You Gotta Believe

Believe, have you ever thought of the true meaning of the word believe? Believe: to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully. To believe you have to have some sense of faith. When you believe you can do something other people will believe in you too. Dean McNamee is fighting cancer the doctors told him it was “incurable” but he believed that he could fight it and look at him now the mass in his right lung has been reduced by 75%, there is no sign of cancer in his lymph node, and his liver if functioning in normal range. Most people in this town had an incredible amount of faith in him and God, that he could fight this disease. If Dean would have gave up and didn’t believe it was possible to fight this who knows where he would be? Isn’t life about believing, you believe that you can try new thing you believe you can be successful.  You believe in love fate destiny, you can’t see love you just have to believe that it is there.  Believing in something is so incredibly powerful. I believe in God, have I ever met him? No I haven’t but I believe I will someday. I believe he created us and that when we die if we believe in him we will go to heaven.  When you are young you believe in the Easter bunny and Santa, then as you grow older you find out there real and in some cases you lose your Christmas spirit, but was Christmas really about Santa? No it is about God no matter how old you are, you’re never told to believe in God. "And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him." Hebrews 11:6 (NLT) With God anything is possible but you gotta believe and he will show you that he is real. Have a blessed week, and remember God is walking by your side J

Right place at the RIGHT time...

            Do you ever feel like your put on this earth for a reason?!?! Even if it was for something as simple as making someone smile, or something as extravagant as saving a life. One night I was having a heart to heart with my god father and he said you know Hope sometimes I wonder if I was out on this earth for you. He told me a story about how he use to play baseball and he was really good and how that was something he wanted to do when he grew up, but one day his coach decided to cut all juniors and seniors so they could make a championship team, well that devastated him but he moved on and became a police officer in Holbrook Arizona and started the life teen program and that’s how he met me and became my godfather, and has helped me along, my spiritual journey. “God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.” You may sometime feel You have no place in this world like you have no calling, and everyone has found theirs but your still searching. You may go through painful experiences so that you can become stronger or share you experience with others and maybe help them find their way. I often feel as if I can’t find my way or my calling but I know that it will come with time I will find out why I am placed on this earth. It just takes time and patience.  I do believe that we are all placed on this earth for a reason some may find the reason early in life some it may take longer, but with God anything is possible. Have a blessed week and if you have found your calling please comment I would love to hear it JJust remember “You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”

                God does not make mistakes. He made each and every one of us exactly how he wanted us. He gave some of blonde hair some brunette, put our eyes a certain length away from our nose, gave some of us biggo clown feet and some of us little baby feet. Hmmmm what I’m trying to say is God knew exactly what he was doing when he created you. Some people say special needs children are from something the mother did during her pregnancy but honestly I believe that God did it on purpose not to hurt the child but because he knew they could handle it. God would never confront you with something you could not handle. Special needs children are probably some of the strongest people in the world. Think about it, things you do every morning are ten times harder for them. For my uncle Scotty to talk it takes everything he has, he if like 50 so imagine how strong he was to have fought this disability for 50 years. That takes a hell of a person. He is also one of the most confident people I know. So why are there so many “normal” people feeling so unconfident? If God doesn’t make mistakes you should have any reason to feel self-confident, he made you beautiful he made you strong so never forget that. So I encourage all my follower to walk with your head held INCREDIBLY high cause YOU are a creation of God and remember he makes NO mistakes J Have a blessed week.

One sunny afternoon Love suggested a game of Hide-n-seek. Anxious not knowing what Love was talking about blurted out “how do you play,” Love said I will cover my eyes and count to 1000 while I am counting all of you hide. Once I get to 1000 I will come find you. Sad wipes her tears showing that she would love to play, excited jumps up and down showing she would also love to play. So love   starts to count one, two, three… lazy was the very first one to hide falling behind the first rock he seen. Faith and Hope flew to hide upon the clouds, courage climbed to highest part of the highest peak, passion hid in the depths of the ocean. Anger and greed went to the bottom of a volcano because they thought love would never look in place like that. Loves says 999 but desire still hasn’t found a spot yet. He runs frantically trying to find a spot he hides on the petals of a rose bush. 1000 yells love and off she goes searching for all of her friends. She hears Faith and Hope giggling on the cloud and she finds them she walks to the closes rock knowing lazy wouldn’t have gone that far.  She eventually finds everyone but desire. Love searches and searches and stops right in front of the roses bush falls to her knees crying and says oh Desire give me a hint I have searched everywhere for you and I still can’t find you. Desire jumps off the peddle wraps love in his arms and says I was right in front of you the whole time. That was the fable I wrote for Mrs. Caffeys class, well after I wrote it, it made me think is love really blind? I came to the conclusion why indeed it is blind. I have known this guy for quite some time and I dated him before but it never really meant anything. Well I started talking to him again and I don’t know what took me so long to realize how UHMAEZING he is. He is the type of guy where you go to his house and he will go outside to warm your car before you leave, the type of guy who brings you lunch, knows just what to say when your world has come crashing down. It took me quite some time to realize that the guy I been looking for was right there in front of me the whole time just like desire was  for love in my fable.  I believe God blinds love to make it much more special once we do find it.