proclaim it!!

it's been a year and a half since i wrote anything publicly...i could list a hundred excuses why, mostly busyness.....no, that's not entirely true, for a period of time i didn't feel like i had any "good" news to share, it was a survival mode of getting through each day, wash, rinse,repeat, repeat.

however, that is can be no longer, God keeps giving me a Word to build me, encourage me, wisdom beyond my understanding and He has told me "Proclaim It! Proclaim It!" and i have not. maybe i have in conversations with those close to me but there is something bigger. i'm not looking to reach the masses but i am going to come back here (where there was once masses) and begin again. if nothing else this is just another journal (because the stack of 100's of paper journals isn't enough!) i have to document of my walk with Christ and my walk through this earthly life with my family and friends....you with me? :)

so let me jump right in and give you (and me) something to think about on this cold, icy Friday when we are just a couple handfuls away from celebrating Jesus' birthday....

are you a big gifter? you love piling up the gifts under the tree? i'm not judging, you don't have to answer out loud :) i love shopping and i brave the black thanksgiving/friday crowds for great, limited edition deals. we give our four kiddos each three..yes, just three....Christmas boxes to unwrap that special morning. now are there sometimes more than one item in each, maybe two or three, but we are striving for something bigger here. Jesus got three gifts on the day of His awesome birth and we want to emulate that, but we also don't want the kids obsessed with getting 20 gifts under the tree...i clean their rooms, believe me, they have enough stuff!! i want their sense of getting to be shadowed by their inner desire to give...give of themselves, their time, their resource, their talents and especially their money. we have been so blessed by the provision from the Lord to give much to others in need this season, but it should just start here, in December, with all of us and spread to each month, looking for ways to be the hands and feet of Jesus...there is certainly a depraved indifference in our souls unless we're praying to see with Jesus' eyes and have our hearts broken over the things that break the heart of God.

i posted this video about three years ago on my blog and it still moves my heart as i watch it today, stirring my soul to give even more!! put feet to my words and write another check, write another letter of encouragement, give more of my time...

ALL TO MAKE JESUS' NAME FAMOUS AND BRING OTHERS TO A KNOWLEDGE THAT GOD LOVES YOU!! HE'S CRAZY ABOUT YOU! HE WANTS TO WORK IN YOU AND THROUGH YOU, TRANSFORM YOUR HEART AND SOUL, BRING JOY UNSPEAKABLE!!! 

can you feel my urgency?!!!? we sponsor some children in haiti and i think of them when i watch this and pray that their hearts will be surrendered to Jesus because of our sacrifice....but we can do more...we WILL do more to reach more!

so what will you give? what will you do? will you pray with me that God will move us beyond ourselves for His children, for His Glory?

much love and blessings to you today....i WILL be back tomorrow to write what God gives me, Lord willing :)