Wow, it has been a long time since I have sat down to blog about anything, especially my art and what Christ is doing in my life. Well, get ready for an update because there is a lot going on. Mostly with myself, spiritually, but with Eph210ArtStudio as well.

As many of you know, May 2021 I had surgery on my right knee that required 5 month recovery. The first six weeks I was on crutches and couldn’t put any weight on my right leg. Two of those weeks I worked as my school district was still in session through June 18th due to starting late because of Covid-19. The rest of the 6 weeks, I spent with my family while my husband was at work. Through this time, I had to learn to let others help me and not to try to do everything on my own. This is a lesson God has had to teach me over and over and over and somehow I just keep forgetting this lesson. I have always been someone to take charge and just do things if they aren’t getting done. I am a people pleaser and I have a hard time trusting others when they say they will get things done in a timely manner. I have gotten better with this and the things I had to work through my surgery is big reason why. By the end of July, I was allowed to start walking and by November 22nd 2021, I was released by my doctor to do whatever I wanted to do. This meant I could go back to boxing!! Which, if you know me, I absolutely love!

In October 2021, I attended my first Third Thursday at Create Arlington since before my surgery. The last thing I had attended before the surgery was West Main Festival. (Coming May 14th 2022!! Stay tuned!) This Third Thursday was fantastic for me. It was here that I realized I could make more than just paintings on canvas. I had started making pouring paint coasters ($5) and pouring paint jewelry ($5-$12).

I sold several things and made a small profit for the amount I had spent on supplies. I was so excited and figured I could have made even more during November and December Third Thursdays because of people looking for Christmas presents. However, that was not meant to be.

Starting in November, I started really struggling with my depression. I had honestly been struggling since August but had managed to push through and still do other things. Earlier I stated that my school district had not gotten out until mid-June due to a late start to the school year and I was recovering from knee surgery during the summer. However, 2021-2022 school year started on time with teachers returning the second week in August. Everything boils down to, I really only had 1 week of summer where I could do what I wanted and rest. Needless to say, when we started back, I was still burned out from the last school year. However, I kept pushing forward. I worked on my art and took a mental health day here and there when it was needed. Then in October, did the Third Thursday and everything was great. Until it wasn’t.

November hit like a ton of bricks and that ton of bricks stayed on top of me until January. I was so caught up in my depression that I was just exhausted all the time. I would go to work to teach and prepare for the next day and would plan to work on something art related when I got home but by the time I did, I just fell asleep on the couch. I felt so depressed and so alone during this time that I didn’t know if I could ever climb out. Not many people know the details of what I went through or how much I hated how I felt. I just didn’t think I could change my situation or that my situation would never change. Most days I wanted to stay in bed with the covers pulled over my head and hide from the world. And some days I did. Others, I fought through the depression and anger, and went to work anyway. These days I found myself being more irritable that most and had to fight not to snap at anyone who needed something from me. I was running on empty and had nothing left to give.

I needed change.

I needed something to be different.

I needed strength to get through the day.,

I needed to rely on God for everything.

At the end of December, my husband had had his knee scoped so we spent the holidays between my parents and his so I could have help taking care of him. I am so grateful for this because it was during this time that I was able to get the rest I desperately needed and was able to come to a place where I realized I had been trying to do everything on my own.

10 My God in his steadfast love will meet me; God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.

Psalm 59:10

In this life, when we try to do everything on our own, we get overwhelmed, angry, depressed, and just feel hopeless. I kept asking God for immediate change and what I was really asking was for Him to change my job situation. However, that is not what He had is mind. My job situation remains the same but my anxiety and depression are for the most part gone.

How?

God showed me to change what I can control and rely on Him for everything. Beginning of 2022, my husband and I changed our diet as we got back on the Daniel Plan and I went back to boxing 2 times each week. (I’ve gone down a pant size since then! ) I also changed my quiet time. I wasn’t having one before because I didn’t see the point. I wasn’t having one before because I was so caught up in myself and my situation that I couldn’t see the hope that Christ has for me. I started a reading plan that will take me through the Bible in 49 weeks this year. I listen to it each day with some days just listening to the scriptures as I drive to or from work and others sitting down with my journal and writing what I notice about God in His word. Doing these things has changed my attitude completely. My job is still hard. I am still burned out and can’t wait for summer but I no longer am seeking immediate change. I take it day by day and rely on Him.

Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.

Isaiah 50:10

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 4:16

I say relying on God like it is the easiest thing in the world but some days it is a struggle. It is a decision I make each and every day to give my worries, my fears, my burn out to God and let Him carry if for me. I choose to walk with Him each day and rely on His understanding and not mine. (Proverbs 3:4-6) Days are still hard but even the hardest days are so much easier with him than without!

Do you struggle like I did? (and still do at times?) I pray you have someone you can talk to. I pray that you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. I pray over those who may read this and pray that God will grant them a sense of peace and that they will trust Him with their lives. I pray for any situation that you may be facing and that God will show you His power and move in your life in a way that you can only give God the glory for.

Until Next time,

God Bless.

I love doing art. It is my therapy. When I am not creating something, or haven’t created something for a long period of time, depression and anxiety set in. When it sets in like this, sometimes it is hard to pull myself out of it in order to start creating again. This happened last week when I was working on some pouring paint experiments. One day, I was extremely depressed, seemingly for no reason at all, which just made things worse, in my mind. I couldn’t bring myself to do anything except lay on the couch and watch tv or scroll on Facebook. My heart was just so heavy. So I did nothing.

The next day was better and I had the energy to get into creating something so I continued my experimentation with pouring paint. Up to this point, I have already dabbled a little with pouring paints with my mom. During Christmas vacation, she and I would go to the store and get everything we needed: the paint, canvas, cups, something to hold to canvas up. Last year I used a wine bottle to pour the paint on. It worked. So every so often, usually when I don’t have much else to inspire me, I play around with pouring paint.

The hardest thing about pouring paint, is knowing what colors to choose to begin with. Choose the wrong ones, and the piece can come out dull and dark when you were really going for bright and vibrant. This is frustrating at times but as I play around with color theory, I think I’ll get the hang of it. The thing I love the most about pouring paint as how the colors mix and if you choose the right ones, the results can be amazing.

I love watching the paint fall from side to side of the canvas as I move it around, The colors interact with one another as they elegantly move on the canvas, almost as if they are dancing. Watching it can almost be hypnotizing. It is also messy as the paint pours off the canvas, which is where gloves come in handy. While the gloves protect your skin, the gloves themselves become messy and if you don’t change the gloves out before moving to a different canvas, that canvas will become messy before you have even started. As I work on a pouring paint canvas, moving my messy gloved hands from one side of the back of the canvas to the other, I leave messy paint fingerprints all over the backside of the canvas.

It didn’t hit me until I saw the back of the pouring paint canvas as my husband was attaching the picture wiring. For a split second I thought, “I should paint the back so it doesn’t look so messy.” Then it hit me. People only pay attention to what is on the front of the canvas; to the point an artist is wanting to make.

No one sees the back of the canvas.

No one pays attention to the back of the canvas.

Society tells us to not show “the back of the canvas” to anyone. This is where all of our broken pieces are. Where our hurt and pain live. Where our depression and anxiety try to choke out any happiness that we may have been feeling. If we so much as show that to the rest of the world, we are called crazy or lazy or other terms because people do not understand what we have been through or how we feel.

So we keep hiding the back of our canvas in hopes that we never get hurt again.

Yet there is One who sees the back of the canvas.

The Artist.

The One who created everything in the first place.

 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.  The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

Psalm 95:4-5

This is what God the LORD says— the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it.

Isaiah 42:5

God is the one who see the mess that happened there and He says that it is beautiful. He knows exactly what each messy finger was doing during the creation of the art work. He knows of your pain, hurt, depression, anxiety and whatever else you have been hiding from others for all these years.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Isaiah 29:11

Just because you went through something or are going through something, does not mean you were going through it alone. He is walking with you ever step of the way and when He isn’t walking with you, He is carrying you in His arms as He walks through it for you.

The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley ,I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Psalm 23

I love Psalm 23. It gives me such peace knowing that no matter what I walk though, God is with me no matter what. He is there in the times of peace, even though I tend to forget that, and He is there in the times of struggle.

