The Queen's Journey

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019!!! 🎉 How will you make a difference in the lives of others this year? Some 2019 Tips for making a difference: (and, you don't necessarily have to "go") * Pray for and with someone 🙏 * Listen to them * Talk with them * Bible study with someone 📖 * Give/Donate monetarily * Give/Donate your possessions * Be a driver 🚗 * Share a meal * Mourn with them * Laugh with them * Give your smile, hug, compassionate touch * Discover your passion and volunteer with a charity that speaks to your heart 💗 * Bake cookies and give 🍪 And, so much more we can do and be!   BUT, most importantly... be available in heart and mind to help ease another's journey.  We all need each other. 💗 Have a GREAT 2019!! ! 🙌

  1 Thessalonians 5:16... " Rejoice always,"   JOY!  I love this!    What God is telling us is that as His children we can have a continuous joy.  This is independent of any circumstance we're going through.   People are naturally happy given certain circumstances.  But, what God's message is telling us as Believers is that we have an internal eternal joy that is constant.... even through the rain and storms of life! Why?  And, where does this joy come from?   We have this JOY because of what Christ has done for us!  Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins; and when we accept His free gift of eternal salvation, then it gives us a joy indescribable!  No matter what we're going through, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Christ is right there, going through our valleys with us!  What comfort!  What joy to know we're not alone --- EVER! I am grateful for a joy that will n...

How is "living" in gratitude accomplished?    Living in gratitude is a lifestyle.  It is something that can be learned, but does take discipline.  Try this exercise in helping you develop a grateful heart, thus, to live in gratitude.... STOP >>>> Start out for five minutes a day (and increase over time) and just stop .  Stop and close your eyes.  Empty your mind of all that is going on around you.  Dive deep within yourself, within your soul, and search for the blessings of the day.  Surely, you've had at least one in your day thus far.  Actually, you have.  You're breathing --- able to see the light of another day.  Oh, and what about your sight --- you're reading this, are you not?      So, for five minutes of your 1,440 minutes of one day, stop, dive deep, and remind yourself of the blessings not only in your day, but in your life.  And, I want you to really focus on those blessings. ...

This world is full of darkness. If we each would shine our individual lights, it would dispel that darkness!                       It doesn't take much at all to shine --- small acts of kindness work, and genuine love.  When we are all working together to better this world, a bigger impact is made.  Just as it is with the one rain drop filling the ocean; all those "one" rain drops combined together ... fills the mighty ocean!  And the same with the stars in the heavens... all the stars combined, light up the darkest of nights! Use what you have, where you are to make a difference.  It all begins in the heart, and a good place to begin is with gratitude; being thankful in all circumstances. (1 Thessalonians 5:18)  Yes, life deals us blows along our journey, but we also receive blessings.  And, it is our responsibility to open our eyes and see the light of those blessings; an...

What matters is the <<willingness>>, which is the motive of true generosity.    And this willingness -- begins in the heart .  It matters not how small a gift of giving you offer; rather, that what is offered is given from the heart.  All the wealth in the world that is given out of appearance sake, cannot out-give a poor person's heart of genuine love.  Though the widow's offering was meager, she gave out of her poverty.  Jesus commended her act of generosity -- which was from the heart. Jesus honors our willingness to genuinely love. "Jesus looked up and saw the rich  putting their gifts into  the offering box,   2  and he saw a poor widow put in two  small copper coins.    3  And he said,  “Truly, I tell you,  this poor widow has put in more than all of them.   4  For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her  poverty put in...

WHY do we have all this human destruction, dissension, and chaos? >>> Because evil hates what is good <<< Evil wants to destroy unity and conquer the world. Evil wants to devour the souls of the good and the righteous. When evil is in a person's heart, it will stop at nothing to disparage and destroy the good in our society.  Just as in the case of the very first murder in our human history.  Cain killed his brother Abel "...Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous." (1 John 3:12b) Misery does love company, and it will not stop until its boat is sinking from the weight of the souls it has claimed. Let's LOVE misery and evil out of business!!! Hug someone today and let them know they are loved! ♥ It's a matter of the Heart. (Proverbs 27:19)

As children of God, instead of shutting down streets and bridges with divisive and angry protests, use those voices, energies, and emotions in organizing prayer vigils?  Gather together in front of the police stations across this country and pray.  Gather around our youth and pray.  Go into the neighborhoods and pray.  Physically encircle the people who are angry...and pray.  There is more POWER in venting anger through prayer. Is prayer not more powerful than anger?  Is prayer not more powerful than screaming and yelling?  Screaming and yelling begets anger, does it not?  Does this form of protest accomplish anything positive?  The more powerful and effective answer to anger is kindness, gentleness, and love.  And, are these not "fruit" of the Spirit?  If we are children of God, and are to grow in maturity, then the fruit of the Spirit is our guideline.  And, nowhere in the Fruit of the Spirit is listed dissension and ...

The hope of this nation is not in gun control or building a wall or protests or the police.  It is not in our government or politicians or in our programs or in people.  The hope of this nation, and for this world, is in Christ Jesus.  If I had to build my foundation and security on the hope that people will do right and make the right choices, then my hope is built on sinking sand.  And, what kind of hope is that?  It is nothing.  So then, where does that leave me as far as feeling secure and protected.  It leaves me with a lost hope, that's where. As humans, it is innate in us to hope.  It is what propels us to live.  Hope gives us the foundation to live fearlessly.  If a person has no hope, then why even try?   And, how many times do people take their lives because they have "lost hope"?  We need hope to live. But, hope based on the ever-changing voices of this world will eventually lead to chaos because trust is lost ...