to ignore the positives, we choose to be blind to Gods...