Smashing and firmly convicted!

This post from the HIM site really motivated me to deepen my relationship with the essence of the spirit of the lord, the spirit of love, and really "abide by the principles of truth", Gods truth, so that I too can answer those who ask of me with the same conviction and resolution as this girl and with that realize that every day a new and improved conviction and understanding of the spirit of the Lord (love) can be achieved and multiplied through our daily decision to choose to really dive into not what seems or what we "presume" to be the will of God in our lives but that we may have such a deep and thriving relationship with the lord that it enhances our faith and courage and makes us merge with His love to the point that having his mindset, attitudes, and manifesting his love comes not as a conscious effort but second nature and gives us conviction to follow what His will is in our personal lives through our deep relationship with Him so that we may freely flow with His spirit in a way that it makes possible the unique and unprecedented love that God has for each one of us to be manifested in its entirety to us and to those around us.

May we have the honesty and openness to accept and conviction, faith and courage to act on the love that we have freely been given and therefore also freely give according to the need.

Seeing people in a new light

Sometimes our perception of things in our own personal lives centers a little too much on things that are past or an aspect of our personality, mistakes, habits, modus operandi, or idiosyncrisies more than actually taking each day and experience step by step and realize that we never remain the same and are always changing, its usually just our inner focus and perspective that doesnt change and therefore sometimes makes it difficult for us to change. Here is a little something from the Lord that helped me see this in a different light and put skin on what to do. TYJ!

(Jesus:) Have you ever seen the frames in a strip of movie film? Each frame is a still picture, but each picture is very slightly altered from the one before it. The result of all those constant little changes is that as the frames fly past your vision, you see movement taking place: The man is running, or the car is careening down the road.

People and situations are like that piece of film. But when you’re too focused on one frame of their lives from the past, it’s easy to miss the little changes that are always happening. You have to remember to keep the ever-changing frames of how you perceive people and situations rolling through the projector of vision rather than the slide viewer of familiarity. Then you’ll be on the edge of your seat, excited by the action, and cheering them on to the finish line! -- HIM Seeing People in a New Light