At day’s end when golden rays slide silently into shadowrunning through the shorter colours of the rainbowwhile sun’s bright disk is swallowed by …
Reflecting at dusk
Reflecting at dusk
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Are you a Pragmatist?
“Pragmatism” is a “practical approach to living. Pragmatists prefer problem solving and action.” Common sense, practical people tend to be …
Are you a Pragmatist?
Proud Beauty
In a world Of negativity, A beautiful heart Stands out Among thorns. Her positive influence Excites the smiles Of others, Bringing joy And …
Proud Beauty
A Wrinkle On Your Forehead
Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead…..
This is your life…
Are you who you want to be?
…..Is it everything you’ve dreamed it would be?
Today for Song Sunday we are going back a few years to a classic song by Switchfoot, This Is Your Life.
As you listen to the song and really hear the lyrics…. Ask yourself….
Are You Who You Want To Be?
Is life everything you dreamed it could be?
If not…… Then start making steps to change!
Yesterday is dead and over…..
Just a wrinkle on your forehead.
Make a plan now for a better tomorrow!
~ XXOO Michelle Bollom
Lyrics:
Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you’ve broken
Don’t close your eyes
Don’t close your eyes
This is your life and today is all you’ve got now
And today is all you’ll ever have
Don’t close your eyes
Don’t close your eyes
This is your life
Are you who you want to be?
This is your life
Are you who you want to be?
This is your life
Is it everything you’ve dreamed it would be
When the world was younger
And you had everything to lose?
Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over
And this is your life
Are you who you want to be?
This is your life
Are you who you want to be?
This is your life
Is everything you’ve dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger
And you had everything to lose?
Don’t close your eyes
Don’t close your eyes
Don’t close your eyes
Don’t close your eyes
This is your life
Are you who you want to be?
This is your life
Are you who you want to be? Yeah
This is your life
Are you who you want to be, who you want to be? Yeah
This is your life
Are you who you want to be, who you want to be?
This is your life
Is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger
And you had everything to lose?
You had everything to lose?
Something Has To Break
This weeks #SongSunday is “Something Has To Break” by Red Rocks Worship and Essential Worship.
Video link has lyrics in text.
To Bloom Boldly
A new day Is upon us With beauty Filling a Sacred place With eclipses Of thankfulness, Letting joy Caress each smile To bloom boldly
To Bloom Boldly
Rest On Us
I have this song on repeat lately!
https://music.apple.com/us/album/rest-on-us-live/1503255202?i=1503255208
Rest On Us – UpperRoom
I Don’t Dread Anything…
I don’t dread anything …
I don’t fear the unknowns…
I don’t live in anxiety about what will happen…
The specifics don’t really matter to me…
I KNOW that I will conquer, overcome and be victorious with and through Jesus Christ my Lord!
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us so much that He died for us. — Romans 8:37 AMP
—XXOO Michelle Bollom
Non, je ne regrette rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
No, I do not regret anything!
The latest Allstate commercial song has been ringing and resounding in my head …. so today I decided to Shazam it.
It’s a French pop song from 1987 by Edith Piaf.
Here are the lyrics in English and French. The song is sung in French.
No, nothing at all
No, I do not regret anything
Nor the good that was done to me
Nor the evil
All that I care
No, nothing at all
No, I do not regret anything
It is paid, swept away, forgotten
I do not care about the past
With my memories
I started the fire
my sorrows, my pleasures
I do not need them anymore
Swept away the loves
With their tremolos
Swept away forever
I go back to zero
No, nothing at all
No, I do not regret anything
Nor the good that was done to me
Nor the evil
All that I care
No, nothing at all
No, I do not regret anything
Because my life
Because my joys
Today
It begins with you
— Edith Piaf
Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
Ni le bien qu’on m’a fait
Ni le mal
Tout ça m’est bien égal
Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
C’est payé, balayé, oublié
Je me fous du passé
Avec mes souvenirs
J’ai allumé le feu
Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs
Je n’ai plus besoin d’eux
Balayé les amours
Avec leurs trémolos
Balayé pour toujours
Je repars à zéro
Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
Ni le bien qu’on m’a fait
Ni le mal
Tout ça m’est bien égal
Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
Car ma vie
Car mes joies
Aujourd’hui
Ça commence avec toi
Feast On His Faithfulness
Keep trusting in the Lord and do what is right in his eyes. Fix your heart on the promises of God and you will be secure, feasting on his faithfulness. – Psalm 37:3, The Passion Translation
A theme on the heart of the Father right now seems to be His FAITHFULNESS. Everywhere I go, no matter who I speak to, others are being awakened again to the faithfulness of our great God. People are marinating in the fact that every word that He speaks is true, and that He never lies or changes His mind (Numbers 23:19), and that He indeed keeps every promise that He makes.
I love the way The Passion Translation articulates Psalm 37:3 here: “…Fix your heart on the promises of God and you will be secure, feasting on his faithfulness.”
The Lord has challenged me over the past few months to really look at His promises, and not just mindlessly declare them but really engage my heart with them. As The Passion Translation says, I have had to really “fix my heart” on His promises.
Fixing my heart on a promise means partnering with it, and being so secure in the conviction His words are true, that I can actually feast upon His faithfulness. He always keeps His promises, and every word that He speaks is unchangeable. He is the definition of faithfulness.
There are so many things in the “atmosphere” right now that would invite us to engage everywhere other than with His promises and especially with His faithfulness. At times, the focus tends to be more on the unfulfilled promises than the fact that HE IS FAITHFUL.
At times I have found myself just nibbling on the reality of His faithfulness, but not fully fixing my heart on Him, and thus I tend to get overwhelmed again by the things swirling about in the atmosphere around me. Right now, though, I feel such an invitation from the Lord to actually FEAST on His faithfulness, and not just nibble!
Feasting and nibbling are two different things. As sons and daughters of the King, we have the privilege of getting to FEAST upon His faithfulness. Psalm 23:5 even states that we get to do this in the presence of our enemies, at a table set up just for us by our own Father. And because He is such a good God, He will go one step further to bless us by not only giving us a feast, but doing it in a place where everyone can see that it is just for us.
Psalm 23:6 says that surely goodness and mercy will follow us all the days of our lives. In Hebrew, that word “follow” actually means to chase down with a hostile intent. Today, regardless of what I see or feel around me, I am choosing again to FEAST (not just nibble) upon the truth that His goodness and mercy (and faithfulness) are chasing me down. I am going to fix my heart upon Him and His faithfulness, hold on tightly, and choose to not look elsewhere.
Let us seize and hold tightly the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is reliable and trustworthy and faithful [to His word]. – Hebrews 10:23, AMP
— Mandy Woodhouse
