Today is a special day.  We will be in S. Calif. to see my two sisters there arriving around noontime.  Both are widows now which is a real awakening moment that this life here on earth is truly temporary.  I can and do get so caught up in the daily living that I often forget that the daily living has an eternal connection.  Satan would love to keep us caught in the doldrums of the day but there is a HOPE that springs eternal when we lift our eyes to God Himself and see just how much He Loves us and wants us to get to know Him, His Son Jesus and His Holy Spirit.

As I was reading the last two chapters of Philippians this morning I was made aware of something I want to share.  Paul is writing to the people of Philippi in this book.  God awakened in me as I was reading it that 10 years ago we (a small team of 7) were preparing ourselves to start Celebrate Recovery at our church.  One of us was taking the lead as she had already had this preparedness and was now using it to build our own.  During the past 10 years I have learned so well just how much God has wanted me to take all of my past and instead of hiding it, pull it out one chuck at a time, face it, deal with the hurt and damage of it, repair and heal, and then face some more.  We often call this process:  peeling the onion.  God gave me some very special people to assist in this process too.  Now, ten years later, God is using me to help prepare a new group of leaders to address those caught in the destruction of Sexual Brokenness.  Two weeks from today we will start the leadership training for the groups just as we did ten years ago for our Celebrate Recovery.  I would have never dreamed 10 years ago that I would be writing such a detail as this.  Nor would I sense such a freedom and desire to help others know this freedom from living as the new creation God has given each of us through His Son’s work on the Cross.  How grateful I am!

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day.  The day of LOVE.  Man does a lot to demonstrate what man thinks love is.  But God has shown us the Ultimate Love through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus and by giving us His very own Spirit to live within us if we only accept His Son’s work on the Cross by asking Him into our lives (hearts).

And now—off to California!