He is there. You just have to let him in.

I pray that you show Christ the back of your canvas and give it to Him. Let him walk with you and carry you as you cling to Him, the creator of the Universe. Who knew the world needed you. He created you for a reason and for a purpose. Not just for the good times on the front of the canvas, but for the messy times too. It is the mess on the back of the canvas that makes the beautiful art work possible. The things that we go through are all there for a reason and make the good times that much better and make our relationship with Him, that much stronger.

I pray that you know Him as I do.

I pray that you have someone in your life who can be the light of Christ to you if you do not know Him yet.

Until Next time,

God Bless.

A year or so ago, I had an idea to create something more practical with my art. Something that people could not only have in their homes because it was pretty but because it was functional as well. The idea was to create lamps from any type of bottles. My thought was to decorate these bottles in different styles and put them together with lights, wiring and lampshades.

Only one problem: I had no idea how to do it or where to get started

I knew I could have created the lamps by cutting a hole in the side of the lamp, towards the bottom and wire it through the bottle, but I didn’t and still don’t, have the tools that would require nor the desire to drill through glass.

So I sat on the idea for awhile and eventually forgot about it until one day, I was hanging out with my best friend and came across a how to video on facebook. This video was giving tips on how to make different things, one of which was the bottle lamps. Instantly I got excited. I finally had a visual for what I needed to create the bottle lamps once I was done painting the shade and the bottle. All I needed was a bottle lamp kit (which included things like the wiring, the bulb socket, a harp and various bolts to hold everything together), the bottle, lamp shade and electrical tape to hold everything in place. Right away I started working on locating everything I needed to turn my idea into a reality.

Once I located everything and had actually acquired everything, it was time to get to work. I went to Create Arlington in order to put things together. The image below is the set up I had to figure out the electrical part of the process. I wanted to understand how everything worked before actually painting the bottles and lamp shades because if I couldn’t get the electrical part to work, then there was no need to move forward. Let’s just say it took a few times. However, eventually I got it! I was so happy and excited once I figured it out. I knew I had the hardest part behind me and I could move forward.

The next step was working on the bottles. I had an idea to try pouring paint on the bottles and seeing how that would turn own. Over Christmas break, my mama and I played around with pouring paint and the bottle in the image above is the result. The second bottle that I attempted the pouring paint with is below.

The Ocean pouring paint and the Christmas pouring paint bottle, however did not survive the trip home from Create Arlington. I thought they were both dry enough when I headed home, however that was not the case. Once I got the bottles home, they both had been ruined. The Ocean pouring paint had black and brown paint all over it and the Christmas pouring paint bottle had white and blue everywhere. I had just put resin on the Christmas bottle and because of that, I could not salvage it. The blue and white paint had stuck to the resin and it was impossible to remove. The Ocean pouring paint bottle, I was able to salvage. This one had partially dried and I was able to get most of the unwanted paint off and do the pouring paint a second time. However, I knew it would not be the same.

As disappointed as I was that two of my creations had been messed up, I started again. I did the pouring paint on the Ocean bottle for the second time and started working on another bottle to replace the one I had to toss. The result of the second pouring paint is below.

Once I had gotten the pouring paint where I wanted it and liked it, I painted the white part of the waves and finished painting the water on the bottle along the neck. Then I had to let it dry and worked on another lamp and lamp shade.

One of the bottles I had worked on that night things got messed up was an square olive oil bottle. I quickly found out that the square shape of the bottle did not allow for the same technique of pouring paint. And while it was among the bottles that had been messed up, it actually turned out to be better. I was actually able to paint each side of the Olive Oil bottle to look like a tree trunk. My goal was to create a lamp shade to match that looked like Cherry blossoms. Once I had the bottle done, I was able to work on the lampshade.

With the lampshade done, it was time to put everything together for the Cherry Tree. After the picture below was taken, I went back and painted the electrical tape to match the style of the tree trunk. This lamp is on display at Create Arlington and is selling for $50.

With the first one completed I started to work on the lampshade for the Ocean lamp bottle. I decided that the lampshade for the second bottle would be the beach with the shore line. I also did pouring paint on this lampshade as it was the right shape and texture for it.

