Gimme A Giant Highlighter

I was listening to my I-Pod the other day and my granddaughter, Ella, reached for it and wanted to listen too. I picked her up and stuck one ear bud in her ear and left one in mine. I happened to be listening to a cheesy country song, but it had a great beat and was fun to dance to. Ella got a huge grin on her face and started moving. (She LOVES to dance.) We danced around the room with me singing at the top of my lungs. What a great moment. Pure happiness with one of my favorite people on earth.

I wish I had a life highlighter. Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to highlight certain moments in your life and revisit them? I don’t mean a video of the birthday party, but a true highlighter that could capture the essence of the moment and let you live it again. I would highlight dancing with Ella.

What would you highlight? Let me know.

I Like Quotes, Part Two

Here are the next two quotes.

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Muriel Strode

Ella’s quote is great. “Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” As a Christian, I need to own that. The Love of Christ is a free gift and He certainly has given me inspiration through His word, His Spirit, my experiences with Him and what I have seen in lives of others. I can’t go wrong if I am following God’s lead.

I also know that He has uniquely gifted each one of us and put a dream in our heart. The first part of the quote is great too. “Don’t give up.” That’s the hard part. Life certainly has a way of getting in the way. But then I have to remember, I have the Love and Inspiration of God within me.

And that takes me to Ms. Strode. Blaze a trail. How exciting. I can be an adventurer, an explorer, a trail blazer. If I follow God, I will blaze a trail through this world. When I read the New Testament books about the early church, I see trailblazers. I see adventurers. I want to live a life of adventure with God. What could be better?

Live Big today. Live like you have the Power of Jesus within you. And if you forget, remember He took care of that part too. Just pick up where you left off and keep blazing a trail.

I Like Quotes, Part One

I love quotes, mostly by other people. (now and then I quote myself, but I’ve heard that is just repeating yourself) I came across three quotes that really pushed me to think about the way I live. The quotes built on each other, so the order for me was important. Here is the first one.

“Worship is transcendent wonder.” — Thomas Carlyle

Wow. Transcendent and wonder. What better ways to describe worship and Our Lord!

Those two words really bring you back to the fact that because our God is not of this world, and we have His power within us, we are not limited by the confines of this world. What an extraordinary concept. That we are truly not limited by this world. I know we read that in God’s Word, but do I believe it for my everyday life? Do I really believe that God will work in super-natural ways and that I not only get to witness it, but be a part of it?

So that brings me to worship. When we are living a life of worship, we are living “out of this world.” We are having a super-natural experience when we worship. And I can live that way all the time if I put my heart into it. Worship is giving yourself to God in whatever you are doing. Putting Him and His ways first in your life. I believe that. I believe that worship is our love song to God and the possibilities are as individual as each person. So I need to remember those words. Transcendent and wonder. Like they said in the 60’s, “Outta this world man!” That’s my God. And it could be my life.