Being gracious to people.

Hello there,
How's your day going?
Lately I've been talking about guarding your heart, and being a careful gardener to it.
About relationships, and what I've been learning.

So with that off my chest, I'm going to talk about being gracious to people and what that looks like.

Last night I talked to a friend from Christchurch, my friend Abigail, who is young and is learning to be a seamstress.
She always prays for me after our conversation, and it was a beautiful time we had together.
Abigail has the gift of being gracious, to people she has met and haven't met.
She is one amazing women of God.
In her prayer, she prayed that I will be a light to people I haven't met and and people who come across my path.

I want to stop there, because I think we too often, don't often think about,the people who come across our path.

If someone homeless came to you, and said they have no home, would you let them in your place?

I would.

I'd love to have this place our home an open home for people who just are plain tired of life.

That is my dream, one day is to have an open home, on a farm somewhere and let God find them to where they are at.

It takes courage to let someone into your world without judgement.
We keep in our little Christian huddles, afraid of living.

Now it's time for living to shed a few layers over the years.

And let yourself be you, allow yourself time to be you.

There's no rush to grow up, we're all growing up and changing.
We might look around us comparing ourselves to others.
I'm not married and my friends have babbies on the way, and that is wonderful, it's beauitful for them to be come mothers.

My call is different, and when others get it they will get it.
Sometimes we get caught up in the mundane.

We wake up, have coffee, read a bit of God's word, then go to work, we try to become pure, we come home, we relax we go to bed, and we do it all again.

We wait on God to move, and when he says move we're ready.
But what if we stumble, what if we fall?

What if people see us falling?
That is when we go to them and rescue them.

I was talking to my friend Hope about mental health and why isn't it taught in school, we have so many problems coming into schools.

We have the highest suicide rates in the world, why?

What is the problem?

We have people failing through the cracks.

We need to be gracious to these people, we are called to be carers of the earth.


Some of us have rain on our hearts, maybe it's a torrent, a huge down pour, and it just keeps coming.

And you're waiting for a bit of sunlight, a break in the weather.

Jesus is  your rescue story.

You might not want to hear that, you might not hear his voice, but you know he's there. He's the dude that we can trust in, that will never let us down, never let go, all what he says is true.

Trust in his amazing arms that hung on the cross, bloodied, and scared.
But he's not on the cross anymore.
Some times we live like he's still on the cross.

That was then Chloe, you might say, he's not with me anymore.

My friend, can I ask you to reconsider?
 to rethink.

I'd like to give you a picture

As much as I love my horse Wilson, he had to be broken in, he's about 18 years old now, so a well schooled horse.
but there was a time in his life, when he was a yearling, free.

but as humans came along, he had to trust them and be put under halter and saddle.

Now he doesn't bat an eye, when we tack him up.

I'm not a horse trainer, I just ride weekly, and it's taught me alot about life.

But you take a wild horse, one from the rangers in New Zealand.
one that's never seen a human, or contact. think about how a trainer would train those horses.
With kindness and working where they are at.
And that is how we need to treat others.
And be gracious to them.

That's me for today.
Chloe