My Soul...

{Walk your Talk}

"You call ME Master and obey ME not;
You call ME light and see ME not;
You call ME the Way and walk ME not;
You call ME life and live ME not;
You call ME wise and follow ME not;
You call ME fair and love ME not;
You call ME rich and ask ME not;
You call ME eternal and seek ME not;
If I condemn you, blame ME not."

"It is not how high you can jump that matters,
but how straight you can walk when you hit
the ground again."

Posted byImelda@Inspired Simplicity at 11/14/2006 1 comments    

we forget...

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow,
yet we forget that he is someone today."
~Stacia Tauscher~

Oftentimes we get so busy raising our children
we forget to enjoy them.

We get so caught up in cleaning our house
that we forget to enjoy it.

Posted byImelda@Inspired Simplicity at 11/08/2006 0 comments    

{Difficulties to Blessings}

I was watching the show, Room by Room,
on HGTV and as the host was showing how
to decorate a room with fabrics, she said:

"Don't let the task overwhelm you,
let the finished product overwhelm you."

This brought to mind a quote
from an angel friend:

Looking back,
We see with great clarity,
What once appeared as difficulties
Now reveal themselves as blessings.
~Dan Milman~


My prayer:
Dear God,
I know that sometimes in the heat of my problems
My human nature blurs my “vision”
Help me remember...
...that just as my body needs exercise,
so too,does my spirit need challenges to exercise my faith
...that even when I can’t see solutions to my problems
I just need to have faith and trust in YOU
Because to YOU everything is possible
...that though I may not see past my present afflictions,
through YOU and in YOUR due time,
these difficulties will be manifested as blessings

One day...we shall gratefully see
that God's great refusals
were sometimes the truest answers
to our prayers."
~P.T. Forsythe~

Out of difficulties grow miracles.
-Jean De La Bruyere

Posted byImelda@Inspired Simplicity at 11/08/2006 0 comments    

{On Discipline}

No discipline seems pleasant at the time,
but painful.
Later on, however, it produces
a harvest of righteousness
and peace for those
who have been trained by it.
~Hebrews 12:11~

The word disciple comes from the word discipline.
To be a disciple of Jesus, we must discipline
ourselves to follow HIS ways.

Posted byImelda@Inspired Simplicity at 11/08/2006 0 comments    

{On Afflictions}

Afflictions are opportunities
for God to demonstrate
HIS sustaining grace
and show
HIS work in our lives.

We all go through all sorts of afflictions in this world.
We can allow them to either break us or lift us up.
The choice is ours. If we choose God's way,
our afflictions can lead us closer to HIM.

My prayer:
Dear God, I thank you and praise you
...for working out all the situations in my life
including my afflictions.
...for using my afflictions to lead me closer to YOU
and to glorify YOU.
...for always guiding me to chose the better path
...and for sending angel friends through that path
reminding me that I need these afflictions
so I will not rely on my own self
and to always come to YOU.

Posted byImelda@Inspired Simplicity at 11/03/2006 0 comments