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Hello Everyone!

I just wanted to say to you all that I pray your day is full of joy and that you will take the time to recognize just how truly blessed your life is.  Think of all of the people that you dearly love, furry people included.  Take a moment and just thank God that you have them in your life today.  Practicing gratitude lifts your vibrational level and changes your body chemistry. 

For anybody who is interested, here are some links I hope you will find enjoyable.  The first is for my Art Dolls.  Stop in and check out the pictures and let me know what you think!  The second is just my random thoughts page....and it will most likely be very random, lol.  This will be where I will post updates about my writing projects and anything else that pops into my head.


http://mylilsmooskinz.blogspot.com/p/sculpts-to-choose-from.html
http://bettyhumphrey/blogspot.com

Thanks for looking!

LET'S STOP JUDGING ALREADY-GOD HAS A HANDLE ON IT!

GETTING OVER OURSELVES

There is absolutely no way in the world that you can convince one individual that their way of looking at a situation is not THE only viewpoint there is-or at least the only CORRECT viewpoint, anyway.  I have come to realize that as a Christian woman, I have to get over myself quite a bit in an ongoing basis if I am to be useful in God’s Kingdom at all.  Little things trip us up.  We read the bible and we KNOW what it says IS truth-but sometimes we just plainly forget the rest of the instruction which is DO NOT JUDGE.  It’s difficult not to judge!  Man is it ever!  We, as human beings have something to say about everything we witness.  We tote around canisters with huge labels on them and one by one we dissect and pick up pieces of the world and place them into these containers and we think we’re right.  But we’re not.  We’re not even close.  If we can somehow manage to keep our heads out where the sun can beam down upon them long enough, then God will show us HIS viewpoint on situations.  This is where we will actually become useful as a tool to bring others to Christ.

So long as we are running about on the planet judging and condemning others in the name of God-we are doing a disservice to His kingdom which I believe we will all have to answer for one day.  Jesus didn’t come so we could have a soapbox to stand on.  He came so that we can ALL have life and have it everlasting.  That includes rapists, adulterers, prostitutes, killers, liars and any other group you can possibly think of in which to stuff an individual.  Just because we sit in church doesn’t mean we are one inch closer to the Grace of God than someone else who perhaps isn’t in church at all.  It’s time to wake up and get over ourselves already.  Instead of spending all of our time being offended and opinionated about every bit of information that flows through our consciousness-let’s try this.  Let’s just be quiet, show love and let God do His job.  He doesn’t need us to tell others when they are wrong.  He needs us to break the bondage of those who are lost by showing them His Love for them!  I believe that Christians behaviors in the world today are achieving more in the way of filling the vacancies in hell with lost souls than all of the devil’s henchmen put together because we refuse to accept and love others in spite of their actions.  What if God was like that?  What if He didn’t accept you?  Certainly you are no more perfect than I or anyone else roaming around the planet.  What if He behaved toward US the way WE behave toward others?!  Talk about a scary thought, huh? 

Think about it.  Who is signing your payroll-spiritually I mean, if you are running around condemning actions that you don’t agree on.  “But it’s based on biblical truths.”  Yes it is.  Some things are wrong.  A lot of things are wrong-but who are we to judge?  Who are we to judge a homosexual for their actions?  Do you not have an addict, an unwed mother or an adulterer in your family that you love?  Come on, resist the urge to be offended and grasp this.  No matter who we are or how often we are in church or how many congregations we speak to in a year’s time-we are no better or closer to God’s Love than one that is lost in the depths of their own destruction.  In fact, we are equal to every other human being that has ever been born to walk upon the earth.  The difference is that we know God’s Love and it is now our responsibility to share that with every other person we possibly can.  Are you doing your part?  Am I doing mine?  How is that for a realization?

Every time I am tempted to feel negatively toward a person because of their actions, I am reminded that it is going to be terribly difficult to explain that behavior to the Living God when there is NO explanation.  God does not make mistakes.  You are not a mistake, I am not a mistake-and neither is anybody else.  In my small town of Elkton, Virginia I am ashamed to say are a dumptruck load of Christian Judges who wave bibles and sling condemnation in the name of God toward people who are caught in a life of homosexuality.  And yet I would be very surprised if I witnessed them going home and slinging the same condemnation upon themselves when they practice sin by watching unsuitable television programs or filling their bellies to overflowing at the local IHOP.  Nor would I expect to find any of them on their soapbox when it comes to their sons and daughters who manufacture and sell methamphetamines or give birth to fatherless children that they then neglect to care for.  I am not a perfect creature, myself.  Surely I have done many things that could have and would have sent my soul spiraling into hell had I not found the Love of God in my life.  That love is what changes people.  That love is what changes the heart and the nature of the person.  Then, and only then can the actions of the person change.  If you want to serve God-show his children you love them, more importantly-show His children that HE loves them.  Stop being a pawn of the devil and start being an advocate for Christ.

Keeping Forgiveness Alive

Kinetic Forgiveness, I have come to realize IS ongoing healing in our lives that we effectively CHOOSE to experience every single day by staying in the practice.

Last week, a colleague came to me and mentioned the name of an individual who, in the past had caused emotional, financial and physical turmoil for me in my life.  This person is someone who I truly believed that I had forgiven.  I felt forgiveness, I experienced emotional release from the event that took place and I held no animosity toward her-FOR A TIME.

When I heard her name-and of her assumed victorious living (at what I consider to be MY expense)-it really upset me.  Not specifically because she is doing well, but because she apparently had chosen to express negative feelings toward myself and the people that I work with every day.  I realized in about two seconds how far from forgiving her I now had become.  I felt offended.

Feeling offended is the first sign that forgiveness has slid backwards toward resentment.  I had not practiced ongoing kinetic forgiveness in this area with this individual-and I realized that there is another dimension to the concept of kinetic forgiveness that goes much deeper than even I-the author-understood.  Being vigilant about removing negativity toward others who have caused hurt in some way is essential and you have to be careful to practice it daily.

Satan uses resentments and memories of past hurts to steal our joy and to rob from us the peace of this moment that is given to us to enjoy and to live in the light of God's Love.  He is the silent thief who tries to steal the forgiveness from your heart and spirit and does his best to plant those seeds of resentment back in our hearts and minds.  I have come to understand that to experience Kinetic Forgiveness as a human being-we have to stay in prayer constantly and we have to keep a watch on what is just beneath the surface of our memory and emotional border.

And so, I have begun once again to walk with God in forgiving this individual and letting go of the hurt that had left so many tiny seeds of resentment in my heart and spirit.  I want to have the freedom of joy and happiness.  I want to have the healing in my mind, body and spirit that comes along with practicing Kinetic Forgiveness and I don't care how many days a week I have to be on my knees asking God to help me see her as He sees her-I will do it.  I will do it until all of the old wounds have healed within me and there is not one thing that the enemy can use to bring back a spirit of resentment within me toward her.

She is a child of God just like I am.  My sins are no less offensive to Him than hers are.  I am no better and She is no less.  We are equal.  We are even in God's eyes and the thing that I have to remember and be consistent to remind myself of is this:  It doesn't matter what the actions of another person brought about in my life.  God is the great equalizer and He will lift me to the level that is in His will for me.

What do you think? Do you have a person in your life that you secretly are still irritated with?  Maybe you are witholding forgiveness from them and you haven't yet become aware of it-like me.  If you are-I pray that you will find truth and healing in Kinetic Forgiveness.

From My Personal Collection

 I AM DEFIANT

I am defiant.  I am defiant of the waves of oppression that continually knock me to my knees.  I am defiant of the hoards of critics who say “you cannot”.  I stand and face the wind as opposed to buckling beneath it.  I do this not of my own power-but because He that is within me is Greater than He who is in the world. 

The power I have to stand is given to me by my Father in Heaven.  And if He says, "stand child-you will not fall.  Walk child, you will not stumble.  Rest child, I will not forsake you,"  then I will take those words into my heart and I will move as He instructs.  For I know the greatest secret of all.  He that has created me has certainly dreamed better and more wondrous paths for me in His heart than I shall ever find the power to create within my own. 

And so I will trust His voice and I will follow His words and I will watch as the chains that have bound me for so long are shattered and cast aside.  I will be ever humbled by His gracious love for me and the Glory of His name will shine forth for all to bear witness.  For the greatest freedom in life is to give oneself fully and completely as we surrender ourselves into the perfect Love of God. 

In this life, we become vessels of our own creation.  But, I say it is better to soften our hardened hearts and minds, to become once again the clay-soft and pliable, gentle and accepting.  And to humbly place all that we are in the powerful palm of His hand in order that we may become a changed creature. 

Blessed are we that are taken apart from the world.  We who are molded, sculpted, created and perfectly placed upon the earth by the Hand of He who has endeavored to create the world and then to love it and all of those in it, despite the sad perplexity of our strong and continual resistance. 

His heart teaches perfect love, His mind teaches perfect thoughts and His hand directs our feet upon paths made perfect by the completeness of His great plan for our lives.  This miraculous transformation becomes the sole act of surrendering into the Greatness of God - taking in every breath in waves of  the heightened expectation of His next awesome gift as we learn to give back unto Him more of the Love that He has so freely given to all of us.

Always Remember...

ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS:


Some people will slam the door shut in your face. God will open a better one. Some people will talk badly about you behind your back. God doesn't care what they think-neither should you. People will knock you down in order to raise themselves up. God will reach down and pick you back up. People will tell you that your dreams are out of reach when they don't have the courage to follow their own. God will laugh as He proves to the world that with Him-All things ARE possible!

Have You Really Forgiven Your Enemy?

Of course, we all like to believe that we have become pros at forgiving the actions of others.  Either that, or we are proud of how tightly we can cling to resentments and how much we are certain that our refusal to forgive a certain situation will make that person miserable.  We don't often stop and consider what is the absolute truth in these actions.

The absolute truth is that in order for US to receive forgiveness of OUR shortcomings--we MUST forgive ALL others for THEIRS.  And it doesn't matter the offense against us.  Small inconveniences are much easier to forgive than large catastrophic events-so when we begin our practice of Kinetic Forgiveness, it is always a good idea to start with the smaller things and work our way up.  Once we have grasped the wondrous concept of Freedom Through Forgiveness-we will get ourselves out of the choppy waters of resentment and anger and we will begin to sail much more smoothly through our lives.

One of the important things to remember in Learning to Forgive Like God is that WE have memories of the offense-and God does not.  This doesn't mean that we should block the memories of the event we are forgiving from our mind, that will only harbor infectious wounds and allow tiny micro-grudges to block healing.  Instead, we must use these memories as gauges to test our forgiveness levels on a consistent basis.  After all, removing the emotional element from the memory is what creates Forgiveness in a Kinetic capacity.

As you move through your practice of Kinetic Forgiveness-you must often reflect backwards (which is opposite of what most techniques teach, I know)--but this is the way to keep the forgiveness alive.  You must practice detaching the emotion from the memory conciously with God's help daily until the time when you call up the memory and there is no negative emotion that comes up with it.  This is how you KNOW that you have FORGIVEN.  And this WILL happen-but like every other concious practice of self-evolution-IT TAKES TIME AND REPETITION to get it right.

Compassion is at the forefront of every successful forgiveness practice.  Without compassion, you will block God's message to you about how the other person in the situation felt or was going through at the time of the event.  And by blocking that-you block forgiveness.  This is how forgiveness becomes hollow, stagnant and dead-and this is when forgiveness is just dialog in your mind and on your tongue, but has absolutely NO healing power for your life whatsoever.

I am not saying these things to you to bring you down, or to make you feel badly.  I am saying these things because it is the messages given to me by God to bring to his children.  We pray so fervently for healing to take place in our lives-but when He answers us with something new and amazing like the practice of Kinetic Forgiveness, we must listen with our hearts and our ears.

The book, Kinetic Forgiveness is available now on my website and will be coming to Barnes & Noble, etc soon.  Coming soon to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and wherever books are sold.  Click HERE to get your copy today.

HAVE YOU REALLY FORGIVEN YOUR ENEMY?  If you become angry, hurt, anxious or troubled when you call up the memory of the event-and that emotion is toward the individual that you believe caused it, then you haven't truly forgiven them and your life is NOT healing from the negative experience.  Find FREEDOM from the pain of resentment today and pick up YOUR copy of Kinetic Forgiveness.  Healing Power is at your fingertips-all you have to do is reach out.