First I did the beach colors with brown, silver and yellow pouring paint. After a day or two of drying I was able to come back and do the different tones of blue for the shore lines. I am still working on this one. The next step is to add the white parts of the waves and add texture of the sand. Once the lampshade is completed, it will be time to put everything together. The Ocean bottle lamp will be selling for $75 and I hope to have it at the next Third Thursday on February 18th.

I am really excited about what God has inspired me to do and create. I love that He has given me the ability to create things just as He has created me.

I pray for you this week.

Until next time,

God Bless.

This week I was going to talk about the lamps I have been creating and include images, however something else was placed on my heart and mind. This week, for the first time in a long time, I experienced artist’s block. Basically writer’s block but applied to my art. My creative part of my brain seemed to be just turned off.

For the schedule that I have set up, Mondays are my creative days. It is the day of the week that I set aside to work on lamps, or paintings or drawings or digital art or whatever else is coming to mind. Yet, this past Monday, I couldn’t think of anything I wanted to create. True, I do have a lamp that needs to be finished and a large scale painting that needs some attention. Yet, none of those things seemed to appeal to me to work on. It felt like I had lost my desire to work on current projects and I couldn’t think of anything new to create. I started to wonder why and was concerned that I might be loosing my creative ability.

Then it hit me: I have stopped spending time with God or worshiping Him regularly.

See my inspiration for everything I do, even the landscape type paintings, comes from God. It is the time that I spend with Him that allows the Holy Spirit to come into my heart and mind and provide me with images to go with the scripture I am reading or the song I am listening to. Several of my paintings are directly from songs I was listening to in Worship at my church on a Sunday morning. Listening isn’t the right word because I was more than listening. I was lost in these songs worshiping my Creator. It is in that intense worship where I am inspired. I would spend time reading my Bible and studying God’s word a few days each week and on the days I didn’t read, I drew, or just sat quietly and listened to what God had to say to me through song or silence.

I haven’t done that in a long time and to be honest, I cant remember the last time I did so consistently. With everything that has been going on from teaching during a pandemic, to trying to update my business, to looking for a new place to live, to trying to have some sort of social life and spends time with my husband, I feel like there isn’t enough time in the day. Or when i do schedule time to spend with God, it is at 5am and when the time comes, I am nice and cozy in my bed and don’t want to wake up. If I try to schedule it for after work, by the time I get off, I am so tired that all I want to do is veg or go to sleep. These are all excuses but God is so much more important than any of these excuses.

When I have been in tune with God and spending time with Him regularly, everything else seems to fade away. The problems I am facing, while they are still there, pale in comparison to the glory of my Heavenly Father. Yet I forget that. There is a song that just came out by Crowder called Good God Almighty and in it there is a line that says, “I get amnesia.” That is so true. We go through things that God uses to teach us something and then once we are through it and are in a good time, we forget what God had done for us and forget how much we need him. This really resonated with my today.

I need God.

I need him more than anything! Things may be hard but life seems so much harder without Him. I don’t just need to spend time with Him to regain my inspiration. I need to spend time with Him to continue my relationship with Him and to grow closer to Him. Wednesday of this week, I felt alone. I felt more alone than I have in a while. It was one of those things that I could have felt alone in a whole stadium of people. Life can be lonely, especially when we get stuck in our heads. I know that is true for me. I get lost in what I am thinking about and what I need to do that day or the next or where my husband and I are going to live next. Once I get lost in my thoughts, it is hard to focus on anything else. I start to worry, my anxiety grows and eventually I feel lost and alone. It feels as if no one in the whole world understands what I am going through. But that is so far from the truth.

God knows.

One of my favorite songs is “God Only Know” by For King And Country. At the end of the first verse, the song talks about how one feels as if no one can see what you are going through and that no one could possibly love you because of what you have done. The course speaks directly to that.

God only knows what you’ve been through

God only knows what they say about you

God only knows how it’s killing you

But there’s a kind of love that God only knows

God only knows what you’ve been through

God only knows what they say about you

But God only knows the real you

‘Cause there’s a kind of love that God only knows

“God only knows” by For King and Country

God sees you. He knows what you have been through. He knows the pain and hurt you feel from past experiences. He sees who you really are when you try to hide it from everyone else. He sees me when I do this and I try to hide how I am really feeling a lot. He knows who I am and loves me anyway. He sees me in my loneliness and wants to love me through it. He sees me in my anxiety and embraces me so I can continue forward. The same is true for you.

