Good Morning you guys!!!! 

Soo, here we GO! Right into reading: 1 Peter Chapter  1 (Yup, go ahead and get it done! lol!)…

And then, back here to begin:

Choices, choices, choices — yes, they are around us all day long (and dare I say, all night??? 🙂 And well, sometimes we (me!) do not even SEE the possibilities in front of us.  Like sometimes I have been STUCK doing the same thing, over and over and over again…never even realizing that I have another option…

And I guess that’s just what I really liked about 1 Peter today. Yes, chapter one of another one of the wee books of the New Testament (only 5 day worth of ‘study-stuff’. Again, how nice of God to start us out simple and sweet and SHORT like that – lol!)..But I think what I got the most out of the chapter (did you read yours already??) was one word…. Any guesses for the ‘goodie-two-shoes’ who already have read it??…:)

I sure HOPE so….:)

Oh yes,  that was the word: HOPE.

And what a short word – with such a BIG meaning…..

“Cause when I reflect back to the very beginning of this piece, and I look at my old cycle of doing the SAME thing over and over and over again —  well, I really do recognise that it is NOT a peaceful place and it sure as well feels HOPELESS.   Especially when, back then,  I could not even SEE I could live, do or BE differently…..Do you know what I mean?…

But Peter is clearly on a mission to challenge my old OPINION  — by giving me some new options.

And there are :

1. FIRST: I need to free up some negative HOPELESS HEADSPACE. Yup, time to step away from my CYCLICAL SIN-SPOT. Peter sure shows that these ‘trials and testing’ can be a way to REFINE us, grow us and  bring out the GOD-GOLD in us, IF we choose to go through the TOUGH CHOICES to work on removing them.  Yes, the first step is to get OUT the GUCK and JUNK in my daily actions and reactions…This cleaning out-my-soul process, intentionally and diligently and daily, really begins the best way  to fight my helpless and hopeless state of mind as it begins to clear my mind …..And if I want to CHANGE my mind I can CHOOSE to begin Step 2 and to put in some:

2. SOLID GOD TRUTHS!!! Yes – old with old, in the with NEW.  Time for NEW OBEDIENT behaviours:  Things that just may scare the pants off me even thinking about doing, risking, trying…But as I CHOOSE to slowly add them in, instead of my SIN, they oh-so-slowly BUILD MY HEART — into a way better place! Of healing, health, wholeness and, you got it: HOPE. 

Yes, the more is CONSISTENTLY I choose GODS GUDENIENS over what I used to believe I had to do, or thought I could ONLY do, or would never ever DARE to do, well GOD began to PROVE to me that my OLD WAYS WERE: WRONG…. And the layers of LOCKDOWN in my brain LIFTED….and I was able to see what used to look like to me to be only a “lame-life”, and shift into seeing my life more like God does: a chance to grow and choice to GO and began to build in me a voice to let others know  that there is something MORE than what I ever thought before…..

And so, the POWER of 1 Peter Day 1 seems to me to be the GIFT of HOLY HOPE  thru seeing I have a daily choice to 1) remove something that is stinky up my SOUL and 2) build in some obedience to the one that I KNOW  — so that I have space in my heart to GO  love on other’s SOUL. (vs 22) ….And THIS last step, even though  it seems to so daunting and draining when I was stuck in my stinky-stuff, is now the most  freeing and filling ….And wakes me up, gets me up and lifts me up — and fill my soul with TRUE GOD-GOLD HOPE.

And if this can  happen to mess me up?? It can happen to you — and I don’t even have to say I HOPE so, because GOD said SO.

But do you believe it’s true? COULD this GOLDEN-GOD HOPE come to you?? 

Let me know what you think ladies — there is always a lesson to learn from each other…No one is any better than any other — soo, bless you in advance for sharing a truth from YOU today…Carol 🙂

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