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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Currently: Devotion

Devotion - Newsbooys

All my world
All I've lost
The wrecks I've made here
The lives it cost
Your hand restores
Your words make whole
With all my soul
I thank You
I owe You
All my

Devotion
All that I have to give
Here's my devotion
You're all that it means to live

All my past
My tainted name
You stole its legacy
Of pride and shame
You're all I love
You're all I fear
I'm drawing near
To face You
To know You
To show You

Devotion
All that I have to give
Here's my devotion
You're all that it means to live

You found me
In a shallow grave
You dragged me out from beneath it all
You healed me
Saved me
In the nick of time
Your perfect time
You found me (found me)
In a shallow grave (in a shallow grave)
You called me out from beneath it all
You touched me (touched me)
Saved me (saved me)
In the nick of time
In Your perfect time

I devote all I have to You
I devote all that You've made new
All You restored that day You bled
All that You brought back from the dead

Devotion (You're all...)
You're all that I have to give
You're all that it means to live
Here's my devotion, my devotion
All that it means to live (You're all that it means to live)

My Lord
My devotion



Monday, December 14, 2009

I Get It

Ever since I became a teen mom, I was driven by this need. To have a normal, happy life like "everybody else." Maybe because I was ashamed of my mistake, or maybe because I never really fit in.  Whatever the case, I worked and strived and toiled to attain what I thought happiness should look like--a happy marriage, and happy children, living in a happy little home with a storybook ending. Unfortunately, the harder I have tried to make that dream a reality, the worse things seemed to get. Life has unraveled at the seems and I am beginning to realize that my goals in their present form will never be realized. Forcing a square peg through a round opening, I have hurt myself the people I was trying to protect. It is a startling realization--finding out your efforts and sacrifices are the very enemies of your life and loved ones. It causes you to question everything you believe. Struggle exposes our faulty belief systems... It has taken 15 solid years of struggle for me to figure this out.  I give up on my way.  I was wrong, and I am sorry. 

So now it is back to the drawing board.  God, what do You want me to do?


Sunday, December 06, 2009

Trust - Kristene Meuller

 
 
It's the sweetest thing
To trust you
Just to know
You got everything under control

It's the sweetest thing
To trust you
Just to know
You got everything

And You are making me a mountain
Making me a mountain
That cannot be shaken

Well You are making me a mountain
Making me a mountain
That cannot be moved

High up on a rock
Looking out at the horizon
Watching as the storm rolls in
Wondering if my heart will survive it

As the waves crash all around me
And can't remember what it feels like to be free

I know You're making me a mountain
Making me a mountain
That cannot be shaken

Oh You are making me a mountain
Making me a mountain
That cannot be moved

You say, I've got you my baby
I've got you
It's quite the mess you're in
But it's nothing Love can't fix

So sit here upon my shoulders
And watch as it all unwinds

You are making me a mountain
Making me a mountain
That cannot be shaken

I know You're making me a mountain
Making me a mountain
That cannot be moved
setup


Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Destiny By Marion 3

 "Destiny"  By Marion Bradish

 

 

I finally am understanding... who I am.  I like me.  It only took 31 years.  Hope is on the horizon... .. ...

 

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Currently: Divorce Care: Hope, Help, and Healing During and After Your Divorce

 Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God's righteousness doesn't grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.

James 1: 19-21 MSG

 

Facing Your Anger

Divorce Care By Steve Grissom & Kathy Leonard

 

WHEN IS ANGER A SIN? - Day 62

If God says be angry but not to sin,how do you know when your anger has crossed the line of sin?

Anger is sinful when it rises up quickly, taking over rational thought.  Ecclesiastes 7:9 says, "Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools."

Betsy says, "I saw his car, and I took a big rock and i smashed it through the windshield, and that was just a release of the anger.  It was humiliating.  It was a big mistake.  I shouldn't have done that."

 

LET IT OUT - Day 63

"It's o.k. to be angry at God when you've been divorced," says Dr. Myles Munroe.  "Go to God.  Shout at Him.  Tell Him you hate it...  God wants you to tell Him how you feel so lonely and how you got the bad end of the deal.  Lock yourself up in your bedroom and scream at God.  You've got to let it out."

This deliberate act of expressing anger in a safe place should be done in private, just between you and God....

It may help to have a regularly scheduled time when you close the door and release your anger in shouts and tears.  This will help you train yourself to express anger in appropriate times and in appropriate places; the best time is not when you are immediately reacting to someone's words or actions.  As weeks and months go by, and you have spent regular time with God expressing your emotions, you will find that the worst of your anger has been effectively spent.

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Much of this is a common sense refresher...  But I must say, common sense has a way of going out the window when passions rise.  I appreciate the advice about training ourselves to express anger appropriately.  Training is a concept that is becoming more real to me since I began running long distance.  It is encouraging to know that you can start out pathetically out of shape and with consistent effort it becomes easier.  Thank God, good things, like expressing anger appropriately, becomes more natural  as we diligently press on and allow the Lord to train us in His ways...

 

 



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