His Still Small Voice by A Woman Assigned

A Time for Everything: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, 
 a time to plant and a time to uproot, 
a time to kill and a time to heal, 
a time to tear down and a time to build, 
a time to weep and a time to laugh, 
a time to mourn and a time to dance, 
 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, 
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, 
a time to search and a time to give up, 
 a time to keep and a time to throw away, 
 a time to tear and a time to mend, 
a time to be silent and a time to speak, 
a time to love and a time to hate, 
a time for war and a time for peace.

I had a conversation with a stranger in the BMV this morning. We spoke briefly about how we both observe that people just go along with the status quo, never challenging what's in front of them. Never taking the time, or making the effort to examine beyond what is told to them, or what appears to be popular. Following blindly down roads that appear to lead to popular places, people and things, with no thought about the outcome. While I sat here in front of my computer, feeling the need to blog, Robert Frost's poem entitled "The Road Less Traveled came to mind." I've read the poem several times and many theories can be derived about what the writer meant, implied, inferred, and a host of other analytical and literary terms. The poem in its entirety reads: The Road Less Traveled by Robert Fros t T wo roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent ...

This is a portion of a conversation, I had with a dear friend of mine as we exchanged emails this morning in reflection of this past year. It was her suggestion that I post it. I hope these words bless yet another and this action ties in with what I want my life to be in the days, months and years to come. It is my desire that my life experience, and my testimony will transform into motivations for change in the life of others... In reflection... Aren't you glad that He's a God who opens doors that NO MAN can shut and closes doors that NO MAN can open. They are open doors of access for opportunity or doors of destruction closed for our protection. Don't look at what we've lost, let's look at what we stand to gain as a result of our losses. I've lost so called friends, abusive relationships, people who weigh you down, negative conversationalists, gifts with strings attached, and I've gained my freedom in Christ, a new perspective, a greater appreciation for...

Hello Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, Today is Soul Saturday and as I reflect over the past few months, while silent, much has taken place. Transition, metamorphosis, maturing, refining, and growing. Allowing God to remove the dross, the impurities so that His refined product shall come forth. Proverbs 25: 4 states: "Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer." Though we are not always "comfortable" while being readied for our assignments, the results are indeed the perfect work of the Master. Although the process is never ending, when you begin to see the evidence of what's emerging, we have to acknowledge His handiwork in our lives. He deserves all the glory, the honor and the praise. I don't know about you, but I know where He's brought me from and I am evidence of what He will do when you commit your way to His way and submit your will to His will. Let us not despise our beginnings, for the "end of a mat...

An opening thought... One Sunday morning when I awoke, the Lord reminded me that "It's All Spiritual." As I now explore and delve into more knowledge around my spiritual gifts and the significance of the fruits of the spirit, I am enamored with the word of God and anxious to continue to gain more wisdom, more knowledge and more understanding. In recent months I've discovered, and heard people being referred to, labeled, and called "spiritual." The question that immediately comes to mind is of what spirit? The word tells us in 1 John 4:1, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God..."   "It's all Spiritual." Don't be deceived by people, places and or things that come wrapped in what appears to be "God's packaging." They may very well be impostors, impersonators, counterfeit, lures and bait used by the enemy to pull off his work of trickery, treachery, malice and destruc...

Hello Everyone, Someone, Anyone, Today is Magnificent Monday, and I want to express the immeasurable amount of gratitude in my attitude. Blog topic: Anecdote to Selfishness >> Service Yesterday, God provided me with an opportunity to participate in an awesome display of service. Myself, along with an awesome group of women, prepared and served dinner to the women and children at the Wheeler Women's and Children Shelter. Just like God, the day flowed according to His divine direction. For morning service, I participated in the third of a teaching series on Grace, with yesterday's focus on "Contentment"... how to be "content" in the midst of our circumstances. The point of the teaching was to remind us that God's grace is more than enough . After service, I accompanied a dear friend of mine, indeed one of God's angels, to the shelter, where we prepared dinner that we would serve to the residents as well as those from the outside who re...

Since the beginning of time God has attempted to get us to understand the importance and benefits of obedience. If we revisit Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, all God required was that they obey Him. Just like Adam and Eve, the same holds true for us today. Access to living blessed starts and ends with a posture, a stance of obedience. Be reminded that the first act of disobedience, and how we chose to live outside of that which God ordained for our lives, took place in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. Progressively as we move through the bible, we have consistently displayed a posture of blatant disobedience unto God and have reaped the consequences of such. Eden was the first promise land. The reference(s) to Eden is not necessarily to focus on the garden aspect of it, but what it represents metaphorically… Eden was a place of beauty, life, and abundance. God is fervently trying to get us back to Eden, that place in Him, that place that says we can live blessed; where He...