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August 2009

God Cares

by BlondieWrites on August 31, 2009

When you feel unloved and unwanted,
When you think that no one cares
Know in your heart, Friend
God does.

When you feel that things said and done
are not forgiveable,
That your guilt and burden is yours alone,
Know in your heart, Friend
God heals.

When you feel that no one can see past the hurt,
that no one knows the pain, the heartache,
When you think that it’s all hidden and you’re
all alone,
Open your eyes and see, Friend
God knows.

When you feel you’re at the bottom, that no
one can reach you and bring you back up again,
When you think there’s no more hope,
Just reach out your hand, Friend
God is there.

When you feel like there’s no one that can
understand, that no one would want you,
When you think you’re destined to be alone,
Don’t give up, Friend
God’s got a plan.

When the day is done, and you feel like you’ve
no place to call home,
When you’ve traveled far, and you need to rest,
Just hold out your hand, Friend
God’s leading you.

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Let it Go

by BlondieWrites on August 31, 2009

Most of us have heard the expression, “let it go”. Three simple words…

Life happens. Jobs come and go, girlfriends and boyfriends come and go, people we thought were our friends ignore us, spouses don’t trust each other with opposite gender friends, you run out of chocolate….

We have two choices basically when life happens. We can cry and pout over stuff, or we can just let it go.

Anyone that can just walk away from you isn’t someone you need in your life. They are no longer the person you used to know. The person you knew died somewhere. This new person that walked away from you isn’t who they used to be. They aren’t trustworthy, they aren’t reliable, they aren’t responsible. Let them walk! Don’t go after them. You don’t need them! Let them go!

Don’t waste your time talking to them or trying to talk to them. Don’t call or email or IM or text. Leave them alone! THEY walked away from you. If that’s what they think of you after years of a friendship, who needs them? Let them go! They chose to walk, let them walk!

God is good! He never tied your life and future to someone who would walk away from you.

Sometimes a person will keep you dangling by a thread… having already walked away but they want to keep you around for when they need something from you, to use you. Open your eyes! If someone is using you, and they don’t want anything to do with you unless they need something, then cut the thread! Let them go! If they no longer talk to you the way they used to, if they no longer have time for you the way they used to, if they no longer act the same towards you as they used to, then let them go! No one likes to be used. Just cut the thread and YOU walk away.

Let them go…. they aren’t the person they used to be. They went from a loving and caring person to someone that you don’t know anymore. Stop trying to hang onto them. They’re already gone. Stop holding onto the past. So you had a wonderful past together… what does that matter now? Where are they now? When’s the last time they talked to you like a friend? When’s the last time they were there for you when YOU needed THEM? And how many times over the years were YOU there for THEM? Exactly… you were always there for them, helping them, listening to them, praying for them… even helping them pay their rent, have food to eat, pay fines, pay their car note, pay their insurance, their bills, their phone… and what does all of that get you? They ignored you for months, they said to heck with you and the friendship. They used you, and you were too blind to even see or want to see it.

Let them go! You have a wonderful and happy life waiting once you realize that you cannot hold onto someone who just plain doesn’t care about you. They never really did! If they don’t want you (and they don’t or they wouldn’t have walked away) then you don’t need them.

Let them go… and move on.. have a life with friends who truly care about you, not just someone who wants you around to use you and then ignore you. Let’s say it together….. LET IT GO!

Below is something that was sent to me about three years ago. This pretty much sums it up.

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There are people who can walk away from you.

And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don’t want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you, let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.

The bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. “For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us.” — [1 John 2:19]

People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can’t make them stay.

Let them go.

And it doesn’t mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in the story is over. And you’ve got to know when people’s part in your story is over so that you don’t keep trying to raise the dead.

You’ve got to know when it’s dead.

You’ve got to know when it’s over. Let me tell you something. I’ve got the gift of good-bye. It’s the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It’s not that I’m hateful, it’s that I’m faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He’ll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don’t need it.

Stop begging people to stay.

Let them go!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn’t belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to……

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ……

LET IT GO!!!

If someone can’t treat you right, love you back, and see your worth…..

LET IT GO!!!

If someone has angered you ……..

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge……

LET IT GO!!!

If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction……

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents

LET IT GO!!!

If you have a bad attitude…….

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better……

LET IT GO!!!

If you’re stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him……

LET IT GO!!!

If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship…….

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep trying to help someone who won’t even try to help themselves……

LET IT GO!!!

If you’re feeling depressed and stressed ………

LET IT GO!!!

If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying “take your hands off of it,” then you need to……

LET IT GO!!!

Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing for your life!!!

LET IT GO!!!

