Bringing the Cliche to Life

   Today is a beautiful day.  The heat of summer is slowly starting to drift away ushering in the beauty and coolness of fall.  The breeze is dancing through my open windows welcoming in the day, bringing with it the wonder of what this day will bring.  Will it be a good one?  Will I feel like I accomplished something?  Will have an opportunity to care for someone well?  Will someone care for me? 
    Right now there is a lot of drama.  A lot of discontentment and frustration swirling around the world in which I live.  My friends and family are dealing with heavy burdens and I am dealing with my own.  Around each corner you think there will be relief but there just seems to be something else that swoops in with the hope of stealing your joy.  With the hope of knocking you down with the one two punch that jealousy or loneliness can bring. 
    I cant speak to every problem or struggle or frustration but I believe that we have a choice in it all.  A choice to be bitter or a choice to move forward in the hope and knowledge that God has a plan.  A perfect plan that is designed for our good.  That even though right now my body aches all over, my heart is broken in so many ways, and I feel like I can’t take another step.  I have to make a choice today….right now…..will I choose to overcome?  Will I choose to stand up tall with the knowledge that no matter what I might feel about myself , or what others might think or say, the truest thing is what God says about me?  That I am loved.  That I am a new creation. That I am free.  That I am redeemed.  That I am a joint heir to the throne.  That he will provide for my needs.
   These all sounds like cliché churchy thoughts, and maybe they are, but I do believe that they are truth.  How we apply them to our lives is what makes them real. It takes the cliché out and makes it alive.  Makes it beautiful.  Imagine if we all did that and claimed truth over our lives how much more content we would be.  How much grace we would show one another.  How much love we could share. 
   So, today, I will step forward with this little blog.  Claiming the perfect love of a heavenly Father who cares about me and knows me.  Realizing that although I might not get everything I want I will have everything I need supplied by the creator of it all.  I will love with reckless abandon because life is short and although there is risk involved I would rather be known as someone who cared for people well.  As someone who showed the love of Jesus in a way that was real and authentic.  That is my challenge to myself and all of us.  You are loved! You are important!  And you are Needed! Tell the people you care about that today.  I promise you they need it just as much as you do.