Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs

God’s word says that “love keeps no records of wrongs”. “An offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city, and disputes are like the barred gates of a citadel.” Proverbs 18:19 God understands the power of harbored pain in our minds.  I’ve always struggled with the amazing gift or power of the brain to…

Grilling Tips

Baking potatoes: After washing the spud, coat either the potato or the foil with a bit of olive oil. Take a fork and stick into the potato a few times. Pick your favorite seasoning or herb to shake generously onto the oiled part of the spud or foil.  We like rosemary, dill, salt & pepper, and…

Establishing Our Footsteps in TRUTH

There is a movie series entitled Love Come’s Softly by Janette Oke. For Christmas one year, we purchased the DVD set that is based on her books.  I think we’ve watched each DVD at least ten times or more.  There is one scene in which a family, who is living out west, has no local church…

Change

If you always think what you’ve always thought, then you will always feel what you’ve always felt. If you always feel what you’ve always felt, then you will always do what you’ve always done. If you always do what you’ve always done, then you will always get what you’ve always gotten. If you always get…

His beauty soothes my soul

Last night my 15-year-old asked me to look out the window at the sun shining through the rain that was falling.  It was light enough to capture the sunset in our backyard. It looked like glowing streamers from heaven. I could only capture the sound on the video below! Some things are too beautiful to…

Living Spirit Massage and Holistic Health “Encouraging Healthy Lifestyles”

Living Spirit Massage and Holistic Health “Encouraging Healthy Lifestyles” 3323-B S.Crater Road Petersburg, VA 23805 804-732-2570 http://www.livingspirit.abmp.com http://www.facebook.com/livingspiritmassage   Living Spirit Massage is owned by Charlene Belangia. Graduate of American Spirit Institute of Massage, National and State of Virginia (Board of Nursing) Certification, Certified Medical Massage Practitioner.  Degrees in Naturopathy, Herbal Health and Nutritional Counseling from Trinity School…

FREE TO DANCE AND SING!

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17 Today in worship we heard a beautiful testimony from a man who struggled with addiction, suicidal tendencies, and childhood trauma.  He found freedom in Christ and was baptized today.  He wept.  He went into the…

Are you a Dixie cup?

Imagine your soul has the potential to choose the capacity of a Dixie cup or a Cistern, or better yet–THE GRAND CANYON! When you wake up and face the day do you open your heart to receive the amazing love of God by offering a Dixie Cup? This visual inspired me. I may feel that…

Warts and All…

Genesis 2:25 The man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. God originally created a man and woman to become one flesh, totally open to each other physically, spiritually, and emotionally. In this perfect union no sin existed. Once sin came into the world, the enemy has perverted and twisted all things…