Steadfast …
Life is about choices and also how we deal with those choices. Are you able to forgive yourself for choices you made that weren’t necessarily good ones? Are you able to forgive others for choices they have made that may have hurt you? Do you understand the choices people make are a direct result of where they are on their spiritual journey and often nothing to do with you at all? We cannot own other people’s choices or behaviors. If we do, then we will end up feeling unworthy or hurt because they aren’t treating us the same way we treat them. It’s not that they aren’t capable of treating us with the same respect, Love and kindness it’s just they don’t yet fully know how to do that. What’s the best way for them to learn? By seeing a visual, a true living example of that respect, Love and kindness. Your Heart then shines as a bright Light in a dark land. A Light they will be drawn to when life hits them hard and when they are lost. How you live speaks volumes and penetrates depths that the human voice could never reach. When you are able to stand strong in who God has made you to be including the Love, Kindness, and Respect no matter what or who you face, you have become steadfast. How often do you take the form or shape shift into the hearts around you instead of remaining in the Heart He has made you to be? Once the world can no longer get you to change colors like a chameleon (i.e. taking the color of each heart that crosses your path), you then have become complete in Him. Remain in Him and He will remain in you, don’t change colors to match the world around you instead paint the world around you with the color He has made you to be.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
Susie …
Someone had forwarded me this story some time back and it came on my Heart to share it with you today :) It touches my Heart every time I read it and reminds me just how important it is that we are here for each other.
Come with me to a third grade classroom….. There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It’s never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they’ll never speak to him again as long as he lives. The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down and prays this prayer, ‘Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I’m dead meat.’ He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered. As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy’s lap. The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, ‘Thank you, God! Thank you, God!’ Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else – Susie. She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. “You’ve done enough, you klutz!” Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?” Susie whispers back, “I wet my pants once too.”
- Author Unknown
Life happens. We are not alone. We all just need our Susie. We face the trials we do so we learn compassion and empathy. It gives us the strength to step in and help because we’ve been there. We can then become the Susie in someone’s Life. God works thru each of our Hearts so we can help each other. There is nothing stronger than a Heart who has walked the shoes before you … those are the Hearts that God sends in to defend. Thank you to all of you who have ever been the Susie in someone’s Life. Who is the Susie in your Life?
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie L. Peters
I Believe …
There is power in what we Believe. I didn’t quite understand the depth of that statement until I endured all I did with my health challenges. During my life I would watch and hear countless times where someone received a health diagnosis and they instantly go down hill when the day before they were as strong as a racehorse. I actually believed for awhile that their illness just must have been so advanced it took a sudden turn for the worst. Then I walked my journey and was shown living proof of the power of what we Believe. Time and time again my diagnosis would spell out that there was nothing more the doctors could do for me. Each and every time without fail (no faltering) I would look at them and Believed whole Heartedly that God will decide when my time is up and not a man or woman on this earth no matter what letters are behind their name. I refused to accept or Believe what others so easily accept because to them the proof was right before their very own eyes and backed by scientific fact. Proof in this world meant nothing to me so I stared down Death and said, “Oh no, you are not coming for me. God has a plan for me and He will decide when my time is up.” You have to know my Faith is that of a child. I was not going to church. I was not reading the Bible. I Loved God. I Believed. I was then sent miracles that would have the doctor’s scratching their heads. I continued to face more and more critical times where death knocked on my door and I would yell, “Go away! I have something to Believe in!” I would then receive another miracle. I then would face another critical crash in my blood disorder and find myself in ICU again with the doctor’s doing everything they could to save my life. One time they were giving me 6 units of blood at the same time (even warming it before transfusing to try and reduce the rate of rejection) but my body rejected it as fast as it went in. On top of it my bone marrow had shut down, my body was rejecting the blood being put in so in this world it appeared I was goner again a time when there was nothing more they could do. I then received another miracle. No matter how weak I was in that hospital bed I would still utter the Words, “God you have a plan for me. I trust You and I Love You.” I NEVER gave up, NEVER. I have had countless miracles in my Life. Why? What makes me so special? Why is my story so different than others? It’s simple, because I Believe. What do you Believe?
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
A Few Good Men …
A Few Good Men. We are in the strongest battle of good against evil this world has ever seen. Many leaders are out there arming up their soldiers for battle with the focus being on the big picture, the war that needs to be won. They study their enemy. They strategize tactics necessary to claim Victory. They go thru rigorous and strenuous physical conditioning to ensure each and every soldier has the physical endurance and strength before facing combat. They don’t yet understand that the key to Victory starts within the soldier’s Heart.
I really enjoyed the movie Captain America because they chose a man based on his Heart and not his physical attributes. This is the key the world is too easily looking past. A man with the right Heart, can face anything, can endure anything, and will always overcome his enemy. It’s a secret weapon needed to put the evil down once and for all in this world. For when a man can overcome good against evil within his very own Heart, then he has persevered, endured the impossible, fought the biggest Beast and won! That is when all honor and glory is bestowed upon him because then he has proven worthy of the call. He walks this earth in Honor, Integrity, Valor and Dignity. These are the men we need protecting, defending and overcoming this world. Many are called, few are chosen. We need a few Good Men, are you one?
The strength needed to overcome is held within the Heart, not the muscles.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
Shake the dirt off!
Have you ever walked into a room and someone is so full of energy, life, kindness and joy that you are instantly drawn to them? Somehow it just makes you feel better being in the same room as them. Be that person!
