Day 5: 40 Day Grace Journey

via Day 5: Seriously? GET RID OF THAT!!

Here it is. I missed yesterday because my husband and I took the saying ” netflix and chill” to a different level and binged watched 24 Legacy ( well, more like 12 Legacy ) and two movies and I still have two episodes left of Queer Eye. Oh my Gosh…that show is so good and I cry most of the episodes. Anyway, so I missed yesterday and truth be told, I’m sure it won’t be the last day I miss. Today’s was a tough one. It’s hard to listen to the Holy Spirit when you see yourself in the wrong light. I find it hard anyway. It’s a new week. Not much on the agenda this week but I sure hope it warms up. It’s been a cold winter and this month we have had so much snow. I’m ready for Spring in a big way. Have a great day friends.

Day 4: 40 Day Grace Journey

via Day 4: Please Sir, I want some more!   

Hi Friends.  Happy Saturday Morning from my house in Canada.  Enjoy your day/night wherever you are and remember that God loves you RIGHT now RIGHT here.

Day 3: 40 Day Grace Journey

via Day 3: Are You Hungry or Thirsty?

Here is Day 3 Friends.  I don’t have much to say.  My morning sucks so far.  I will say that Psalm 42 is one of my favorites and I will come back to read it better later.  Have a great day and try not to let your day get ruined like I do.  UGH……..

 

Day 2: 40 Day Grace Journey

via DAY 2: Who Is Walking With You   

There was no reblog on Day 2 so hopefully the link above will help.  🙂  What a great reminder today was.  Not only a reminder of what I learned in the last 5 years but a reminder of the problem I have with accepting my identity in Christ.  It’s a such a huge thing to learn and “accept.”  I still have a lot of issues from my past to resolve and I think it would be easier for me to do that if I truly believed I was loved by God.  It is part of my prayer in my journal.  The message from Steve McVey was so good too.  I love him and his teachings have been so key in not only my growth but my sanity in some ways.  I pray you will find something that you need out of today’s post and continue to be thankful for the things around you and ask God to show you what you need to see.  Have a beautiful day friends!  I love you!

DAY 1: Rise And Shine!

Day 1 friends, let’s be thankful. I know I so often sit in my weariness and forget to be thankful. I have lots to be thankful but there always seems to be a “but.” I found that today as well. I woke up feeling quite optimistic. That’s pretty uncalled for for me. In my optimism though, I was worried. Worried it would be taken away from me because I don’t know how to hold onto it. I allow others to suck it from me because I always have been like that. I am praying that during this journey, I will be able to find a way to allow that NOT to happen. Anyway, the reflection questions are best to answer in the evening so I will do that in my journal tonight. Have a super duper day friends! It a mild day temperature wise here but the snow is blowing and the roads are horrible and icy. A great day to stay in and be thankful I have a nice warm house to protect me from the elements of the weather. TTFN

A Grace Journey of Learning to Live Loved

Good morning everyone.  Today is a brand new day!!  How about we rejoice, and actually be glad about it!  Today is the day to simply ‘be thankful.’  No better way to start this 40 day journey than being thankful and living in response to all that He has given us.

As you go through day one, respond with ‘thank you’ to all the things you are thankful for, or for the things God brings to your attention. Here is an example: Do you love coffee, in your mind say ‘thank you’ to Jesus as you sip away.  Open your eyes to all the things around you that you are thankful for.  At the end of the day, look back and add up all the new things you recognized today. You will be surprised.

Enjoy the bible verse below, and enjoy the Journey you experience today!

Mike Zenker

View original post 314 more words

Twas the night before…THE JOURNEY

Here it is friends, the night before the journey. I’m very excited and very nervous. I believe more than ever that God led me to this place right this moment. I encourage you to watch the video. Its good and it’s a nice way to see Mike. It is his church sermon. It is about 32 minutes long. I will post again later in the day to share a little more about today’s message and how it affected me. Enjoy and Be blessed!

A Grace Journey of Learning to Live Loved

I’m assuming you have read the past three blogs, or at LEAST the previous one.  if not, go back and read it now before you continue.  If nothing else PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO FIRST. click HERE!!

Next step: It is important to know the purpose for doing this 40 day journey, so I’m providing you with a summary of notes describing how to participate on this journey.

There is no ‘sign up’ button, but rather you can follow on the blog, Twitter, or click ‘like’ on the Grace Walk Canada Facebook page and follow along there.  Whatever you choose, do visit the blog each day to get some ‘encouragement’….

Purpose of the 40 day Journey is:

• Not to get closer to God
• Not to manipulate anything from him through ‘special behavioural changes’
• Not to diet, not to impress anyone, especially God,
• Not to create a new ‘system’ of what I have to do…

View original post 846 more words

It’s Been a Very Long Time!

But I am back and I am going to try something.  I guess it was three years ago now that I started following a new blog at the time called A Grace Journey of Learning to Live Loved.  I had heard of Mike Zenker though Steve McVey and Grace Walk.  He is the head of Grace Walk Canada.  I haven’t gone back and listened or read any of it yet, so I’m not sure if Mike did this series because it was around the Lent season but nonetheless, He started a series called a 40 Day Faith-bit Grace Journey.  I decided tonight while I was lying in bed not being able to sleep that this is what I need to do.  I need to take this journey again and what a great idea for me to share it with you.  I will reblog them daily starting tomorrow.  The first two might be on the same day.  I will try and coincide it with Lent.  I may or may not succeed.  I will also share my thoughts…maybe and I pray that I will be able to do this.  Depression and Anxiety have had a hold on me for so long and stolen so much from me.  I just want it back.  No, I don’t what what I had back, I want more.  The struggle is real friends, but I will do this and as the days go by I will explain to you why it is important for me to do this.  I don’t usually do posts at night and publish them but tonight I will.  It feels nice to type again and maybe through this journey, I can learn to be transparent and actually do some of the writing I so desire to do.  Good night precious friends.  It’s good to be back!