Get right or get left .. think about it, and then …

LET IT GO!!!

The battle is the Lord’s!

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How to Recognize a Friend

by BlondieWrites on August 30, 2009

How to Recognize a Friend
Is the Person Who Says They are Your Friend Really a Friend?

This is something I wrote back in May of 2007.

Proverbs 18:24 says, “A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”

Over the course of our lives, we run into an untold amount of people. Some people boast of the number of friends they have, wearing the number like a prized badge on their clothing. But what is a friend really?

A friend isn’t someone that we just put a name to a face and know a few details about. That’s an acquaintance, someone that we know of, but we don’t really know. It’s important to clarify the difference in a friend and an acquaintance because the two are very different. To have an acquaintance turn into a friend would be wonderful. But to have a friend become only an acquaintance would be a heartbreaking loss.

So how do we know who is a friend? How do we recognize them? How does a friend stand out from the throng of people that call themselves our friend, but yet really have no clue as to what a friend really is?

Friends aren’t clones of each other. They disagree on things. They don’t always see eye to eye on issues. They might have different religious beliefs. They might be years apart in age or they might be the same age. They might come from totally different backgrounds or lifestyles. So what binds them together in such a way that they become friends?

Someone who is a friend puts their friend first. They don’t consider themselves when caring for their friend. They think of the welfare and well being of their friend above their own needs. A friend listens and they encourage their friend to talk if they want to talk, and they are just there when no words are said or needed. They give new meaning to caring, because they don’t talk about caring for someone, they show it and practice it.

A friend doesn’t remind their friend of their past or how many times they failed and messed up. A friend reminds their friend that they are special and that they are loved, as they are, even when the friend doesn’t feel so loved or special. A friend doesn’t judge their friend, but neither do they tell them a wrong is right or okay. And most of all, a friend often knows their friend as well or better than the friend knows themselves.

Someone who isn’t our friend will walk away when the storms of life hit. In fact, they will not just walk away but rather run away as fast as they can. They don’t want to hear about our problems and they don’t want to be burdened with us. A friend won’t run away, they won’t turn their backs when we are at our worst, and they won’t leave us when they find out ugly details about our past. Someone who isn’t our friend will turn away in a heartbeat, and no doubt blame you for their turning away.

Someone who isn’t really a friend cannot possibly understand you because they don’t know you. Sure, they might know your name and a few details about you. But they don’t know you. A friend knows you, they understand you, and they care for you like no one else does.

As time moves on, a friend becomes more than a friend, the friend turns into family, someone that you simply cannot imagine your life without. They do indeed stick closer than a brother (or sister), they become a part of you. The idea of them not being a part of your life is unimaginable. And how did they become such a meaningful part of your life? They were a friend, they showed themselves friendly, and the friend became family.

When a person boasts of having so many friends, an untold number of friends, it doesn’t impress me because they don’t obviously know what a friend is. When a person is honored and blessed to call someone their friend, that does impress me, because that person knows what it’s all about.

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Closed Doors

by BlondieWrites on August 29, 2009

Today, I saw a passage about closed doors and it really made me think… it really hit home with me because of some personal things I had been going through recently.

In the past few months, I had suddently and unexpectedly been met with a lot of closed doors, and I found myself questioning God as to why so much in my life was suddenly changing. I lost a best friend, my income dropped drastically, I was under a lot of stress about money and health issues. It seemed that everywhere I would turn, every door that had previously been open to me was closing. And I made things worse on myself because I wanted to keep one door open. I had the idea that I knew what I needed more than God knew. Oh how wrong I was!

I found myself lost, not knowing which way to go. Instead of looking for the open door and just trusting in God that He knew what He doing, I fell into a deep depression. Somewhere in that darkness, my soul cried out to God to wash it all away and to just cleanse my spirit. And He did, just like that… almost instantly. All He was waiting for was for me to ask Him. Funny now how simple it was. Where pain and hurt was, where sorrow was, happiness and joy live again.

Here’s the thing that we need to realize and remember. God opens doors in our lives. He closes doors in our lives. Those open and closed doors can be to things like a job, friends, financial success, a home, where we live, etc. Sometimes a door is all wrong for us.. or maybe it was right at one time for us and things changed and now it’s wrong for us. Sometimes where we live isn’t right for us anymore and God will close doors to move us. Sometimes a friend we have had for years changes so much and is no longer right for us and God will close the door to that friendship. Sometimes a boyfriend or girlfriend isn’t who God wants us to marry and He will close the door to the relationship and opens a door to meet the one He wants us to be with. God might cause us not to get a promotion on one job so that He can lead us to an even better job. He might cause an income to dry up on one work at home job in order to open the door to what He is wanting us to do.