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you;

He will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 55:22

Whenever you feel alone or depressed or burdened, go to God. I am speaking to myself as well. I always feel so much better and so much lighter when I talk to God and give everything to Him. Worrying and being anxious of anything does not help or add anything to our lives.

Therefore do do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will ve anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6:34

Not being anxious is so difficult and is something I struggle with, especially when I am overwhelmed. However, I must remind myself that God is large and in charge and He will provide for me.

I share all of this in hopes that what I go through will resonate with someone and God will minister to someone else. Writing this has helped me a lot with how I have felt this week.

I pray for you this week.

I pray for myself and that I reconnect with God and continue to grow in Him.

Until next time,

God bless.

What a wild ride 2020 was. It was tough and hard and not a pleasant in a lot of ways. Never in a million years did I think I would ever live through a pandemic. One that is still going on and will for who knows how long.

As 2020 came to a close, I heard so many people saying that we just needed to make it to 2021 and everything would be alright. It seemed to be a mind set that 2021 would fix all of the world’s problems and we would be free from this pandemic. Yet, it’s 2021 and the pandemic is still.

I feel that in a lot of ways, 2020 sucked the hope out of all of us in one way or another. We kept hoping that the pandemic would be gone and life would get back to normal around May or June. The same thought came around September but as each month passed and the pandemic still continued, and people still lost jobs, had to work from home or were quarantined, life seemed like it would never return to normal. It still doesn’t in a lot of ways.

While some put their hope in the pandemic ending quickly, others put their hope in the Presidential Election for they believed that a change in government would bring about the hope and the peace that everyone is seeking. So many have placed their faith in the government, expecting to be saved from their financial situation or the pandemic.

Then, on January 6th 2021, ciaos broke out at the Capitol. That was a sight I never though I would have seen. So many people, so angry, causing destruction in our nation’s Capitol. I watched the news, just like most people I am sure that day in disbelief. As I watched, my heart broke for our nation. For everyone involved at the Capitol that day. Our nation is so angry and distrusting of anyone who does not agree with them. My heart broke because these people had placed their hope for a better life in President Trump being reelected. Much like other people had placed their hope in President-Elect Biden being elected.

However, their hope is misplaced.

The government is formed of men and women who are human and sinful, just like the rest of us. As humans, we are not able to save ourselves. President Trump and President-Elect Biden are both only human and being human, they will let people down. They will disappoint people in what they do or not do and they will fall short of the Glory of God.

“²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”

Romans 3:23

This is not to say that our situation is hopeless. No matter what you situation, there is always hope. Our hope is Jesus Christ.

In times of trouble and when all seems to be lost, we should turn our eyes, our hope to God. So many times, David cried out to God because he was being chased by Saul who wanted him dead. Instead of completely giving up hope, he called on God for strength.

“In my distress I called upon the Lord,

Yes, I cried to my God;

And from His temple He heard my voice,

And my cry for help came into His ears”

2 Samuel22:7 Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Face-Of-God

David knew where his strength came from. He knew it did not come from himself but rather from the God that loved him and protected him against his enemies. When things went wrong, he called on God for help. He placed his hope in God, even though he could not see Him.

Much like David, we are called to do the same. We should be placing our faith in a God who loves us and wants to have a relationship with us rather than fellow men who are sinners, just like you and me.

Hope is defined as “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.” or “a feeling of trust.” When our hope is misplaced, we are often let down and disappointed. However, God will never let you down. He will always be there and walking with your and working in your life. When your trust, your hope is placed in Christ, you can not go wrong.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Romans 15:13

Does this mean that as Christians, we should not listen to what the government tells us or obey the laws? No, not at all. Christ even stated, ‘“Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” ²² When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away.”– Matthew 22:21-22.

We find in Romans 13:1, Paul speaks on government authority as well.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Romans 13:1

So God has placed people in authority, for whatever reason and because of that, we are to follow the law. The exception is if the government is going against the law of God. However, following the law of man does not mean that is where my hope is.

