It is amazing how the creative ingenuity within us will spring forth into action causing us to develop ideas for making money when we are desperate. When things tend to be going along too well, we really don’t put our creative forces to work. What do you think would happen if you begin using your natural gifts and talents every day in a creative way? The bible says that your gifts will make room for you, but you must first use your gifts. What gifts do you have that you are not using?

Childhood Memories

We must never underestimate the impact we have on children. My 2^nd grade teacher, Mrs. Ladd once told me that I was a special little girl. Those words remained with me all my life. On the flip side, there are adults who verbally abuse children, making them feel unworthy and less of a person. We must remember that children grow up and they do remember you and how you made them feel, so before you fix your mouth to curse out, belittle, or criticize a child, just remember that your worlds could sink so deep that they go into the subconsciousness and cause the child to believe what you say, and thus bring it about.

The same is true of positive words. So knowing this, let’s continue to uplift our children, calling them great, wonderful, smart, delightful and pleasant girls and boys of God. Trust me, they remember your words.

Please share your own childhood experiences or experiences that you have had with children.

Forgiveness Does Not Mean Reconciling

I am reading a book called Beauty for Ashes by Joyce Meyer. In the book, the author talks about how she was sexually molested by her biological father from the age of seven up until she was 17. When she told her mother about it at eight years old, her mother chose to believe the father when he denied it, but when the mother came home early one day and walked in on her husband having sex with the daughter at the age of 14, she simply shut the door and walked out.

She turned her back on her daughter and allowed the incest to continue.

I also heard a lady on the Dr. Empowerment Blog Talk Radio Show talk about how she had been gang raped by three men. Both of these victims of horrific crimes chose to forgive their perpetuators. It made me realize that forgiveness is a choice that has nothing at all to do with the one who hurt you, but everything to do with you. When we forgive, we bless ourselves, our physical health and mental well-being. Forgiveness does not mean reconciliation. It does not mean acting as though nothing happened, but it does mean that we choose to give the situation to God without taking it back. We choose to not allow that bad situation to control us, dominate our minds, and/or cause guilt, shame, anger or bitterness. We choose to move on and release.

It is often difficult to forgive people when they have hurt us. It seems easier to just be angry with them. But we must realize that we are not hurting them because eventually, they forgive themselves whether you choose to forgive them or not. They go on and live their lives while we are still angry, causing our unforgiveness to turn to disease in our bodies.

Share your thoughts on forgiveness with our readers.

Causing Your Own Warfare

I once heard the following expression: “Every time I’ve been stabbed in the back, I find my own fingerprints on the knife!” In life we will experience good and bad, happiness and anger, sadness and joy, and failures and successes. It is all a part of life; but sometimes we cause our own problems with our mouth and our actions. Wisdom teaches how to act, what to say, and the right time to say it. So if you experience warfare as a result of something that YOU did or something that YOU said, don’t blame God and don’t blame the devil. Blame it on yourself. To be ill-mannered is to be unlearned and unwise. Ill manners are the outward expression of inward defects. Explain your thoughts to this.