Talents

      

 There is a parable in the New Testament about a master that gives his servants talents (money).  Two of the servants use the money wisely and gain a profit.  One servant is lazy and hides the talent.   The master becomes angry at the servant that hid

 

How often do we hide our talent?   Is it fear?  Is it laziness?

            I am very involved in my church.   GOD created me to fill certain roles that only I can fill.  I was fearfully and wonderfully made, knitted in my mother’s womb.    If I were to “hide” my talent from the church then I would not be living the life that GOD desires me to live.

         Think of it this way.   Our goal as Christians is to become more Christ-like.  Christ  served others and we should seek to do the same.    Here is a list of ways we can get involved into our church by serving.  

Lead a bible study

Help with kids

Sing with the choir

Usher

Help with Communion

Help with collecting the offering

Folding programs

Placing candles into candle holders

Cleaning the church

Nursery

Help with the sound

Set up the stage

Baptism

Arrange funeral dinners

Visit those in the hospital

Prayer warriors

            The list can go on and one.   Some of these ways to serve make a big impact in our church and others don’t.   However, we must understand that to whom much is given, much is required.   Don’t hide your “talent”.  You should seek ways to serve in your local church.  It honors GOD and helps to further the kingdom of GOD.

~Sunny :D

A New Season

If you have been a regular reader of my blog you will know that I have had difficulty in my job this year.

            This is my 14^th year of teaching and I can say with full confidence that this has been the worst year ever.    My boss is very critical and demanding.    I am a very hard worker and I give 110 % everyday and yet I feel like my boss is constantly raising the bar just above what I am able to reach.   She rips me apart during my evaluations.   She nit-picks the way I keep my lesson book, my seating charts, and the way I word my objectives every time she enters my room.   She gets angry when I can’t attend after school events because of my religious obligations.  (Which I am NOT contractually required to do).   I feel abused.

            She has literally BEGGED me to stay at her school.  She tells me I am one of the best teachers she has ever had and all I can do is sit back and say: “Really?“  I am literally working myself into the ground for this women with zero appreciation.   How can I possibly be one of the best?

I am surrendering the white flag.

            I adore my students and I enjoy my co-workers but working with our principal has become impossible for me.   If I had a different principal, a more reasonable principal I would probably stay at that school until I retired.  I have learned that GOD will make a situation bad for us so we will find the courage to leave and enter into his will.   I have a peace about my decision to leave.  I know I need to go and I am praying and hoping that GOD will open the right doors.

~Sunny :D

Review: GOD is NOT DEAD (The Movie)

This movie is amazing and worth the $10 ticket.   I don’t want to spoil it for you so I will just give a quick overview.   Basically, a college student decides to challenge his atheist philosophy professor over the existence of GOD.    There are several other plotlines throughout the movie that all seem to intertwine at the very end.    The climax happens during a Newsboys concert when they sing the “GOD’s Not Dead” song.   Sometimes people need to hit rock bottom before they accept Christ.

            This movie hit close to home for me because I had similar experiences with a philosophy professor when I attended college.  I was to new to the Christian religion to really prove my point, but I tried to convince my professor that GOD was real.

I said: “What if GOD is real?  What if I am right?  It’s going to be unpleasant for you if you die and find out that we Christians are right and you spent a lifetime proving we were wrong.”

            That was nearly 14 years ago and having atheists challenge my faith has not changed. I have many atheist friends and I have similar conversations with them.  Most of them get angry with me and Christianity has become a banned topic between us.   I am allowed to talk about church, but I am not allowed to “push” my beliefs onto them.   I have been told that the closer people are to academia, the less they have faith in GOD.   Intellectual people have difficulty believing in a GOD they can’t physically measure with touch, sight or hearing.    I don’t understand how people can live in such a hopeless world when Christ is right there offering hope, love, peace and eternal happiness.

To sum up.. Watch the movie! 

~Sunny :D

Portion Control

I have been on a diet for the last 8 months.  I started the diet on my Birthday (August 8^th).  I have lost over 80 pounds and other people are beginning to notice that I look different.   The first few months were awful.     I had to give up many things I loved to eat in hopes to lose weight off of my body.  How am I doing it?  I am counting calories.   What I have found is that when I binge and go over my calories for the day I get sick.  Each day I must stay within my calorie goal, within my portion in order to continue losing weight.

            I was reading the story of the Israelites.  I read how GOD sent manna from the heavens to feed the Israelites as they wandered in the desert.  He specifically told them to only collect enough food for one day.   It was a way to show trust in GOD.   He allotted them each their daily portion. 

            Everyday GOD gives me a portion of food.  Right now it’s 1500 calories.   Going over this portion is unhealthy and will make me sick (and can be considered gluttony).  GOD wants us to wait on him to provide us with “daily” bread.  Just the Israelites were given a portion of food each day to show dependence on GOD.

“The LORD is my portion; I will wait for him” ~ Lamentations 3:22

On a side note, is it any wonder women struggle with weight, the first recorded sin in the bible happened because Eve ate something she was not supposed to..

~Sunny :D