Notes from the Northland: January 2012

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

What is your Destiny?

What is your destiny? Why did God create you and for what purpose are you here? Where do you find your completion and your fulfillment?

You will not find the answer to these needs in your ministry, job, or social status. Your completion is not found in any human relationship, and your fulfillment is not found in your work, how much you have, how much you are recognized, or how much you achieve.

Your destiny, your completion, and your fulfillment are found in Jesus! You were not created for yourself or your own pleasure. You we were made for Jesus and His pleasure. You are complete in Him! Your fulfillment is to know Him, walk with Him, fellowship with Him, delight in Him, enjoy Him, love Him, and serve Him. To have Him is to have the highest, the greatest, the wisest, the purest, and the best.

What a glorious, wondrous, marvelous destiny God has purposed, planned, and provided for you in Jesus.

“In Christ alone is the fulfillment of high destiny” J. Sidlow Baxter

~meet me in the meadow

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Happy Birthday to me!!

Delia and I head up the north shore for my birthday and

have lunch at "The Lighthouse at Emily's"

Who does not love the North Shore in any season?

The Edna G. in Two Harbors

Two Harbor's Lighthouse and a Crusader's boat replica!

So strange to be up the shore in dead of winter

and there is no snow!

I had a great birthday!!

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Happy Saturday!!

Went to Ashley's 4th Grade Basketball Game

Ashley and her best friend Hannah

Alex and Grandma Cindy playing with her new
iPhone 4!

Out to lunch~

Hannah, Sue Sue, Ashley and Alex

Best Friends ~Susan and Delia

These 2 girls had us laughing during lunch~

I interviewed them and Grandma Cindy

did a video of it! Now they are watching it.

I love fun little girls!
Hope they can stay friends as long as Delia and I!!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Everything You Need

Are you hoping that a change in circumstances will bring a change in your attitude? If so, you are in prison, and you need to learn a secret of traveling light. What you have in your Shepherd is greater than what you don’t have in life.

May I meddle for a moment? What is the one thing separating you from joy? How do you fill in this blank: “I will be happy when ________________”? When I am healed. When I am promoted. When I am married. When I am single. When I am rich. How would you finish that statement?

Now, with your answer firmly in mind, answer this. If your ship never comes in, if your dream never comes true, if the situation never changes, could you be happy? If not, then you are sleeping in the cold cell of discontent. You are in prison. And you need to know what you have in your Shepherd.

You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need.