Christ Heart! – JoJo

Grace!  So misunderstood. So foreign by our standards. A gift that we cannot comprehended.  No strings… no agenda… no effort to earn… simply free.  Grace cannot be understood by any record of merits and demerits. It cannot be held to patterns of buying, losing, earning, achieving, or manipulating, which is where most of us live…

I woke early this morning to admire the tree… the presents… and to ponder this holy day of our Saviors birth.  For some today it’s about presents, for some it’s about  lights and still others it’s about family.  As I look at the evergreen foliage I see a tree that stays alive even in the…

As I ponder, how I spend my day,  I wonder if God is happy with why I do what I do.  God is not concerned with what I do… but why I do it.  Often daily, he shares messages with me… such as this one.  He puts on my heart to share it with as…

I couldn’t take my eyes from them.  As I watched my grandkids play in the park I felt uneasy at the thought of them being lost or taken.  So much so that nothing else mattered at the time.  Them being with me and their safety was all that concerned me.  Then I thought of how…

The line from the movie was: “Seeing isn’t believing. Believing is seeing.”  As that hit me, my heart pondered, and the movie fell away.  When your faith becomes strong, you began to see Jesus in everyplace and everyone. During Jesus last moments, the lessons he gave us were some of the most important.  That is…

We tend to glamorize it.  We even make beautiful jewelry out of it.  We don’t want to face the truth.  The whip had metal, and bone, in the ends.  As Jesus was struck, flesh was torn away from his back… his sides… his neck.  This would continue until near death.  Our Saviors raw muscle, tendons,…