My hope for a better tomorrow, for a better life, for things to be better in 2021, is in Jesus. He is the only one who can heal our world of this Pandemic, either by supernatural means or medical means. He is the only one who can heal our country and the hearts of all Americans of this anger and distrust. He is the one who can save. If only you believe.

Do you believe?

I pray that you do.

If you don’t, I pray someone in your life will speak the Truth and share Christ with you. He loves you and died for you so that you would not have to. So that you could have everlasting life with Him.

Will you trust him?

Will you put your Hope in Him?

I pray the God of Hope gives you joy and peace that can only come from Him.

Until Next time,

God Bless.

For me, this will be the school year that I said goodbye to my students for Spring Break and we never came back. School has officially been closed until next school year with teaching going online. Yet it’s not the same. I miss being in my classroom. I miss my students and I miss teaching.

Being at home for so long has had its ups and downs. For awhile, it felt like mostly downs. I was trying to figure out how to balance and full and part time job during the week and still manage to get stuff done around the house. I wish I could say that everything was perfect and fine during this whole quarantine situation but I would be lying. I have felt angry, sad, anxious and depressed on and off through out this whole ordeal. I miss the life I had, the people I saw and met with and the places I got to go.

Then I started focusing on just taking things one day at a time. I started getting into God’s word more and praying more. With each passing week, things would seem to get a little better. I was able to manage my schedule a little bit more. I was able to sleep a little bit better and longer than I had previously. Things seemed to be looking up. So what changed?

Perspective.

The situation is still hard and has not changed but my mindset has. I am more focused on God and taking things one day at a time than I was before. Then this week, I cam across a passage in the book of Psalms that really stuck with me.

I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.”

Psalm 34:4

This verse seemed to just jump out at me. This is what I was wanting to do and what I have started to do now. I realized I needed God and could not do anything on my own. The last month I had been trying to do everything while depending on my own strength and it was exhausting and getting me no where. It was draining and putting more stress on me and my husband. God spoke to me through this verse. I needed Him. I need him every day.

I did some research on Psalm 34 and realized it is one of the Psalms that David wrote while Saul was trying to kill him. 1 Samuel 21 and 22 talk about this event. It was while he was hiding in a cave that he wrote Psalm 34. The first verse of Psalm 34 starts off “I will bells the Lord at all times, his praise shall continually be in my mouth.” It amazes me that while he is being chased and sitting in a cave, David said he will always praise God, no matter what. He is called a man after God’s own heart for a reason.

Sometimes, we get into hard situations and it is easy to allow our situation to over take us. It is easy to ask God “Why?” and shake our fists at him in anger. It is easy to fall into a depression and feel as if we can not get out. The hard thing is to continue to praise God and thank Him for what He is doing. Yet when we are able to bring ourselves to the point where can praise God for what He is doing or has done, it tends to lift spirits. I know from personal experience that praying for someone or helping someone in some way, helps me get out of my head and changes my perspective.

Not only does praise God change things but talking to Him about our fears. When we pray to God, tell him what is going on and honestly seek after Him, he takes our fears away. He grants us peace that we need to get through the day. I am finding more and more that I need His peace each day.

He did it for David.

He can do it for us to.

We are surrounded by things that cause us to fear. The Pandemic, the isolation, the media, the fear that this will never end or what if this is the end? Yet worrying about all of these things does nothing for us.

Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his lifespan?

Matthew 6:26-27

Worrying won’t stop things from being hard or change how things are right now. Trusting in Jesus and giving Him all of your fears and worries can change your perspective and how you live.

This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

Joshua 1:9

Cast your fears to Him today. He can handle them. There is nothing that God can not handle. He loves you and He will see us through. He saw David through his hard time. God will do the same for us. We have to trust Him.

Do you know Christ? Do you know Him as your Lord and Savior?

I pray that you do. I pray that you trust Him and will seek him this week. If you don’t I pray that God places someone in your life who can personally talk to you and lead you to Christ. God loves you so much that He sent Jesus, His only son, to die on the cross, for you, so that you would not have to die. He did this so you could be with Him in Heaven one day.

I pray you come to know Him as I do.

Until Next time,

God Bless.