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Ordinary People~Extraordinary Things and The Roses

February 25, 2015advice for parents, Christian encouragement, encouragement for mom, Love one another, motherhood, Parenting, simple spiritual lessons, Spiritual Encouragement, UncategorizedAbba Father, Biblical lesson, Christian encouragement, christian encouragement for moms, encouragement for moms, Parenting, raising children, simple spiritual lesson, spiritual encouragement, Unconditional loveT.W. Allgaier

Remember:

Acts 17:24-25 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

And He uses “Ordinary people to do Extraordinary Things”

We might be shoveling the snow from the neighbor’s driveway without pay, giving the waitress a kind word and a nice tip, establishing a friendship with a the lonely second grader that doesn’t seem to have any friends…all of those things and many more can help all of us to understand that God indeed uses us. Continue reading Ordinary People~Extraordinary Things and The Roses →

Ordinary People~Extraordinary Things

February 23, 2015advice for parents, Christian encouragement, encouragement for mom, simple spiritual lessons, Spiritual Encouragement, UncategorizedAbba Father, Biblical lesson, christian encouragement for moms, Parenting, raising children, simple spiritual lessonT.W. Allgaier

I use to tell my kids this when they were growing up: “I don’t care what career you have when you grow up as long as you love God and let Him love others through you.”

They heard it a lot. And I meant it because I struggled for years with “am I doing enough?” I chose to believe that unless I was in a tropical rainforest somewhere as a missionary, I was not doing “enough” for God.

But God uses “Ordinary people to do Extraordinary things.”

Check out the people from the Bible and how the Father used them!! I will start with Abraham, Noah, David…Mary! The list never stops!

But, first things first….Knowing that God loves us without condition. Unless we understand that it doesn’t matter what we DO or what we DON’T do…God still loves us; we will struggle for the rest of our lives. I believe that is the most important thing we can ever teach our children.

Always remembering that it is their choice….we cannot make them believe that….but we must do all we can do to teach it and model it.

Henry Blackaby (www.blackaby.net) has a course that my husband I took over 20 years ago entitled “Experiencing God”. We were taught that God was at work all around us and we just got to join Him wherever that was if we chose to.

That is the kicker….He doesn’t need us folks. We get to be a part of His work if we join Him and we are blessed. He will use someone else if we don’t participate…

Paul said this in Acts 17:24-25 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

So what can we teach our children? To love those that we come in contact with…getting to know God’s character and who His and allowing Him to live “in us” is what it is all about. It will carry us through our entire life, no matter our career choice.

I will continue this on Wednesday….keep an open mind and an open heart…

And remember,

“God uses Ordinary people to do Extraordinary things”

~Be Blessed

IN CHRIST ALONE

TSA

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Garbage In….Garbage Out!

February 18, 2015advice for parents, encouragement for mom, mom, mom of toddlers, motherhood, new moms, Parentingadvice for moms, children, encouragement for moms, garbage, music, new homeschooling mom, Parenting, raising children, teens, television, video gamesT.W. Allgaier

Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.”

Children are impressionable. I promise.

I will never forget my love for watching soap operas as a young mom. I kept them on during the daytime hours. The boys were small and as I changed diapers, gave baths, did laundry, dishes, dusting, lunch, dinner…..I kept the television on. After all, the boys were little and did not pay attention, right?

Wrong! Continue reading Garbage In….Garbage Out! →