Self Reflection
As we go thru life, we live and we learn.
We wander off path to learn the value of the straight path.
We make mistakes to learn the gift to forgive and be forgiven.
We hit rock bottom so we are forced to look up.
We experience weakness so we learn how to gain strength.
We face fear so we are taught the importance of courage.
We face sorrow to learn the gift of happiness and joy.
We go thru heartbreak to learn the difference between false love and True Love.
We experience death so we can embrace and value the gift of Life.
Don’t give up, keep taking the steps even if the tiles are crumbling under your feet. It will all come together and that beautiful rainbow WILL reach down to touch the grass right before you to bring Heaven to earth.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
True Beauty …
Our life is not only a story, it tells a story and with more description than any words could ever bring. Actions truly speak louder than words. What story is your life speaking? Are you angry? sad? or just plain fed up? Or are you happy? thankful? content? What people often don’t realize is the person standing next to you in the store who sees you lose your temper with your kids or spouse only knows you through the story that your life speaks. In other words there are no excuses or trying to justify your behavior because you aren’t going to have an opportunity to say, “oh, it’s just work getting to me” or “I’m going thru a lot right now and am ready to blow a gasket”. Throw out the crutch named excuses and the other crutch named self justification, God’s the only one who can justify.
If your Heart is convicting you right now please don’t get discouraged, be thankful for the conviction because the good news is your behavior can change. That behavior is NOT who you are so don’t own it! How do you know for sure that behavior is not who you are? Because the conviction in your Heart is God saying, “Child, you know better. This is not who I brought you up to be.” So, just as a child gets a little butt spanking and learns not to behave a certain way, this is your butt spanking. It’s time to mature into the full Beauty He has called you to be. It doesn’t matter if you are man or woman God is beautiful and His Beauty is meant to shine through you, no more excuses and no more justification of why you behave a certain way. It’s time to claim who you are in Him by living it. You CAN do this, ask Him for help. Today is the day for change.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
Sing a New Song …
Our Life is a song. The song that is played speaks all languages. The song we are to sing was determined at birth but the world tries to keep us out of tune at all times, please don’t let it. The experiences we go through and lessons we learn are meant to fine tune the notes to ensure we are singing the song we were meant to sing from the beginning of time. If you had to best describe the notes your Life has been singing lately, what would they be? Are you singing anger? hate? jealousy? misery? judgment? Or are you speaking Love? Kindness? Inspiration? Encouragement? I have learned that no matter what people are doing around me or to me I am the one that has to face the music at the end of each and every day. As a Mom I don’t accept the response, “Well I reacted that way because they did _______” from my kids and neither will God. I teach my children, “you and only you are the one responsible for your actions at the end of the day … no one else. I don’t care what someone did to you or what events took place, it is you and God at the end of the day … that’s it, there is no one else He is concerned with at that moment but you.” So this is a gentle reminder that God takes no excuses. Live your Life so at the end of the day when you face the music, God Loves the song so much He wants the world to hear it.
No more excuses, it’s time for you to get that Heart tuned up and singing a New Song, a song that is Music to His ears and to each Heart who hears it.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
Climbing the Ladder …
I saw a vision of a ladder extending up to Heaven and on it was someone trying to climb it but they had everything but the kitchen sink tied to their back. I saw bag after bag, I saw gold, I saw picture frames … all kinds of stuff. The load was so heavy they climbed two steps and the steps were about ready to give under their feet from the weight. They could no longer handle the heavy load so they climbed back down and sat discouraged with their head down. They had not even considered taking all of the stuff off of their back so they could climb right up the ladder. I thought, “Why are you discouraged? Take the stuff off and climb up.” What in the world are you clinging to that is holding you back from climbing that ladder and going straight up to the top? Cling to nothing in this world, it truly is meaningless. All in this world is nothing compared to what is waiting for you. You can climb up and bring it down because it is yours to claim but you have to be willing to leave things behind to get there. Don’t get discouraged, put the things down you have been holding on to and get climbing up that ladder would ya?
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
Your Heartbeat …
The mind is a powerful thing but the Heart holds within it everything we need.
