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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", Page: 190..1

We could clearly see (thanks to this active baby) that she is a girl. She is healthy and moving! Her name will be Laomai Petra Cherry. Laomai (Lay -oh- may) is Hebrew for spiritual healing. Petra is from Matthew 16:18 where Jesus says,"upon this rock I will build my church (the rock,"Petra," is Him referring to His being the son of God). Petra is also my paternal grandmother's middle name. She is due March 1st. Denbigh was screaming and crying. He actually hasn't stopped yet. It is quite endearing. Everyone in the family is excited. My mom is going nuts! Denbigh's mom is going nuts! I am excited about pink! Decorate!!!!! We must decorate! Now that you have a name, please continue to pray for Laomai as she develops, and that God would place an anointing on her life.

In 2 short days, Denbigh and I migrated through Hays, Travis, McClennan, and Bosque counties. In the span of forty-eight hours, I felt the high and low of my existence. Let me lay out for you what I experienced. Picture it, Monday 12 p.m. in Meridian, Texas. Meridian is your typical small town- quaint and filled with historic old buildings. Denbigh fell in love with this old run down Bed & Breakfast. Entering the scene- my dad. Imagine an incredibly handsome, well-aged, older gentleman who is part Denbigh Cherry and part John Wayne. I guess that would look like a gun toting teddy bear. We eat at Zapata's for some Excellent Mexican cuisine. I give them four gold stars. Leaving there we see a car we recognize. It is my maternal grandmother who has pretty much disowned our family since my grandfather died a few years ago. My husband thinks it will be fun to force our way into her life and take some pictures with her. She acts like nothing has ever happened and everyone has been a...

First, let me say that there is nothing clandestine about what our skanky Miss Victoria is doing. I see it on CNN.com with advertisements in bras and underwear. I write them a letter and quit going. I see it on MSN and in pretty much every news magazine and paper I pick up. It's nasty. Why would any respectable publication want to mingle with something of their quality? A few years ago I got really convicted about shopping there because I heard countless tales from my Christian friends who have husbands who are attacked by their publication & ads. There is nothing discrete about them. They flaunt nudity and incite lust in public places. Yesterday I was moved to a new level of incense! I went into the mall and in all their big open windows were mannequins in disturbing poses wearing thong underwear and tiny bras. I want to complain to everyone I know. I would NEVER take my child to a place like that. I don't even want to take my husband. Christian men get attacked enough. T...

"Tutto fumo e niente arrosto" is the Italian equivalent to the American saying, "All smoke, no fire." Do you ever ask yourself if your current situation is what God has intended for you? I would almost always say that this is not what God has for you. It isn't because of our spouse, children, parent, friend. It is because we have not taken hold of what God has already laid out for us to equip ourselves with. We desperately try to do everything in the power of our flesh. The problem, we need "mas fuego." More fire! We cannot manipulate or contrive this fire by any human means. It is a result of asking and asking again to be able to receive. In Romans chapter 15 Paul asks for prayer for protection from the unbelievers and acceptance from the believers. John Piper explains that this means that, "By prayer, the wills of unbelievers can be restrained from murder, and the wills of believers can be constrained to receive his gift." Our wills must ...

In the day to day of my life I experience one thing repeatedly. It happens to me as a pastor's wife, a counselor, and friend. I am sold out and desperate to help people in need find the God who offers them complete wholeness. I find that people are always seeking this. When they are in deep need they will call you 15 times a day and want to meet and find out what God is saying to their situation. I take my part of this relationship seriously. I say what I am told to say. I write what I am told to write. I love where I am told to love. People, however, rarely want what God is saying to them and when they feel like they get a hold on their situation they will throw you out with last week's trash. They don't answer your concerns. They could care less that you have spent hours a day listening, counseling, praying. I have become deeply involved with their welfare. As I was telling God my heartache today, He made me realize I was just being allowed to see a glimpse of what He get...

Are you in such a place of being lukewarm that another believer has to give, serve, or speak to make up for you not doing what you are called to do? from A.W.Tozer Revival: Poured-out Devotion Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such men in esteem; because for the work of Christ he came close to death, not regarding his life, to supply what was lacking in your service toward me. --Philippians 2:29-30 That many Christians in our day are lukewarm and somnolent will not be denied by anyone with an anointed eye, but the cure is not to stir them up to a frenzy of activity. That would be but to take them out of one error and into another. What we need is a zealous hunger for God, an avid thirst after righteousness, a pain-filled longing to be Christlike and holy. We need a zeal that is loving, self-effacing and lowly. No other kind will do. That pure love for God and men which expresses itself in a burning desire to advance God's glory and leads to poured-out ...