He brings people into our lives for various lengths of time.. sometimes maybe for an hour, maybe four years, maybe a lifetime.. and then He closes the door to them forever. He might allow us to lose a home to bad weather in order to give us the new home He wants us to have where He wants us to have it. He might cause us to lose our job on one side of the country in order to open the door to a job on the opposite side of the coast. And He might even lead two people into a chatroom on AOL to find each other as friends and later marry, to finally be happy with someone (hey, it happened to me).

So the next time you find God closing doors on you, look for the open door. And know that when God closes doors in our lives, it will sometimes hurt. After all, we are human. But in all of this, there’s an open door, and everything will work out.

We need to learn to praise the Lord as much for a closed door as we do an open door. The reason God closes doors is because He has not prepared anything over there for us. If he didn’t close the wrong door, we would never find the right door.

God directs our path through the closing and opening of doors. Once a door closes, it forces you to change your course. Another door closes, it forces you to change your course again. Then, finally, you find the open door and you walk right into your blessing.

The Lord directs our paths through the opening and closing of doors, but often instead of praising him for the closed door (which keeps us out of trouble), we get upset because we didn’t get what we wanted and/or we think we know better than God what we need.

You have an ever-present help in the time of trouble that is always standing guard. Because He walks ahead of you. He can spot trouble down the road and set up a roadblock or detour accordingly. But through our lack of wisdom, we try to tear down the roadblocks or push aside the detour sign. Then the
minute we get into trouble, we start crying, “Lord, how could You have done this to me?” or “Lord, why did you let this happen to me?”

We have got to realize that the closed door can be a blessing. Didn’t He say that no good thing would He withhold from them that love Him?

If you get terminated from your job, praise God for the new opportunities that will manifest themselves. It might be another job, it might be school.

If that man or woman won’t return your call, it might not be them, it might be the Lord setting up a roadblock (just let it go). Maybe they would only use you or hurt you, and God is sending you someone worthy of your love.

One time, a person had a bank they had been in business with for many years tell them “No!” to a $10,000 loan. The Lord put in their spirit to call another bank. That bank gave them $40,000 at a lower interest rate than the first bank was offering.

We can sometimes trap ourselves in doubt and discouragement through judging by appearances. Be grateful for the many times our Father has closed doors to us just to open them in the most unexpected places.

The Lord won’t always say in spoken words: “Go to the left, now to the right” …sometimes He will just close the doors that are wrong for you. Just follow Him.

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Who Am I, Casting Crowns

by BlondieWrites on August 28, 2009

This is one of the most inspirational videos I have ever seen. It’s performed by the Oslo UPC Youth Group to the song, Who Am I, by Casting Crowns. For something so simple, it carries THE most powerful message. Don’t just watch it, share it!

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God Heals Hearts

by BlondieWrites on August 27, 2009

Hearts get broken. It’s one of the things that we face in life. Whether our hearts are broken by the loss of a loved one through death, a breakup with a boyfriend or girlfriend, a marriage shattered by cheating, a divorce, the loss of a friend… a broken heart hurts. Where once was a heart filled with joy and love is a heart that is torn, shattered, broken, in dispair. Then we are left wondering how to go on, what to do, how to make it through each day.

There is no doubt that a broken heart leaves a person also broken. Often after a broken heart, we don’t want to try again, we don’t want to have a reason to go on, we see only more hurt in the future if we trust again or open our hearts up again. Often we just give up. Our lives become not living, but a mere existance.

Having a broken heart isn’t the end, though. It doesn’t mean life is over. It does mean hurt, yes. It does mean pain, yes. Loss and grief do hurt! But I am here to tell you that there is hope, there is reason to go on, there is reason to start over, there is reason to live and be happy again.

God heals hearts! He doesn’t promise us we won’t go through pain and grief and sorrow. But He does promise to never leave us. A broken heart can be mended, and it can be healed. God is the Great Healer. He can fill our hearts again with joy and laughter and happiness. We just have to open up to Him and let Him in. And where He is, there will also Love be.

When the trials of life get us down, we have somewhere to turn. We can turn to God. When we put our hearts out there loving and caring, and our hearts get broken, God is there to put us back together again, to heal us, to make us whole again.

This life isn’t perfect. And things are going to happen that tear at our hearts. There is just no getting away from that in this life. Accidents happen, death calls, people leave us, people use us, people hurt us… hearts get broken. But if we let God lead us, if we trust in God, if we allow Him to heal us, He will heal our hearts.

I know that God heals hearts, because He has healed mine. I didn’t do it. No human did it. God healed my heart and he will heal yours too. Just let Him in.

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