Your mind will only continue to race if you fuel it. So if you want to rest peacefully at night and have been wondering why that isn’t happening, please stop fueling your mind … enough God says, Enough! Shift out of your mind and into your Heart. Set quiet time aside with God so He can help you with this. It’s like a student who complains that they keep failing math but yet they are not showing up for class allowing the teacher to teach or help them. Is it the teacher’s fault or the student’s? God is not failing you … you have to show up for class.
In your quiet time with Him, you will be shown the things in your life that are fueling the fire in your mind. Layer by layer He will help you to remove them but you need to first seek and then listen for His instruction. Many seek but few stop to listen. The only Fire He wants fueled is in the Heart so quit wasting the fuel on the mind. The mind will send you on a rat race every time leaving you feeling defeated, stressed, hopeless and like you can never get your head above water. But when the Heart leads and instructs the mind, then you will see major changes in your life and quickly. Everyone seems to focus on that powerful mind seemingly forgetting that the mind is utterly useless unless the Heart is beating.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
The state of your Heart …
There are two faces for love, one used to purify the heart and one that dwells only within a pure Heart. What is the state of your heart? The way you can tell is based on your reactions and your thoughts within your daily lives. When your kid spills his drink all over the table, what’s your reaction? When your husband has to work late again at the office, what’s your reaction? When a person cuts you off in traffic, what’s your reaction?
A pure Heart reacts only with one of these things … Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. The circumstances surrounding you are to test and purify your heart so if something arises that is not one of these things, then ask for forgiveness and change within your heart. Change can happen but it has to start within us first.
I want to encourage you to be mindful of what you speak, how you react and how you treat others using the things listed above as a measuring stick to what is edifying and what isn’t. For with a pure Heart, you will see God and that is something I want everyone in the world to experience.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
Purpose …
If you keep trying to put your hands to something over and over again but are at a point of complete frustration with no Will left inside your heart to keep going, then ask yourself these questions:
1. Are you trying to please people or God? If you are trying to please the people around you, more times than not you will fail because you’re trying to hit a moving target. But, when you look up and want to please God then no matter how impossible the situation looks He will place strong Will in your heart so you never give up and are able to achieve what He needs you to achieve.
2. Who are you? What defines you? Many have lost their identity because the Truth of who they are and who they were born to be has been defined by the influence of the world. What I mean is they are doing what they are doing because they are trying to live up to an image for someone else, they are in a career that was chosen based on what salary the degree would earn, or they are a product of their environment (primarily family influence) that has told them who they are or who they should be. The current society is quick to look to the world for answers of who they are so the world then molds them into that image. It’s why they feel empty inside and walk around like zombies (dead inside with no Life). However, if you ask God “what is my purpose?” He will then mold us into His image step by step and restore our true identity. When you walk in your purpose, you have Life inside that no one can rob from you. What is your purpose?
Your title in the world doesn’t define you, your purpose does … find your purpose.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
Precious Gift of the New Year …
I want to wish you and your family a wonderfully Blessed 2012. I felt in my heart to share the poem I received last year again. May this year be the year you have been waiting for where all your dreams come true. Much Love from my Heart to yours, Happy New Year! :)
Baby New Year
By: Ammie L. Peters, 12/31/10
The current year cries in labor pains of all it has endured.
No looking back to gain a day, or making regrets fewer.
One year ago we each gave birth to a new and precious child.
Did we cherish the gift and hold it tight or ignore it for awhile?
Did we abandon it as we clung to days of past that will
never come again?
Or did we embrace the gift of what we were given and let a
life begin?
Did we greet each day with love and care nurturing it to
grow?
Or did we throw the baby out with the bath water, as the
saying goes.
The labor pains of looking back may seem too strong with
which to deal,
But here we are one year later not believing it is real.
Time turns its back and slips through cracks not missing us
– not even for a minute,
But yet all we can do is sit and wish we only had more of it
so we can finish!
Finish what? I ask. The project list and things we think that
we must do?
Did you give birth to work and lists or did it just become a
part of you?
Welcome the gift of each new birth with a thankful heart and
smile upon your face,
Love, cherish and care for it never letting it out of your sweet
embrace.
You will then see the baby grow to bring you joy and peace making your heart content,
Because that’s the moment you understand the reason for
which it was sent.