uplift to the next level

Have you ever been in a place where all you hear is people really been nasty in a converastion about someone you know?

Gossip can be really mean, but when it gets past that, and gets nasty, it's really hard to stick up for that person.
We're not all perfect, we all have flaws, but when we don't see our weakness and see it in other people we can get really down about your situation.
Worse still if people turn a blind eye to it.
Ignore the elephant in the room.
So what can we do when our backs are against the wall?
What if we're wanting that perfect person coming in to ''save the day''?
What if everything is crumbling around us and everything is going down hill?
Perhaps you see it in your own life?
How can we turn that around?
First we make up our mind to be mindful of others, and keep short accounts, you might think'' oh that person know's I'm just having them on'' or ''I really love that person so he know's I'm just kidding''
Kidding and exagerating is a form of lying.

All it takes is someone to believe what we said and we start to believe it ourselves.

God knows that person and he knows the hurt it causes.
We can lift people up to the next level, we can acutally raise the bar.
It might be really hard to do that in your work, even in your own home, or people that you know.
We need to start somewhere.
Work places can be really tough, and hard, to make a difference in.
Trust me, it's hard to make your mark in places.
And going around pleasing people can be easy, but it can be hard for you.
So when we see someone doing a good job we need to tell them.
It's easy isn't to agree with wrong things if it's constantly said about.
But what stays in our heads the right or the wrong?
Abuse is crimpling I know, because I've been there.
However you can change it, you can speak up for yourself, or you can make a move to change it.
Once you see someone who needs encouragement it will seep into them like sunlight on a rainy day.
Or even a hello or something encouraging helps.
We don't need to be the hero that saves the day, we just need to be there for people.
Chloe

verge of a miricule

Hi there,
How's your day going?
I have to say that I'm enjoying the spring, it's lovely.
I was just thinking of my life when I was young, the  trees were big, and the blossom on the trees seemed to go on flowering forever and ever.
Perhaps you're looking back at your life, perhaps you have lost things in your life that seem not to heal, or you're just counting the things in your day that have just gone wrong, and want something to go right for a change.
Perhaps you know that something has changed in you, but you just don't know what.
Lately I've been overcome by anxiety, I find myself crying in bed for no reason, I've had people put things in my mind that shouldn't be in there, or people don't know how to ''handle'' me.
Each day is different, it's not like yesterday.
In this song, of Rich Mullins he sums it up just nicely.
You don't have to get it all right to be in God's presence.
You might have sleepiness nights, just hold onto Jesus, if you don't know if he can be trusted, he knows your hurt you have.
God is always there, for those times that you don't know what you're holding on to.
Jesus calms the fear inside of you, he makes sure that you're more thank OK, that you're doing more than alright, he makes the time, it's up to use to see how we use it.
He knows that we try our best, and he knows the pain of death, he knows the pain of what you have.
He knows the worry when people say not to worry.
God is there all the time, he knows that you're standing on a verge of a miracle.
He knows the heart that you have, he watches over your coming, you going out, you coming back home.
He knows the cost it has on your life.
You're on a verge of a miracle, when you pray, today, stand on that verge and believe for something good. tell your heart to believe again.
Nothing is a complete right off with God, nothing is completely wrong in him.
Don't beat yourself up, trust in God, he can be trusted no matter on how fragile it seems.
God is love.
Chloe

It's who you are

I don't know if you remember the tv show ''Who do you think you are?''
It was an english  geneology program.

Sometimes it's hard to get traction, and sometimes it takes a while to get to where you want to be.
This time it came to me late at night.
I just broke, all the things that I was thinking about over the years haven't really come of anything.
I don't know if i'm doing a good job at my new one, do I go back to the things I know how to do?
Do I completely go down a new road.
So when we find it hard to trust God, we find it hard just to see what we should do.
I've wanted to do so much, and forgive me if I'm complaning, but I'm finding as I get on in years, I feel more and emptier.
The excitment in life goes a bit.
So it's time to go back to why I  feel the way I do.
Now it's important not to rely on feelings,  because they are feeling.
But if you are feeling dry, because you haven't gone back to church, or perhaps you can't at the moment. Read the bible, drink it in.
And God always is there, and if he isn't presesnt in your life, pray for him to show you where he is.
We pray for God's will to happen, but what if we need to pray into that will?
Money can only buy so many things, but after that is all used up, what happens?
Pray for the things that matter to you, pray for God to be in your day, in the simple things, say it out loud, ''because my God lives, I can face tomorrow'' when right now you're probably, wondering what tomorrow will bring.
So that's my bit for today,  if your'e feeling shaky, just believe in today.
God is a good, good father.
You can trust him with everything.
CHLOE

what have you got in your hand?

Hi there,
It's wet here and sometimes it's hard to see  things on the bright side when it's spring.
And sometimes it's so easy just to close up shop and just hide.
However sometimes you get an idea about you could do with what is in your hand.
I heard on the radio, about a guy from hastings, Flaxmere who is a barber and offering free hair cuts to the homeless.
Not giving them money, or the next short termed thing, but something a bit bigger.
And I like that.
God sees us, not just as people, not just a small grain of sand on a beach, and sometimes it's hype, and sometimes when that hype dies down you can see the things that really are.
Sometimes it is lonely, out there and if you're lonely on the road, just look for someway of reaching out.
If you're tired, and you don't know, or where to start, just look up.
What was Jesus?
He wasn't just God's son, he was a teacher, a teacher to fishermen, he was a builder, a person who makes chair and tables.
And sometimes it's easy just to walk past and just carry onto the next thing.
Jesus took time in his every day to reach out to others, to those people in the staff room doing the puzzles in the paper, to the lonely person on the street, to the kids who don't have any shoes to wear to school.
We are all God's kids, and we have his seal on us, to go out and impact people for good.
Don't be so worried about what other people are doing, just see what's in your hand, and what you could do.
And do it, Gidoen  was the least in his family, but yet God raised him up to take on the biggest army in biblical times.
Hannah believed God for a child and had Samuel, who corrected Eli about his sons, so that they can turn back and take the better road.
My friend if you're wondering if you're too far down the beaten track, you can come home.
God never leaves us just out of reach.
If you're wondering if no one has noticed about what you do, or if anything else counts.
Just look up.
If you'r wonder if you're just another person doing a mundaine thing, just keep going.
If you're struggling with believing God, just think of this.
If he didn't believe you could do it, he wouldn't ask you to it.
So just keep working on that promise, that he's called you do the thing that only you could do.
God is love, and he is there.
Well that's all I have for today.
Chloe