I know the world tries to get you down but continue to fight thru it. Refuse to stay in the dark pit especially when the world tries to make you feel you’re not worth the effort. Shake the dirt off and rise above it! You ARE worth it and the world needs you in it!
This story was pressing on my Heart to share in the message today:
The Farmer’s Donkey: A Fable for Our Time
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out a way to get him out. Finally he decided it was probably impossible and the animal was old and the well was dry anyway, so it just wasn’t worth it to try and retrieve the donkey. So the farmer asked his neighbors to come over and help him cover up the well. They all grabbed shovels and began to shovel dirt into the well.
At first, when the donkey realized what was happening he cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement, he quieted down and let out some happy brays. A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked down the well to see what was happening and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was shaking it off and taking a step up. (Shifting)
As the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he continued to shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, to everyone’s amazement, the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off!
Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Every adversity can be turned into a stepping stone. The way to get out of the deepest well is by never giving up but by shaking yourself off and taking a step up.
What happens to you isn’t nearly as important as how you react to it.
Author Unknown
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
Solid Ground …
When something continues to be pressed on your Heart, don’t ignore it, act on it! That nudge is there to get you to do something that you need to do, something that could forever change your life. Get the courage to speak it or do it. Please don’t let life pass you by and it can but only if you let it. Say what you have to say and do what you have to do. Listen to that persistent nudging. I have seen too many times where people fail to listen because they don’t have the courage to say what they are feeling or do what they need to do so they settle into a life and wonder why they end up feeling empty, alone (even when in a relationship) and miserable. It’s because they didn’t listen to what was being spoken to them and made their own choices of what they wanted instead of what God was telling them. It’s not too late to still obtain the Life He has planned for you but you have to do your part. You have to hear and then do what He speaks to you. And yes, often it will cost you life as you know it because the life you built wasn’t on the foundation it should have been. It was based on your free will not His. So, if tornados seem to be happening in your life destroying everything in its path, trust there is a plan. Things that you built with your free will are being torn down so God can build a House that will stand even in the strongest storm because it will be built brick by brick, layer by layer from His Divine Will for your Life. And that House will stand united, strong, endure forever and no man, angel or demon will separate or destroy it ever again. For what God builds with His Hands and His Will He always protects and nothing can destroy.
Listen to that Heart Tug.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Beloved …
Love endures all things. It will never give up. It will stand in the face of adversity and overcome. It will claim back Its territory and draw the line in the sand. It will claim Victory.
Let your Heart return to it’s source, the true root, your First Love … then the Love that was planned for you from the beginning of time will return to you. For you must first give up life to gain Life. I hear God gently speaking these Words, “Return to Me … willingly surrender, Love me more than you love life and I will rescue you from this world for I am your First Love.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP9pftLiVRA&feature=related
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Man in the Mirror …
What do you see when you look in the mirror? Are your eyes quick to see what you feel are flaws in how you look? Do you quickly come up with a list of things you wish were different about you? Take a minute to look. Are you wishing you had a different nose? different hair? different weight? different eye color? What is it you see exactly?
Now take another look in the mirror but this time I want you to remove the glasses of the world and see past the physical attributes and instead see directly into your Heart, what do you see now? This is where your eyes should be looking and not to the external features. Your true DNA in God is held within your Heart and not in the physical at all. Your eye color doesn’t make you who you are. Your weight doesn’t make you who you are. Your hair color doesn’t make you who you are. The Heart you Live makes you who you are.
Ask God to give you His eyes so you can see into your Heart and understand who you are and who you aren’t. You have to see past the physical otherwise that perspective will draw you into a life that isn’t planned for you, whether it chooses depression (because you don’t feel attractive or good enough), materialism (buying everything to try to validate who you are by having the best house, car, clothes, etc.), or the wrong relationship (because you settle thinking you don’t deserve more), etc. The worldly perspective chooses something far different than what God has planned for you. So start longing to see things thru His eyes because then you will see the things that matter and what really needs to change and what doesn’t. He will show you the beauty of who you are as well as the things He wants perfected in you. The awesome part is He will change your Heart if you are willing. Are you willing?
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Purpose …
There is only one you in the world for a reason and if there is only one you then why would you ever compare yourself to someone else? It would be like comparing apples to oranges. You are you by design not by chance. Look up and get confirmation of who you are and why you are on this earth. What is your specific purpose? When you let your eyes shift to the things of the world then you end up feeling like you and your life never quite measure up to what others have and that leaves a feeling of discouragement and unworthiness. That thinking tries to make you feel you aren’t as special, you aren’t as successful and the life you have is as get as it gets. When the Truth is there is a whole new world planned for you but you have to stop comparing yourself to others and feeling you don’t quite measure up. Whose image were you made in? It certainly wasn’t your neighbor, your spouse, your friend, your boss or your co-worker. Look up, that is who you want to be like. Once your focus is up then you will begin to understand who you are and why you are here because then you are open to the guidance that will walk you right into your purpose. And everyone wants to live their purpose.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
Integrity …
Integrity. “The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness” (defined on google). I want to encourage you to live a life of Integrity no matter what situation you face whether it is at home, at work or with friends. No longer go along with the crowd or conform to something just because everyone else is doing it. Don’t compromise who you are for your spouse (husband or wife), your friend, your boyfriend or girlfriend, your boss or your coworker. No job, marriage, friendship or relationship is worth comprising your Integrity. Be honest and hold onto strong moral principles ALWAYS. When you live a life of Integrity, your ways will be blessed because you are not conforming to the world or compromising your character to please someone else but instead you are standing upright in who you were born to be.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie