Happy Easter

Happy Easter to you and your family!

I am so thankful that God loved me enough to send His son Jesus Christ to suffer a cruel death in payment for everything I have done that displeases God so that I can live eternally with Him. Christ came to earth as a man with flesh and bones, went through many of the same struggles as me and you but never gave in and never gave up. He was never swayed from His purpose and lived out a perfect life acceptable to God. He is the only one who has ever lived a life perfect and acceptable to God and that is why He gave His life and was crucified. He suffered rejection, pain, and sorrow but knew the love and will of His father. He went into heaven and presented His blood as the only perfect sacrifice for you and me. That is why He is the only way the truth and the life.

There is a lot if things to believe out there and I'm not sure where you stand but if you are not living for the eternal purpose, everything you are doing will one day go to waste and be forgotten One day this earth and everything living on it will be no more. One day we will meet our maker and we will hear either "Welcome in, well done!" or "Go away I never knew you"

It might sound silly to you. May be even you have heard it so much that you are numb to it, you agree with everything I have said but you are not living your life with passion. Christ died so that you can have life full of joy, peace, and love here on earth. I don't know about you but I have a burning desire within me everyday to live in this realm! Not everyday is perfect. Sure disappointment, rejection and pain will come and are a part of every one's life. Just remember that even Christ knew all of this, He understands and He cares for you. Although we may fail, Christ never fails. He wants a relationship with you everyday and every minute not just 30 minutes on Sunday. Don't just get involved with church, be the church! Open yourself to Him to be used everyday in someway as His representative. Let His love grow and come alive in you. Seek Him and His Kingdom and then all these things will be given to you.

So live today with passion and purpose and dream big. None of us are guaranteed the next second. Place your life in the hands of Jesus Christ who gave up everything for you.

May His love and power be yours today,

Heather

PS This has been a tough few months for us. Ian has been laid off for three months now. I have a lot to share but not enough energy to write them. In the last 2 months we lost Ian's aunt Marcia, his mother Lynelle, my aunt Gwendolyn and Uncle Jesse, my first cousin, sister and childhood best friend Jennifer and her baby Cassie.

God has been there with us through it all. There is an old hymn Through it All,
I've had many tears and sorrows,
I've had questions for tomorrow;
They've been times
I didn't know right from wrong,
But in every situation
God gave blessed consolation;
That my trials come
Only to make me strong.


Through it all, through it all,
Oh I've learned to trust in Jesus,
I've learned to trust in God.
Through it all, through it all
I've learned to depend on his Word.

I've been to lots of places
And I've seen a lot of faces
They've been times I felt so all alone
But in my lonely hours
Yes those precious lonely hours
Jesus let me know I was His own.

I thank God for the mountains
And I thank Him for the valleys
I thank Him for the storms
He brought me through
For if I'd never had a problem
I wouldn't know that
He could solve them
I'd never know what
Faith in God could do.


I close today with these songs Amazing Grace My Chains are Gone by Chris Tomlin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqJsBRFdrA0
and In Christ Alone by Travis Cotrell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvnpcKUrCo4

It is only through Christ that we are able to stand and praise God He has provided over and above our every need. He has blessed me with work, my health, my family and most of all my security in Him!

I'm remembering some old songs today even this one called The Lighthouse
There's a lighthouse on the hillside
That overlooks the sea
When I'm tossed it sends out a light
That I might see
And the light that shines in darkness now
Will safely lead me o'er
If it wasn't for the lighthouse
My ship would be no more

(Narrative)
It seems that everybody about us says
Tear that old lighthouse down
The big ships just don't pass this way anymore
So there's no use in standing around
Then my mind goes back to that one dark, stormy night
When just in time, I saw the light
Yes, it was the light form that old lighthouse
That stands up there on the hill

And I thank God for the lighthouse
I owe my life to Him
Jesus is the Lighthouse
And from the rocks of sin
He has shown a light around me
That I might clearly see
If it wasn't for the lighthouse
Tell me where would this ship be?

I thank God for the lighthouse
I owe my life to Him
Jesus is the Lighthouse
And from the rocks of sin
He has shown a light around me
That I might clearly see
If it wasn't for the lighthouse
Tell me where would this ship be?

And if it was not for the Lighthouse I would not have made it through the pain and suffering from scars of a battered past, the guilt and shame, being a single mother, rocky times in my marriage and the trials of being a mother today, grief and loss of loved ones, job loss, rejection from friends and family.

No matter what life throws at me or what is taken from me I can never be separated from the love that is from Christ Jesus my Lord!
What a reason to shout for joy!

Celebrating Easter He is Alive!

I am having some church up in here. He is Alive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0XXxs5b7rg&feature=related